Team Anders

Barefootin' @ the beach Wow, my second consecutive post about vacation...is this what retirement feels like? This going back to work thing is REALLY going to cramp my style! :) So, anyway, let me get on with it because when you pack four adults and a two and a half month baby into a car and head out on vacation there's gonna be a lot to say! Our trip started on Sunday, June 26th around 11:00 AM and was a combo family reunion/Jeff's 30th birthday pre-celebration. Mom, dad, Jeff, Easton and I packed up the Durango and headed north. This was my first experience with how much stuff is required to take a little kiddo away from home base...diapers, strollers, formula, clothes, bibs - AHHHH!!! We trucked along on I-95 N through Mass, across the border into New Hampshire and finally into Maine. Immediately over the ME border we peeled off the interstate and headed for the Route 1 - Coastal Route. A little more than an hour into the trip we arrived in York, ME - our destination...

Love this beach...yea that was a pun Jace had been encouraging me to take a quick get-away while he had some solo Daddy/Easton time (aw, sweet) so last week my friend Samantha and I headed to Clearwater Beach, FL for a 2-day/3-night vacay. To say Sam and I were overdue for a get-together would be quite the understatement...we've been best friends since USAFA and the last time we actually got to hang out was at a mutual friend's wedding in 2007! Since our last time together she's left the military for corporate America and her husband Fred have welcomed two adorable little boys, Hayden & Colton, to their family. Hayden & Colton Look at these cuties!!! I don't think I know another woman in my circle of friends that works as hard as Sam so it didn't take her very long to scream "YES" at me when I asked if she was game for a vacay! Junior year @ USAFA maybe? Regardless, I must have just finished eating!! June 2007 No little kiddos fo...