Part of Summer 2019 in South Carolina

January 8th, 2021 in Uncategorized

Our first summer in South Carolina was not spent really in South Carolina! But we at a couple weeks at the beginning and a few days at the end. While we were home we tried to fit in as much time as well could with our favorite next door neighbors ever.

Lots of swimming with Norah, they loved to pretend to be mermaids in the “cove” part of the swimming pool.

Cameron went mini golfing with Libby:

We took all the girls to a painting shop to work on painting and also some glass art.

Speaking of art, Claire and Abby would follow Bob Ross instructional videos and make their own Bob Ross creations.

Lots of movie nights at our house, these three had so much fun together but also fought like 3 sisters too!

One day we took them to an ice cream event at the Workshop in downtown Charleston. A cool place where different vendors would have food stands in and on this day it was all ice cream!

Claire, Cameron and Abby also binge watched a whole season of Stranger Things over a summer weekend as well.

We would go to trampoline parks together often and one day took them to the aquarium and fed the manta rays.

Shae & Reagan spent time with friends from church…

Reagan stayed being a cutie!

There was another stormy day at the ocean because of a hurricane blowing in and we gathered up some treasures after the storm.

A couple of times we shot down to Savannah to visit Aunt Maggie who was pregnant with baby Clara while Darren was out of the country. We always tried to bring loads and loads of food for her! And take her to do something fun, Savannah really because our favorite town out there. Paris Market & a Chocolate Torte from a certain place was always on our list to do there. One day we took her to Husk for brunch and it was incredible.

After visiting one time we timed it with hitting a drive in movie theatre on the way back home. It was the homiest, in the middle of no where, charming drive in.

Shae & Reagan went to ziplining camp and still say it was the best summer camp of their lives!

Dance camps with Creative Edge were in there too to be ready for dance team again in the fall.

Reagan’s voice teacher came to present at one of the dance camps to teach a certain thing and Reagan got to sing in front of her dance team. She was so nervous!

A library opened up under ten minutes from our house that was incredible. They had a teen section that adults could not go in. They were allowed to bring food in and rent rooms. So during the school year I would drop Abby and Cameron off there for the whole day. Over the summer we went to relax and be in a place with wonderful AC!

I had the longest list of beaches to check out while living in that area. Not one was bad or bomb, everyone of them was stunning! The girls new thing because getting junk food to eat on the beach, bringing a book and going “bobbing” which is just going out past the break and bobbing up and down.

The Condies were a family that was always so sweet to think of us on holidays and if we had someone fun to do with. On the 4th of July we learned that their dad was an EXPERT at fireworks!

Abby and Cameron would invite church friends over for girls nights, fun at the pool, escape rooms, etc. They were a fun group of girls, younger than Abby would really included and loved her when the girls her age didn’t. They were such a special group of girlies.

Over the summer I invited a group of ladies to try a new dessert place that a woman we were friends with opened up and to take a ghost tour downtown.

One of my very closest friends while living in SC was a pediatric dentist and it was the only two years of my life where my girls have LOVED going to the dentist. It was hilarious and she took such great care of them!

Shae & Reagan also took a summer camp class through the city on Traveling Around the World and had so much fun telling me about each country or region of the world they learned about when they came home.

Lastly we got some restaurant trying in over the summer, southern and BBQ food galore! I love BBQ so Cameron and Abby were good sports to try a couple of the famous ones in the area with me. We also loved anything that involved delicious biscuits.

Holy Sticks was a place someone we knew opened and the girls loved to go there and put together ice cream bar dessert creations.

Our friends the Hernandez Family came into town and let us know where the very best pizza place was in the area.

But our very favorite place that we would always go to when it was time to eat out as a family was Gypsy Cuban with the most delicious fresh Cuban food ever. And a mural in honor of Anthony Bourdain on it’s walls.