Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Tips for vacationing with kids

Tips for vacationing with kids below. But first a few more photos for the grandparents. Here is tybee island . . .

. . . . a horse/carriage tour through savannah.



kate playing chicken with the waves
girls gearing up for their bike ride





kate riding the stick-together bike.



checking out the tractors at peach county


kate chasing ella chasing a goose near some pecan orchards . . .
TIPS for vacationing with kids:
  • 1. only plan one thing a day that you want to accomplish. the rest is gravy.

2. do not do anything that requires an attention span of over 1 hour.

3. do not plan on eating anywhere fancy. keeping kids polite in a resturant after a long day is not vacationing, it's rocket science.

4. always get a hotel with an indoor pool.

5. watch out for kids in the backseat trying to hit babies in the middle seat with pistachios: "Ten points if you get it in the mouth; five if you hit him in the head; one if you make it in the carseat."

And i guess just try to enjoy every minute cause they grow up so dang fast.

8 comments:

Young Baldwin said...

Okay on number one...GRAVY? number two correction 50 minutes (it's helpful in school when changing classes), number three it's called bribe them HELLO! number four ... no comment and number 5 *laughing to hysterically to type a reason*
Off the record, we do not "grow up so dang fast." On occasions we enjoy acting are shoe size and in my case younger.

Kathy said...

Amen!!! We only have one chance in life to be parents. Make it count, enjoy every minute because they do grow up fast. Your children are so dang cute. Poor little brother Dash, they are giving him a taste of what big sisters are for.

Sherilyn and Donovan said...

Ha, Ha, I love all of that!! I am trying to remember to just enjoy but sometimes they make it so dang hard!

Macdonalds said...

At least you were able to get out as a family, looks and sounds like fun. I'm still laughing about the pistachios!

Matt, Karin, Sienna, Sadie & Tanner said...

tip # 1: don't do it. jk

.l i c k t e e s. said...

so, would you go again? the beach would make it all worth for us!

and i guess this is what i have to look forward to. and you all wonder why you can't ever get us to visit :)

Laralyn said...

Savannah looks like fun! Matt's mom has been wanting to take us there for a while, but we just haven't made it yet. I love your tips for vacationing!

kristy said...

I read tip #5 to Payton; we both laughed out loud. Thanks for sharing :)