HHI Highlights—July 4th Week (Part 1/4)

We spent the week of July 4th this summer with my parents and my sister’s family in a beach house on Hilton Head Island.  This is the first vacation, away from any of our houses, that we have all enjoyed together—the first of hopefully many Slaton family reunions.  We had an amazing week full of some fun, memorable times.  The weather tried to challenge us—it stormed nearly every single day and when it wasn’t raining it was super humid or windy (all of which made taking any pictures during our vacation a challenge…you’ll notice a lot of gray skies and some foggy images)—but it didn’t seem to phase us a bit.  We just worked around it, watching the radar closely and got in beach time, pool time, a long bike ride, and some time hanging around the house together every single day.  Hilton Head Island was the perfect spot for us—we especially loved all of the bike trails within Sea Pines, where our house was—and I can’t wait to go next year (although, I do hope for better weather).  I’ve got four posts worth of collages from our week and they are a mix of images from my sister and me and, after looking through the hundreds and hundreds from our week, one thing is apparent—we both need to be better about getting in the pictures next summer.  :)
{tracy was expecting a little girl, due in november.}
{you can see just how much the weather changed within a short period of time.}


{we went on a bike ride to harbour town.  after our first bike ride of 11 people in a caravan of bikes, i thought for sure we would want to split up in the future.  but, it’s a testament to how enjoyable our week together was that none of us ever wanted to be apart.  we took many a bike ride in a long line of 11 bikes—usually with jack trailing at the end (it was readily apparent by the end of the week that he really needed a bigger bike).}