... or this one (which is too bad b/c I love the background and the lighting - a beautiful setting)

Yeah... don't look for this in the 2008 Christmas cards

The FIRST day we got to Williamsburg, Ben woke up w/ a fever (shocking, I know). This beach trip was day 2 of our vacation and the poor guy is still running a fever. He's not so happy to be on the beach (his first trip to the ocean).

Ahh - vacation pictures! I'm going to take this nice and slow and not do too much at once (b/c I have a lot... well, a lot for ME anyway)...
We went to Williamsburg, VA for vacation and it was SO nice! We had to take a trip to Virginia Beach, of course... gotta go to the BEACH on vacation, right? Ha. Here we are before venturing out on to the beach. The sweatshirts are an indication... it was chilly! In the 50's and windy. Here's the best pic I got of all five kids. My goal was to get some good beach pictures for Christmas cards but you'll see how those turned out in a minute.