luke's first beach vacation - charleston, sc

at the end of august we took a vacation to the isle of palms, south carolina just outside of charleston. we went with our good friends, brian, katie and will bridges. you may recall them from earlier posts. luke and will are just four days apart in age. the bridges family currently lives in greenville, sc and we met them through our church small group back in 2007 while they lived here in chicago for a year. we continue to be great friends as we raise our boys miles apart.

bridges/johnson family vacation 2010.

luke and will checking out the beach. and by checking out, i mean eating the sand and scanning the sky for birds.

luke and his momma watching the waves roll in.

luke catching some hang time with daddy.

johnson. party of 3.

will and luke were each other's wingman. one of these days they'll be fighting over who is goose and who is maverick.

proudly wearing our vacation t-shirts. the back of the shirts said (vacations used to seem like...vacations). that certainly rang true as there was no sleeping in or even sleeping through the night on vacation. we were convinced the boys were scheming against us. we staged a "parents take back the control" intervention one night but it didn't quite work out in our favor. i guess there's always next year! thanks brian, katie and will for a wonderful week! looking forward to many more to come.