Time Keeps Flying By

I have not posted in while.  Time just seems to be moving so fast.  So far this year has been amazing.  In July, I was promoted to Office Manager.  I was so excited about this new position.  It took and still does take some getting used to.  In October, my sweet Harrison turned four years old.  When you have done Lighting McQueen and Thomas the Train how can you top that for a 4th birthday?  You load up the car and take a family road trip.  Harrison celebrated his 4th birthday in Orange Beach, AL.  He was so excited to play in the sand.  The weather was amazing and we were sad to leave.  We started out the trip by going to see Eddie's family in south Alabama.  We had a nice dinner and I got to meet everyone.  We woke up the next morning and had breakfast with Aunt Nell before heading to the beach.  It was a nice quiet drive.  We did not get to tour the U.S.S. Alabama but I have plans to do that next year.  We stayed at the Hilton Garden Inn in what they called a pool view room.  When we got to the room though, we had a beautiful view of the ocean.  We got settled in and headed to the beach.  We stayed for an hour and then we practically dragged Harrison back to the hotel so we could get some dinner.  He ate a little bit but whined to go back to the beach.  We stopped at the Pier on the way back and that made everything better.  We got to see (1) shark our first night. We had breakfast the next morning, then went to the Zoo.  Harrison got a octopus pancake for breakfast.  The Zoo was ok but I don't think we will go back.  After leaving the Zoo, we went back to the beach and stayed out there until lunch time.  We hunted sand dollars and unbroken shells.  Eddie walked out to the sandbar and Harrison went nuts.  He thought Daddy was going to get hurt.  Eddie took him out there with him (1) time and that was enough to make you scream.  He would walk up to the edge of the surf, jump and yell gittyball (cannonball).  We took Harrison to Lambert's in Foley on the eve of his birthday.  They announced his birthday over the speaker and he got a bunch of balloons.  For his birthday, he got another octopus pancake at breakfast along with a cupcake and a set of floats from the hotel.  For lunch, we ate at Lulu's and we got to sit by the canal to watch the boats.  He got a chocolate brownie with ice cream.  We spent the rest of the day at the beach until it got dark.  His request for dinner was McDonald's and since he was the birthday boy, we had McDonald's.   We made one last trip to the beach on the 3rd after breakfast and then we said goodbye.  We left Orange Beach and made our way to New Orleans.  Eddie just wanted to ride the interstate around to see the city.  What should have been a 45 minute ride took two hours.  We arrived in McComb, MS that night and ate at the Golden Corral.  We finished up our trip by stopping at Pawpaw and Granny's before heading back home.  We had a first great trip to the beach and we cannot wait to go back next year.  I told Harrison that we were going to the mountains next years.  His response was "Mom we can't go to the mountains, they don't have a beach."  I love that little fellow.