Atlantic Ocean

My first look at the Atlantic Ocean. It was a chilly and windy day. Emma was snuggled in her stroller sleeping when we saw it during the day.

On the pier taking in all of the surrounding sights.

We had to go back later so Emma could experience the ocean. Well, at least she will see a picture of when she "enjoyed" the sunset on the Atlantic Ocean.

We had a great time and it was fun to be able to spend time with our little family. Matt had a crazy October and this was his reward for working so hard. He is such a hard working guy and has a ton on his plate right now, but being able to take a long weekend away was just what we needed!

Downtown Charleston

One day we walked downtown in Charleston. The buildings were very cool and it definitely had the old town vibe with brick sidewalks and single lane streets.

Walking along the water edge downtown.

Matt loved the cotton fields everywhere.

Boone Hall Plantation, Charleston

We went to Charleston, SC for a couple of days during Matt's vacation. One of the places I wanted to see was this plantation. The Notebook was filmed here among other movies that I didn't know. It was beautiful!

Emma loved being outside this day and did so well to take it all in.

This is the Avenue of Oaks, an oak tree lined street leading up to the mansion on the plantation. It was much prettier than we can capture in a picture.

These trees are hundreds of years old and so amazing! This was one of the best places we got to see on this quick trip.

Random Cuteness

All dressed up for church. Isn't this the utmost in cute? She thought she was pretty cute too in the mirror. :)

Emma has started to giggle. It is the best sound in the world! This an "action" shot of the giggles.

She already adores her daddy! As soon as he walks in the room I am pretty much forgotten. It is adorable to see them interact together.

Halloween

This year I really wanted to find something "fallish" to have Emma experience. Since we now live in the south that proved to be more difficult than when we lived in Michigan. We found this random pumpkin patch to take a few pics and get a pumpkin for Matt to carve.

Doesn't Emma look super enthused to be doing this? She has the most sensitive skin and we put her next to some hay bales to get pics with the pumpkins and the poor thing was totally red by the time we got home...guess we won't be doing that one again.

Matt carved a cute Elmo pumpkin for Emma this year. Sadly enough, we only had one day with the pumpkin because it was rotten on the inside and smelled like something died inside of it and we couldn't stand it so we had to throw it out. It was such a pretty pumpkin on the outside!

Matt told me this was the lamest Halloween we have had so far- well, it isn't my favorite holiday to begin with and he LOVES the scary aspect where I do not! Emma can't appreciate the costume part yet anyways so we will for sure put her in one next year. That part of Halloween I can get on board with- cute and sweet little kid innocence of Halloween:)