Summerville

This past weekend we went to visit Paul's parents and brother in Summerville. We had lots of fun and both girls did great on the car ride there and back!

This was Ellie's first trip to Summerville and they had a sign waiting for her along with LOTS of flowers (which Gin-g was taking to an event).

Emmie quickly got to work in the kitchen helping GG.  She had the BEST time helping make a chocolate pie (although she said "bye bye" and quickly moved away when Ging-g pulled out the mixer...Emmie is apparently not a fan!) and washing the dishes.

Ellie was quite entertained by her Uncle Blake (aka Bake). Blake usually goes to Clemson on the weekends and goes to the game and spends time with Emily so we felt pretty special that he stayed in Summerville to hang out with the girls! Emmie had a GREAT time with Blake...he's as crazy as her daddy!

Eating at GG and Papa's is fun...they have BIG spoons! (She grabbed this off of one of the serving dishes.)

She was actually relatively successful at eating with the big spoon.

After dinner Thursday night Emmie got a bite of her chocolate pie and a scoop of ice cream.  She liked the pie but was much more into the ice cream...what can I say, she's her Mama's girl!

I got her mid sentence so she has a strange expression on her face but she was having a great time getting pampered.  GG was brushing her hair and PaPa was drying it...can we say rotten?

On Friday Gin-g, Blake, and I took Emmie to the Summerville High School football game (Fred is one of the coaches). We went last year to a game but Emmie was pretty oblivious.  This time she was much more aware and would dance when the band played and would randomly throw up her arms for "touchdown". We stayed through halftime and Emmie did great! Rita and Gerry Purvis came over and kept Ellie so that I could go to the game and I had lots of fun watching Emmie take it all in! The best part?  Summerville won 14-10!

This is the adorable bow that Gin-g found for Emmie to wear with the SHS dress I made last year (which still fits...I figure both girls can get 2 years out of it...excellent!).

Emmie and PaPa discussing football strategy.

On Saturday we took the girls (well..really Emmie...Ellie grouched through the whole thing) to the Fire Museum.  They had a big slide which Emmie loved, a fire truck simulator, lots of old fire trucks, and lots of buttons to push (one of Emmie's favorite things to do!).

Emmie climbing up the ladder to go down the slide.

She wasn't so sure about the fire truck simulator at first...it had lots of flashing lights but after a few minutes she was willing to sit in the back with PaPa and GG.