Thursday, July 28, 2011

Folly 2011







































One of my absolute favorite weekends of the year - Folly Beach SC!

It's absolute mayhem with alot of adults, alot of kids and alot of alcohol all in one house! We have been doing this for at least 30 years. Started off with my granddaddy and his brothers and sisters and now 4 generations later....!

We have stayed in the same beach house for the last 5 years. When I say we have stayed in the same house, that's 19 people in one house. 11 adults and 8 kids, 7 of them 7 and under! Hence all the alcohol. We usually all get in and settled Saturday night and then Sunday is Funday. We hang out on the beach ALL DAY LONG. Literally 9-9! Any and everyone is more than welcome, the more the merrier. The only reason we go inside is to either put a kid down, make lunch or refill a cooler! It's always a good time and usually ends up with fantastic pictures. I normally get to see everyone in my immediate family this day. We started the Folly pub/bar crawl last year too and always filled with good memories and laughs! We have an amazing time getting the cousins together both old and young. I wish we could see each other more than once a year. Guess it gives us time to re-coup for the next gathering:)

4th of July















Annual tradition is for the Carpenter/Barrow family to get together at Bald Head over the 4th, which also happens to be Kevin's birthday.

Unfortunately this year Kevin and his crew kept passing a nasty virus back and forth. We got to see Sean just a little bit, but not enough. But thank goodness the rest of us didn't get it! It was great getting together with everyone and the kids had a blast. It's chaotic, but a good chaos!

Mimi entered the annual golf cart parade. The theme was "Let Freedom Ring." Anna, Braxton and Brynn (along with Marie for an extra set of eyes and hands) rode along and rang bells and then in front of the judges said the Pledge of Allegiance. That was the hook, line and sinker. They won 3rd place in the Patriotic division.

As always, a great time, never long enough and can't wait for the next visit!