Back to School

Let's hope that three times is the charm - this is my third try at putting a post on for the first day of school - something makes me lose my internet connection and lose my draft. School started last week and we are in full swing already. Unfortunately, St. Ignatius seems to have caught up with the trend of excessive homework, so Bret and Virginia have been busier than usual at night. After school activities are all beginning - Bret is playing football for the first time and Virginia has a full schedule of one-hour activities - tennis, tumbling, piano, and cheerleading. Brantley is off to a great start at McGill and has signed up for track and ultimate frisbee. I'm sure his uncles will be happy to join him on the frisbee when they are in town. Since this is the 3rd try - I'm going to keep this brief - add the picture and cross my fingers.

On the Bay Again

We're back at the bay for another fun, but quick weekend. We stayed in town on Friday to have dinner with friends and then Virginia and I drove on Saturday and met Marcia and Peter to begin her week at Camp Chapman. As of today, they have cut her hair and gone to a water park- so it does not sound like she is having trouble being homesick. We did the same old thing here, so I am mainly posting to give loading pictures another try. It worked this time - don't know why it didn't before!

Bastille Day and Magi's Birthday

Happy Birthday Magi! If I can't manage to post often, I can at least use this to say Happy Birthday. I had great intentions, but my camera jammed - I've finally gotten it back working so I can post some pictures from our week at the bay. We spent ten days at the bayhouse (through July 6th). This was the longest time we've ever spent there and it was great. We know a few other families that have bayhouses and also go to school with our kids, so Bret and Virginia both managed to have several days with friends. We had a great time with the boat and swimming in the awesome pool at the Grand Hotel. I have good pictures of everyone except Brantley who ducks whenever the camera shows up.

DOCS ON THE BAY

Tuesday, July 1, 2008



I'm only half a year late, but I am making good on my resolution to start a BLOG in 2008. We are at the bayhouse for the week and I figured that I would have enough free time to spend developing our BLOG - thus, the name - Docs on the Bay. We also were finally able to obtain wireless internet service here - another motivator - it wasn't worth the effort with dial-up.



I'm primarily planning to invite family to view this site, so it will just be a summary of what our busy family is up to. We are here for the week and having so much fun that its been hard to find time to even do the blog. We made two very good purchases this year - a boat and a membership to the Grand Hotel pool and tennis courts - these have added greatly to our week at the Bay. We picked up Bret from Camp Beckwith on Saturday - he had so much fun that we called on Monday to see if it was too late to sign up for another session this summer (it was). Then we spent the day on Magnolia River on the boat with other boater friends (we didn't know that no one had invited us before because we did not have our own transportation!), and then spent the evening with Marcia & Derek and their kids, with Granddaddy and Grandma Nora. Sunday was a day of rest (and grocery shopping), then Monday we had two families over to watch the rain. Today we spent the whole day at the Grand Hotel pool with one of my friends and her two girls and niece - Virginia was in heaven and the boys managed. We had lunch by the pool, played on the beach, kayaked, had cookies at teatime and heard the cannon at 4 p.m. - this is definitely a GRAND place - after showering up, we met up at the Ravenite, a pizza parlor in Fairhope that reminded me of John's in New York! Unfortunately, Vincent had to work, but this Doc has had a great day on the bay!