Ashley's Birthday Weekend

Ashley's Birthday is here, and there is so much to do to celebrate for this special girl, that it couldn't just be fit into one day. Here's some pictures from Ashley's Birthday Weekend....

Friday Night: PARTY ON THE BUCKETLIST!

           The first activity was a small get together on the deck of the Bucketlist. Patrick and Ashley were joined by several friends on a perfect Charleston evening to watch the sunset, listen to live music, and have some good food and drink.

No birthday is complete without cake!

boat

Of course Birthday's include beach time..... this means tired puppies.... that means photo ops!

The 3 Holmes Girls

one tired pup

"Just because we are tired doesn't mean we won't be waiting by the door to greet you when you get home!"

killer watchdog

sometimes it's sad to leave the beach

Ashley's Birthday just so happenned to coincide with the Orthodontic graduation party. This means dinner at Halls, and getting to compare baby bumps with Erin.

Lola playing 'possum' while Lucy swears she didn't knock her over!

Here's a short video of our water puppies splashing around this weekend

Father's Day in D.C.

This past weekend, Patrick and Ashley took off to D.C. for some quality family time and baby's first national capital visit! Of course no trip to D.C. would be complete without a little walk around the mall.... and no trip around the mall would be complete without stumbling on some sort of event that you never planned on witnessing.

Everyone huddled around watching the soap-box derby finals!

some italian ice refreshments hit the spot on a hot day!

Last time Ashley took her picture in front of the capital, she was on a segway, kissing Patrick.... My how things have changed!

After walking around, the real excitement came... Patrick and Ashley got to go through all of Patrick's old baby clothes.

Look at how stylish Patrick was.... He was so fashion forward that all his clothes would still look great today!

Mom "Grammy" left a little note under the lid for someday when Patrick had his own son.

Meanwhile, back at camp Fredericksburg....

Whatchyou lookin at Daddy?!?

QUICK, WHO'S WHO???

24 weeks

baby mama and the bucketlist

This weekend we were fortunate to have "BUCKETLIST" in town for a first time meeting. Fortunately, mother nature was cooperative and gave us at least 1 good day to spend near the water. Here's some pictures from Pat and Ashley's first trip on the beautiful vessel.

The crew of Bucketlist having a nice waterside meal before shipping out

Obviously no one wanted to be INSIDE on a day like today

The best one and a half mates you could ask for!

Don't leave me behind!

Even the first mate has chores to do before leaving the dock

And we're off!

baby mama always gets the  primo seating!

one of a few of the regata's that we stumbled upon

No Charleston cruise would be complete without a Dolphin sighting!

videos from the beach... swimming, chasing, playing with crabs, and all the fun that is the beach!

Morning beach runs are the best!

Some pictures of tired puppies

PAINTING IS DONE!

Okay, our recent painting/staining extravaganza is finally ready for the unveil...

Mama Ashley doing some touchup work

Painting isn't exciting for everyone!

before and after... the lighting doesn't show this one as well,  and it doesn't help that this was POST STAINING

before/after

before/after

The new shelves are finally up and functional!!!

 Of course, ample time was needed to allow the paint to dry. This means that the bedroom was off limits for a while...


Solution.... INDOOR CAMPING TRIP!

Not everyone was thrilled about being locked out of the bedroom during painting