Hilton Head South Carolina

After a nice long 20 hour drive we made it from San Antonio to Hilton Head South Carolina. It actually wasn't too bad... ok 20 hours is 20 hours. We left at about 9:00 Friday night and drove until around 5am. After a few hours of shut eye in a Wal Mart parking lot in Beau Bridge, Louisiana, we started off again and drove all that next day getting to Hilton Head at about 9:00 the next night. It was a bit of a bruiser but my amazing husband pushed through it and my sweet little men were troupers as well. Although it was long, doing it essentially in a day allowed us to relax and enjoy Sunday in gorgeous Hilton Head Island. We caught a 10 o'clock church meeting, and then had the rest of the day to just relax. I do love having low key Sundays.
Monday was spent getting things in order. Grocery shopping, laundry, cleaning etc while Danny hit the links. Monday night we had a fun little family barbecue and family night outside on our sweet little patio that we had at the RV resort and Jack, Patton and Danny had batting practice.

Tuesday Danny and I participated in the PGA Tour Wives Golf Classic. Pretty much the wives play in a 9 hole scramble while the guys are on the bag. We had such a blast. We were on a team with some of our good friends, Michael and Kristina Putnam, Bobby and Lauren Gates, and Scott and Jen Stallings. Did I mention we had such a blast!! So, for the record, I'm horrible. I can't think of a clever way to phrase that more delicately. Danny's face in this picture pretty much says it all. I think since I've had kids I've hit balls maybe 3 times. However I was well matched because 2 of the other girls on our team were at about my same skill level. Fortunately Lauren Gates played in college so we had our ringer. Also luckily for us they allowed us to purchase 3 mulligans each (all the money went to a local charity and to the wives association) which we did so our boys got to hit 3 shots each for us, definitely helping us out off the tee especially since we were playing from the ladies tees. Despite our incredibly low expectations we started heating up. We (the girls mind you) started making some big puts which when combined with our boys getting us to the green in one shot makes for some sweet magic.
About 3 birdies and 2 eagles into it we really started believing we could win it. We all started getting all fired up (boys included, since they're not competitive at all) and putting the heat on. Even down to the last hole we had a shot. We had about a 50 foot putt from the fringe and after being coached by Danny I stepped up and the line was perfect. Still to this day I don't know how it didn't drop. And Danny will tell you this too, it literally jumped over the hole, defying gravity. Sadly we lost by a shot but again, we had so much fun and just have some good ol' vengeance built up for next year:)

Another of our highlights of the week was taking the boys to the children's museum and the beach. We didn't get in the ocean since it was super crowded and I was by myself but we got to play in the sand and at least see the gorgeous Hilton Head shoreline. Jack rinsed off the sand by getting soaked in the fountains out by the beach. Patton wasn't so sure about it this time.

Now for the golf report. Thursday was an ok day. Danny felt a bit better about things and ended up shooting 2 over par. Not great but improvement and not too bad in comparison with the rest of the field. Friday however was a really fun day. Danny got a hole in one on the 17th par 3. Apparently the crowd went wild and gave him a standing ovation. One of those great moments that as my dad says, "keep you coming back for more". Ironically after all the rounds of golf I've watched, I wasn't there. I stayed home with the boys that morning so they could sleep in. That's all right though because there was much more where that came from. I got there on the back 9 in time to see 3 more great birdies. It was so fun getting to watch all his hard work show in his score a bit. He went on to shoot 5 under that day and it was more than enough to get him to the weekend. And even if the weekend wasn't quite what he hoped, it was so nice to have one of those days that remind him what he's really made of.
We also had a fun Easter morning with the boys. Jack was fascinated with the idea of the Easter Bunny and was so excited going to sleep Saturday night. I was trying to make sure he understood the real reason we celebrate Easter and so I was telling him the story of the crucifixion and resurrection. He really responded well and I could tell he understood it but he kept trying to figure out how the Easter Bunny fit in to all of this. I have to admit I wasn't completely sure what to tell him. I tried to tie him in to spring and new life and how Easter eggs are like the empty tomb but ultimately Jack just satisfied his own mind by stating, "mom the Easter Bunny must love Jesus". I agreed:) This picture is the boys in their new Sunday clothes brought to them by the very Christian Easter Bunny:)