Kyle+Katie & Maddie's First Beach Trip!

 This past weekend we headed to St Simons Island for Kyle and Katie's wedding and Maddie Jane's first beach trip. Thursday night we took the red eye to Miami then a short hop over to Jacksonville. Maddie Jane did AMAZINGLY well. I couldn't be happier with my little flier. 

She was a champ and slept a majority of the time. But let me tell ya, Mom and Dad didn't.. It is stressful flying and everyone is asleep and you are just waiting for your kid to start screaming. Red eyes are good in theory, but I don't know if we will take them in the future.. 

We got to SSI and headed to our beach house. Not only did Mom keep Maddie while we did wedding festivities, she rented a beach house and had it stocked with diapers, wipes and baby food. There is NO way we would be able to do this weekend without her! 

Gigi took over Maddie duty and we had some MUCH needed relaxation. Sweetwater ALL weekend long since we can't get it in Cali.

After little girl's nap we were off to the rehearsal dinner. 

Not the best picture of us.. #mamatried 

Hugo did the honors of sabering the champagne (side note: he just became a level 2 sommelier!) And we had some AMAZING low country boil with crab legs. 

The next day Maddie woke up to her twin at the beach! These two look so much alike and have the sweetest love for each other!! Beyond excited Amanda and Barrett were able to come down for his "special weekend"!

So much playing with Barrett will wear a girl out! He does so well with "Maddie Jame"!

Maddie was SO STINKIN cute in her bathing suits!! If I didn't want to eat her up already!! I mean.. 

The pool water was freezing, so we just splashed on the sides. 

  

After a nap, it was wedding time!! She did SO WELL and let Mama sit through the entire wedding without a peep.

Isn't Katie's handwriting to die for!? She made several of these for the bar menu, order of services, etc. 

  

This took SEVERAL tries (including some mid spit up shots), but we finally managed a semi decent family photo.

Man oh man I sure do love the marsh of South Georgia. How gorgeous was the sunset?? 

We were there the night they started dating at Bassnectar, and the night they got engaged in Vegas, and were BEYOND happy to be there the night they tied the knot. We sure do love this couple and cannot wait to hopefully live in the same town and do life together!

The next day it was beach time!! This little girl LOVED the water and the sand and really just being outside. She is such a happy, go with the flow baby, and we are so so thankful.  

A little naked play time is the way to her heart. 

  

Followed by some naked sleeping.. 

Sunday night we went to the Half Shell for the BEST oysters - straight from Cumberland Island. 

The next morning, we had one last beach trip before packing up the head home.

Love this fam of mine and can't wait to go back to the beach in just two weeks!! 

A little scare with our flight being delayed and worry that we would miss our connection (we may have sprinted through DFW..) But this girl handled it like a champ. Spread a blanket out and give her some toys, and she is good to go!! 

Another successful round of flights and layovers! She did SO well. I know I keep saying how well she did over and over, but this was a LOT for an (almost!) 6 month old!! We had no idea how she would react with the flights, time difference, being around a bunch of strangers. And we are just beaming with pride with our little girl!

Hope she keeps this up, because we get back on a plane for another wedding in 9 days... (I get tired just typing that!) 3 weddings in 6 weeks is a LOT. It's exhausting and holy cow is it expensive between hotel rooms, flights, luggage charges, boarding Molly, airport parking, tux rentals, dress purchases, but I wouldn't change it for the world. We love and MISS our friends so dang much, and weddings allow us to see a lot of them all together!! 

Huge shout out to my mom for making it all possible. Helping with costs and picking us up from airports all over the southeast and coming and keeping Maddie Jane during all this hoopla. WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT YOU!?