Stars, Stripes, & Canoes

My baby belly at 4 months pregnito (I am almost 6 months now!). Taken on a fun day trip on May 1st to Wrightsville Beach with our friends, Dave & Lily.

Gaby ready for the Memorial Day Parade! (also in May). After our trip to Canada in May, we met up with our friends down in Atlanta, GA.

Ben, Chelsa, Kate, Johnni, Matt, & Brian...oh yes we did ride in a Memorial Day Golf Cart Parade at a lake outside of Atlanta, GA!!

Matt & Johnni's pup - Kaida - loving her boat ride :)

Our Haugen relatives who once again showered us in their southern hospitality ! We were here in August last year to celebrate Ben's graduation of Ranger School. We had such a great reunion with friends and family and are so grateful to be in touch with them all. It is neat to live on the East Coast and be able to get in touch with relatives.

One of the many obstacles that Ben & I faced on our canoe trip this weekend here on the Little Indian River in NC. We had to go over or under a lot of fallen trees. We even came upon 2 small dams! thank goodness the water wasn't moving very fast :)

We rented a canoe for the weekend! It was fun because it was something "new" for us to do around here, but exhausting at the same time! (Saturday was almost, if not, 100F!!)

Ben did most of the work getting it down those steep banks and into the water :)
We paddled for 3 hours on this little river in the bush!

The tricky part was having a vehical at both ends of our river tripping. but only one of them could carry this canoe. that meant a lot of back and forth driving. we still had fun :)

There it is! Our little-big update. For those who keep asking for my baby-belly pictures...i have more i just need to organize them on my computer and i will put them up "soon"!