The Birth of Our Nephews and the Joy of Our Nieces

One of the most amazing things we experienced together was the birth of our nephews and getting to know each other's nieces. I, personally, am so excited about Mason and Ryan meeting for the first time. As a strange coincidence, Shannon's nephew Ryan was born 4 days after my nephew Mason. They will, of course, both be ring bearers at the ceremony. Best way to describe Mason is just like his dad, sneaky, always plotting and pushing the boundaries of what he can get away with. Best way to describe Ryan, the consummate people person/politician ("Hey T.J.!"). This could be a scary thing getting these two together. Just another coincidence is the fact that both our nieces will be the flower girls. Now just a little fact about the nieces and nephews, both nieces are darker complexion, brown hair and brown eyes. The nephews are both blond hair and blues eyes. We could not have planned this. This is going to be such an amazing time as our families get to meet and know one another. BTW, we get to celebrate Mason and Ryan's B-days these next two weekends. On another kind of weird, and quirky note. Shannon's niece, Nicole and my niece Rian (O.K., yet another weird coincidence) share birthdays just days apart. In fact, I share the same B-day as my niece and sister-in-law. This just has to be meant to be. I tell you one thing though, these girls can cook, both Rian and Nicole have helped me out many times making everything from sushi, to mussels and even frog legs. Both girls have no quams about cleaning shellfish. Now again with the kinda opposites, Mason will damn near eat anything, mussels and catfish and even raw onions. On the other hand Ryan is a severely finicky eater. It's amazing the diversity of these wonderful little people. You can't help but laugh. We love them so.

BTW, Shannon is on her way back from the scouting mission for all of you planning to stay on the beach. We will post something in a little bit reagarding what they found out. You may also noticed a change in the line up of hotel links to the left.

Robert

Hey! It's Shannon,
We looked at the hotels. The Molloy and Jefferson motel are a BIG no! SCARY!! The Island Inn Resort is nice. It is 1/2 mile from the beach house. There are not a lot of rooms left. The Suncoast motel was nice, but they have no rooms for that weekend. The Beachside Palms is a small motel that is adorable. It only has 5 or 6 rooms and no pool, but is very 'bed and breakfast' like. The Bilmar beach resort is 1 1/2 miles from the beach house and is really big, so there should be plenty of rooms. It is nice. We stayed there for Dana's bachelorette party. Just wanted to let y'all know what we saw!

Love, Shannon