Annual Lightbody-Kenney Vacation!

Ok, let me give our history first! Steph (the Mommy Kenney) and I met in first grade and have been best friends ever since. We both started dating our husbands in high school. Although they went to different high schools then us, they went to the same high school as each other. They knew each other, but did not really consider each other friends until the double dating started. Ever since then they have been best friends. Since we were allowed to go on vacations alone, lol, we tried to go on some sort of vacation each summer together. Since being young, we would always go North and go camping to make it cheap, but always fun! Once the kids came along (our firsts, Cameron and Ashlyn, are a month apart and the seconds, Avery and Bryce, are 2 weeks apart) we decided we needed actual housing! Since then, we have used my parents Cape House on a weekend when no one else is around, to give us free range of the house so the kids could be there loud, obnoxious selves without annoying anyone but us!

So this weekend was our annual vacation (we need to think up a funky name for this!) Our family got down first on Friday. The Little's got a little bit of bonding while doing tummy time before we went shopping for some staples. Cam just loves to entertain his Sissy!

Once the Kenney's got down, we had a cookout, with some healthy food!! Chicken kabobs, rice and squash! This is not the norm for us! Soooo, after that we all went out for ice cream at the creamery nearby. I don't think the babies were to jealous of there big siblings. They were so enthralled with their friends moms! We were standing in front of our own baby's stroller and Avery was staring at Steph and Bryce at me. It was soo cute!

And of course, Cam and Ashlyn made messes of themselves while gobbling up their strawberry ice cream.

The next day we packed up (alot of stuff!) and went to the beach. The kids had a blast!! They loved "swimming" on their own, but were obsessed with these blow up floaties!! Cam called it his Jet Ski and made motor noises the whole time. Bryce is a little bigger then Avery and has the sitting up on her own concept down pat, so she sat on the shore line and played in the mud and water for awhile. Of course, once Avery got the sound of the waves and the feeling of the wind, she was out cold for alot of the time. Fine for me, but I didn't get much playing with Cameron time in!

Once she did wake up, we put her in her Bumbo and they played together for a bit. Bryce will grab at anything now, and in another picture she's grabbing the hat off of Avery's head! To cute! We are starting the friendship early!

After the house we drove into Falmouth and went into some of the little shops that line the main road. Back at the house for dinner, I just tried to get a cutesy pic of each of the Little's.

She was dying laughing at something

Bryce looks just like her Daddy

Ashlyn and Cam were having story time

They love each other.

The next day, we weren't sure how the weather was going to play out so we stayed around the house for a bit then decided to drive to Woods Hole in Falmouth and go to this little aquarium and out to lunch.

Mom's with our babies

Already starting to play with each other.

Walking to the aquarium.

No Strollers allowed inside!

In there new Cape Cod sweat shirts

Comfy in her Baby Bijorn.

Ash and Justin on the pier.

The Lightbody Fam. The best one I could get. All the others, Cameron is being his hyper self and playing drums on Marks head!

Lunch time!! Sea food!!!

So that was our weekend! May not seem like a ton of stuff to everyone, but everything went great (except for the traffic on the way home from Woods Hole. There was this HUGE road race going on that we had no idea of and of course, we got stuck in the traffic for a looooong time!!) The kids were great, it was a relaxing, bonding time that we haven't had a while and reminded me how much I love the Kenney family. Steph, Justin and both of their kids are our family with a different last name. I would do anything for them and would melt without them. Even though we see them alot at home, I hope this annual vacation continues through the years with the kids. Fun, far away vacations at some point and then again, once the kids are big enough to be left alone, vacations without the kids with us. Maybe we will feel like teenagers again, sitting around a campfire, drinking alcohol (although we will be very legal to drink then!) and laughing hysterically at nothing. Hopefully only one thing will be different: we will be missing our kids. They say everything changes once the children come. But it doesn't have to. In our lives, our best friends have, and always will stay the same.