{"id":10837,"date":"2010-07-25T11:47:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T16:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/?p=10837"},"modified":"2010-07-25T11:47:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T16:47:19","slug":"the-fastest-week-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/the-fastest-week-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fastest Week of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10838\" title=\"wavepolaroidfb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/wavepolaroidfb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/wavepolaroidfb.jpg 608w, https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/wavepolaroidfb-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/wavepolaroidfb-600x420.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/wavepolaroidfb-400x280.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are back!!  From a WONDERFUL, FABULOUS week at the beach.  I LOVE this week.  I look forward to it every year.  I love being with Mak and CB on the beach, living with my nephew and nieces, and catching up with my cousins from California and Tennessee.  I also enjoy having NO internet, even though the poor blog does suffer a bit.  We had thirteen people in our beach house and at least 5 of us came home sick, which is why I&#8217;m sitting at home catching the blog up instead of being at church.  Even with the sickness, though, it was perfect.  We took a bazillion photos&#8230;I&#8217;ll share a few here and put them all up on facebook.  Oh, and Collin bought himself a fun new toy&#8230;an underwater camera (which is how he captured that wave photograph&#8230;I love that one!).  So the kids had my camera pointed at them on the beach and Collin&#8217;s pointed at them in the water.  I wonder if the kids in our family feel like celebrities being stalked by paparazzi?  \ud83d\ude09  Poor things.<\/p>\n<p>Day 1 was SUPER windy and rainy.  Not a great beach day, but they still had fun.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10839\" title=\"IMG_0151fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0151fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Look at that hair!!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10840\" title=\"IMG_0153fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0153fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10841\" title=\"IMG_0166fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0166fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10842\" title=\"IMG_0174fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0174fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I want to pack my California cousins up and move them in with us.  SERIOUSLY.  They are AMAZING with my kids.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10843\" title=\"IMG_0179fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0179fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10844\" title=\"IMG_0182fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0182fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10845\" title=\"IMG_0184fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0184fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oh, how CUTE is my niece?!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10846\" title=\"IMG_0197fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0197fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Day 2&#8230;Friends came!!!  And we had much better weather!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10847\" title=\"IMG_0240fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0240fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10848\" title=\"IMG_0257fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0257fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10849\" title=\"IMG_0279fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0279fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10850\" title=\"IMG_0284fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0284fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10851\" title=\"IMG_0313fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0313fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10852\" title=\"IMG_0339fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0339fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One afternoon all of the guys kayaked down to the point.  I wasn&#8217;t there but I think they had a pretty great time.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10853\" title=\"IMG_0399fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0399fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10854\" title=\"IMG_0418fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0418fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10855\" title=\"IMG_0423fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0423fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I LOVE this funny kid of mine. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10856\" title=\"IMG_0445fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0445fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One night Collin did a portrait session for Reeves and Rebecca and Andrew and Erin (will share those soon!).  As you probably know, bribery is a necessary part of photographing family members.  So as a reward, Collin, Reeves and I took the three bigs (Mak, Tal and CB) to the arcade.  Or &#8220;RK&#8221; as they call it.  They loved it, we tolerated it.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10861\" title=\"20100719_9999_98fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100719_9999_98fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10857\" title=\"20100719_9999_9fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100719_9999_9fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10858\" title=\"20100719_9999_34fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100719_9999_34fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10859\" title=\"20100719_9999_48fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100719_9999_48fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10860\" title=\"20100719_9999_57fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100719_9999_57fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10862\" title=\"20100719_9999_67fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100719_9999_67fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10863\" title=\"20100719_9999_74fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100719_9999_74fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10864\" title=\"20100719_9999_87fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100719_9999_87fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10865\" title=\"20100719_9999_88fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100719_9999_88fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like thinking about how much money we spent on two teeny bouncy balls and a 5 inch snake.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10866\" title=\"20100719_9999_130fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100719_9999_130fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8230;More Friends!!  YAY!!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10867\" title=\"20100721_9999_5fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100721_9999_5fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10868\" title=\"20100721_9999_47fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100721_9999_47fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10869\" title=\"20100721_9999_21fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100721_9999_21fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Caroline&#8217;s beach hair&#8230;LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!  Oh my Gracious, she is CUTE!!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10870\" title=\"20100721_9999_28fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100721_9999_28fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10871\" title=\"20100721_9999_53fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100721_9999_53fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See?  Collin and his new toy.  I think it&#8217;s his favorite thing right now.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10872\" title=\"20100721_9999_58fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100721_9999_58fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CB was SO Happy to have another big girl to play with!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10873\" title=\"20100721_9999_64fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100721_9999_64fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ahhhh&#8230;the fish.  Tal caught it down at the dock.  He played with it down there for about ten minutes before deciding that Mak needed to see it.  So he brought it up to the house.  He let Mak poke it in the gills for a bit.  They discussed the option of eating it for  supper but eventually decided to set it free back in the water so it could live.  By this point it had been out of the water for about 20 minutes.  Ummm&#8230;yeah.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10874\" title=\"20100722_9999_1fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_1fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10875\" title=\"20100722_9999_5fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_5fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meet our daughter, Cindy Brady.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10876\" title=\"20100722_9999_8fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_8fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love that he still looks small in the great big dunes.  But he turned 6 and a half on this trip.  WOW.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10877\" title=\"20100722_9999_9fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_9fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Miss CB was enthralled with seaweed this week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10878\" title=\"20100722_9999_12fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_12fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10879\" title=\"20100722_9999_17fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_17fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe how much this sweet girl has changed since we were here at Spring Break!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10880\" title=\"20100722_9999_24fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_24fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10881\" title=\"20100722_9999_36fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_36fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10882\" title=\"20100722_9999_43fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_43fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Love the cousin love!!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10883\" title=\"20100722_9999_54fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_54fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10885\" title=\"20100722_9999_67fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_67fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10886\" title=\"20100722_9999_94fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_94fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10887\" title=\"20100722_9999_96fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_96fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10888\" title=\"20100722_9999_106fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_106fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First official surfing (umm&#8230;boogy board.  but he calls it surfing.) accident.  A wave hit him and sent him crashing into the ocean floor.  After he realized he was okay he thought the blood was pretty cool.  \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10889\" title=\"20100722_9999_108fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_108fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10890\" title=\"20100722_9999_122fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_122fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mmmmm&#8230;SC Seafood.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10891\" title=\"20100722_9999_178fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_178fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10892\" title=\"20100722_9999_166fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_166fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10893\" title=\"20100722_9999_187fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_187fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10894\" title=\"20100722_9999_193fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_193fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10895\" title=\"20100722_9999_196fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_196fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10896\" title=\"20100722_9999_156fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_156fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Putt-Putt!!!  It was Tal&#8217;s first time playing.  They don&#8217;t exactly &#8220;get&#8221; the game but they sure are fun to watch.  CB and Tal kept calling the clubs rackets.   They played like it was hockey more than golf.  They thought whoever was the fastest was the winner.  They smoked the Daddies.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10897\" title=\"20100722_9999_219fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_219fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10898\" title=\"20100722_9999_220fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_220fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10899\" title=\"20100722_9999_234fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_234fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10900\" title=\"20100722_9999_246fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_246fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10901\" title=\"20100722_9999_278fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_278fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Clearly, the are the BEST.  EVER.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10902\" title=\"20100722_9999_285fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100722_9999_285fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And, finally, the last beach day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10903\" title=\"20100723_9999_7fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100723_9999_7fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10904\" title=\"20100723_9999_3fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100723_9999_3fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is her happy place.  She spends hours running from sand to ocean.  I get exhausted watching her.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10905\" title=\"20100723_9999_15fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100723_9999_15fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10914\" title=\"20100723_9999_63fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100723_9999_63fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10906\" title=\"20100723_9999_19fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100723_9999_19fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Poor Sweet Caroline.  She was so fussy this day and we just didn&#8217;t get it.  Turns out she was getting a molar AND getting sick.  \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10907\" title=\"20100723_9999_23fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100723_9999_23fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10908\" title=\"20100723_9999_27fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100723_9999_27fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bocce Ball!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10910\" title=\"20100723_9999_52fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100723_9999_52fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10911\" title=\"20100723_9999_55fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100723_9999_55fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tess kept stealing the balls. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10909\" title=\"20100723_9999_40fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100723_9999_40fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mak tried to keep her from taking one and she bit him on the finger.  Girly gets what girly wants!!  HAHA!!!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10912\" title=\"20100723_9999_46fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100723_9999_46fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10913\" title=\"20100723_9999_67fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/20100723_9999_67fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10915\" title=\"IMG_0494fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0494fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10916\" title=\"IMG_0496fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0496fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10917\" title=\"IMG_0613fb\" src=\"https:\/\/cmsmithportraits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0613fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was Wonderful.  We are so happy to be back but also already looking forward to next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are back!! From a WONDERFUL, FABULOUS week at the beach. I LOVE this week. I look forward to it every year. I love being with Mak and CB on the beach, living with my nephew and nieces, and catching up with my cousins from California and Tennessee. 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