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It's Over

Well my friends, I loved having this place of safety! I am going to start back blogging at Whittakerwoman.typepad.com It has been a great break thank you!  I love all of you! Thank you so much for giving me this place for the summer! It may be a yearly thing so don't loose those passwords! :) Love you H

Tybee Island

Once we were done with the Refuge place we headed through Savannah to Tybee Isand. We crossed this bridge, you would have thought we were at Disneyland with the screams that happened in the car. I got this picture. I like it because it makes an H. 

We got to the Island and it was HOT. That is still a big difference that I am not getting use to here on the East Coast. It is nasty at the beach vs cool and warm like in Cali. 

We still had fun! 

I love that my kids love each other, they play so well together! 

This just melts my heart. I just looked up and saw their love for one another! 

SWEET!

We had some time in the water to play. 

It was a great day. Miss my man, but it is nice not to be at home! H

Savannah

Carlos had to travel and with summer vacation coming to the end, I thought I would take advantage of our free time and visit my cousin. We headed to Savannah which is only 4 hours away. I am terribly embarrassed to say I have had family so close and not seen them once since moving to GA. So we took the plunge and headed this way. 

We had a great day exploring the local flare. The first and best part of our day started at this Wildlife Refuge. It was literally this turn off onto a gravel road that lead you into the wetlands of Savannah. It was so amazing to see nature in it's natural setting. Imagine that. 

Right away we stopped and found a friend. He was far away, but as soon as we got out of the car he decided to take a chance in hopes of getting a meal... 

Sohaila was so afraid Losiah was going to slip. 

The road lead us through some great landscape. We have never experienced anything like it, except when we would go on the Pirates ride at Disney. 

We got out some, but this was most of the ride...

We loved it. 

I just love seeing nature as God intended it. 

We were not half way done when Sohaila was asking... Mom can we come back here? 

That's a good sign that they liked it too! H

Thanks

Just wanted to say thanks not having any expectations of me on this blog. I love it. Hope you are all well! H

B-day Love

It was my b-day this past week and my man knew my heart. I did not want another gift that I would forget by next year. I wanted something that came from the heart. It's been 9 1/2 years that we have been married and for the past 9 1/2 years I have been asking for our wedding footage to be put into a quick movie. So to my surprise he worked hard and made this for me. I love it! I love my man.

This was his post from his blog... 

A Ragamuffin Wedding

Posted on 17. Jul, 2009 by loswhit.

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So Heather turned 31 yesterday.
She married me when she was 22.
Do the math.
Our wedding has been on mini DV tapes sitting in the closet.
Like 5 hours of footage.
So I finally made her a recap.
You probably will only enjoy this if you love us on a scale of 1-10 around a 7.
Otherwise it will bore the crap out of you.
But there are some twitter appearences by @double3, @brianhaleyeah, @trying2lead, @PastorMattBrown, and lots of @sandalschurch OG’s.
And yes. The unity candle. When I was supposed to grab Heathers and blow it out, I thought she wanted me to unite the flames.
Ooooops.

Wow…
Happy Birthday babe.
We are old.
Los

B-day Love

I Hit A Wall!

I never imagined the kind of impact I would feel after 3 weeks of love. It was so wonderful to watch my kids build relationships with those who are so dear to me. I became a kid again as I lived life through my kids, experiencing the beach, the mountains, the simple things of Cali. I had the best time.

One of my bff's from High School was home the same time I was! It was so great to hang out!

We visited Nannan!

Had some swim time with my sister and her family.

It was day 13 of 21 and I hit a wall. I finally made it back down to So Cal after a whirl wind trip in Fresno... and then I hit the wall. I was in a ZONE. Or you can say I was zoning out! I crawled into a cave for a couple of days and came back out just before we left. We are home safe and sound! I am so excited to get things back in swing! We have been gone 57 days of the past 98 days! Wow! No wonder i want to just sit on my couch!

Here are some of my favorite pictures...

We had such a great time! H

The Scrapbook

Blogging is a scrapbook right? A place to record moments and milestones. Well this is one for you...

Sohaila's first experience with a true back country outhouse... 

She had to go so bad... I told her not to look

She did not obey! 

We spent a good 15 minutes just talking her into sitting down! 

H

Day 9

Ahh, there is nothing like waking up in the mountains! Today was the day to see if my girls had my heart. It was HIKE DAY! They were going to have a Whittaker Test. 

They loved the accessories! :) 

What they did not know is that the way Mama learned to hike was with no trail, no map, just straight up the mountain. 

The real deal! 

I wish the pictures did what they did justice. They climbed some rock walls that I needed help with! 

But they made it!

We hiked all the that way! I was beaming! 

Then it was time to go down. More bouldering! 

There were many places that we could of just picked up the girls and get them down. Papa would have nothing of that. He taught them about stairs, the crab walk and the spiderman climb. He made them do everything themselves. Just like I did when I was their age. 

There was plenty of whining and crying. Hey they are girls but they did it!

There was even the realization by B that Papa could easily just carry her down. Here they were having a "discussion" about it. She was refusing to climb down when all he had to do was lift her down. Two stubborn heads!

Oh I could not have asked for a better Birthday present then my girls hiking with me in my mountains. I am so full! H

Day 7, 8

Day 7 happened with no pictures... a little shopping, lunch with mom, a little play time with Jacinda, dinner with the Whittakers, and finally we ended up at my parents. The next morning we packed up the camper and headed up into my mountains. 

Day 8...

We ended up at Ward lake, a small lake right off of Florence Lake which is on the John Muir Trail, one of my life's dreams is to hike JMT! For now Ward Lake will do! 

We even got our favorite campsite there! 

The day was full of camping things... Uno

Critter hunting!

Papa went in the water right by the snake... We thought he was crazy! 

We then headed up to to Florence Lake. People can't tell me that Georgia has mountains, I have not seen anything like this in GA. 

It was so beautiful I took about 300 pictures. I will spare you and share a few with you! 

This is how you know when you are a child, this water was snow not to long ago and she is swimming in it. You could not pay me to get in this water!

I could have parked myself here oh, lets just say...  for the next 40 years! 

We headed back to camp. This is a one lane road. It can get quite tricky when cars need to pass each other! 

My mom was so funny, she was freaked out when driving along the side of a cliff. She would read a magazine and not look up. 

The picture is blurry but it shows how amazing the campsite is! 

And like any camping trip we ended with marshmallows! 

Or should I say charcoal! 

H