Austins Visit and 1st Birthday

Austin's and Grandma Visit Charleston

Chris, Melinda (Grandma Tossey), Gavin and Laura Austin

on Market Street on Downtown Charleston

We were so excited to have the Austins and Grandma here for a couple days!

They got in Monday night and stayed till Wednesday morning.

30th July 2012

 Just having play time with Dad/Uncle Aaron! He's always so fun.

 31st July 2012

 Jax's 1st Birthday Celebration

Jax's Birthday is really on the 18th of August but we wanted to celebrate it when family was here. So after a long day of the beach, downtown, shopping and basketball we squeezed in some birthday cake and presents, and Jax was so good, even though he was so worn out!

 Aunt Laura and Uncle Chris spoiled Jax with this Tire-Toy-Tube and a "tool set." He ablosulty loves them, thanks Austins!

 Gavin liked them too! =)

And of course the cake!!!

17th August 2012

Great Grandma & Grandpa Hoer sent Jax his first brithday card! Thanks to his Great Grandma, Grandpa and Grandma Tossey Jax has already started his mission fund.

Summer

21 July 2012

 Jax loves being outside! If it's just walking around or in the water he doesn't care, so long as he has free rein! At the beach he will just keep walking strait out into the ocean if you let him.

23 July 2012

So Aaron, Jax, Christopher (a boy I've started babysitting) and I were all out for a walk and we turn just in time to see this car drive off the road! Aaron quickly ran over to see if anyone was hurt, but the guy was able to step out of the car, apparently he had fallen asleep! Aaron actually yanked the horn out of the car after it had been blaring for 10-20 mins. This picture was actually taken from our back patio screen.

Aaron and I are...let just say less thrilled with the drivers and roads in SC.

• There are no street signs and if there are, they are not were you can utilize them while driving. example: after the turn the sign tells you what you need to know or on a part of the street you can't read.
• A lot of the roads are in really bad need of repair. Example: there are waves (~)in the road, and potholes all down our road.
• Left turn only lanes. So this you wouldn't think anything is wrong with this right, right...until you've got 7-10 cars backed up because one person wants to go strait, why don't they have a right turn only lane and the straits and lefts can wait for the light? Normally this wouldn't bother me but they're here a lot and it just doesn't make sense...
• Tailgaters....so this is getting more and more common everywhere but it makes us miss when it wasn't so common.
• Blinkers....idk if people from SC know what they are.
• So idk what you call them, but I call it the suicide lane, you know the lane down the middle of the road were people turn coming from either direction. Well here people us it as a parking spot, driving lane, whatever! it amazed me that a cop will pull someone over and ticket them in this lane!
• We were also told that this state has the most uninsured drivers or people driving without a license by and Allstate agent

Please don't miss understand my post... we really do love being here. We've enjoyed the 

• warm weather
• beaches
• lakes
• history, historic sights, museams
• our ward
• our callings
• our condo
• friends
• access to so many different activites!

I could keep going but we are continually discovering the different things to do around Charleston