Crescent Keyes in North Myrtle Beach! (Apr 5-9=Days 1-5)

We just got back from a FABULOUS trip to Myrtle Beach with Josh's family! (It's only an hour away from us in case anyone ever wants to break their trip to the beach at our house in Florence!) We stayed in a condo at Crescent Keyes in North Myrtle and it was so fantastic! 12th floor corner unit with 4 bedrooms and 3 baths, a balcony and an AWESOME view right on the beach! Indoor pool, outdoor pools, hot tubs and a lazy river! I have to split the trip into different posts, because it's just way too much to do at once! So here we go! Josh's parents and sister, Alison's family (including Alison, Ryan and their 4 sons) came in from Greenville just in time for the first session of General Conference (a satellite broadcast from Salt Lake City we have twice a year where we get to hear all of our church leaders speak to us.) This was a special conference, because as many of you know, our prophet, President Gordon B. Hinckley, passed away a few months ago and we were able to sustain a new prophet, President Thomas S. Monson during this Conference. It was a very special opportunity and I am so glad that we took the time away from packing and getting ready for the beach to watch this session as a family and stand together to sustain our beloved prophet!

So then we drove for a little over an hour in the pouring rain to Myrtle Beach! It was still very cloudy and a little chilly by the time we got there, but most of us headed out the front door of the building that evening and went to the ocean!

Sunday, we set up the laptop with speakers and watched the rest of Conference, and even though we walked on the beach, I don't think anyone went swimming--or maybe they did. I'm not sure! But we definitely went the next day to the indoor pool. It was really too cold in the outdoor pools, even though some went on the lazy river! Here's a pic of Abby jumping to Dad in the pool!

Josh's brother, Jake, and his wife, Nadia joined us that day and that night, we went to Fuddrucker's for dinner and to the famous Painter's Ice Cream for dessert, where we consequently went almost every day after that until we left (Chocolate Almond-Numnum!)! Here's Noah and Abby in the car on the way to dinner!

I don't know why I don't have any pictures from Apr 8, but on the 9th, Abby and I headed to the ocean by ourselves for a little while, before everyone else joined us! It was so fun to spend time together-she LOVES the sand and shells! And she is, of course, a crazy funny kid, as you can see!

We spent most of that day at the beach and in the hot tub. (Not me, though! The water was WAY too hot for my pregnant self!) Abby enjoyed it, though and so did her buddy cousins, Will and Sam (Alison and Ryan's two youngest-Will is 9 mos older than Abby and Sam is 9 mos younger!)

Okay, so that's it for Days 1-5. Days 6-8 were definitely less low-key! Jake and Nadia had left, but Josh's sister Heidi and her family (including Heidi, Aarron, their 3 girls and 1 baby boy!) came for the rest of the week...it was a GREAT time!.....