Kendra and her WiLd ChiLd~part 1

My youngest sister Kendra brought her little guy Casen to visit for a week.  I was so excited to have them come and see us.  It was our first official week of summer, so it was a great way to start it off!!!

Taylor was at cub scout day camp, so Maddie and I took them to do a little site-seeing.

We started off in Smithfield.  It's a quaint little town just up the road from us.  Have you seen the Smithfield Ham commercials with Paula Dean?  That's the Smithfield we're talking about.  It has the cutest downtown area, with antique shops, cafe's, and beautiful historic homes.



After our visit to Smithfield, we picked Taylor up from camp and headed to the pool to cool off before dinner.  When the kids were getting out the car, Taylor and Casen were playing around and somehow Taylor hit his knee on something (either a booster seat or something?) and literally split it wide open about 2 1/2 inches...it was bad!  After some scrambling for towels and realizing I didn't know which ER to take him too...we were on our way to the hospital.  I will spare you the gory cell phone pictures, but he ended up with 7 stitches...Awesome way to start off the summer!  He was a trooper though, and even finished his week at day camp!

While Taylor was off to his last day of camp, Kendra and I sneaked off to the beach...

I went exploring to find a less populated beach...we found the perfect place.  It was a little farther, but worth it!

It was a perfect day, and the kids loved it!

On our way home, there were a few farmer's market's with home grown fruits and veggies...I had to stop, especially since it's corn on the cob season!  They also were selling fresh blue crabs!  They let the kids pick them and hold them, they thought that was pretty cool!



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