New Jersey Baby!

Last week Nealson and I enjoyed a great family vacation to the Jersey Shore! (No not where the mtv show is filmed... we were about a hundred miles south). We met my family at the SLC airport and flew into Philladelphia, PA and then drove to Atlantic City. Atlantic City is supposed to be the East Coast version of Vegas... far from. BUT we enjoyed wonderful food, fireworks, and shopping!


Here we are enjoying the famous philly pretzels and hotdogs on the boardwalk.

Atlantic City Boardwalk... Neal trying to bum a ride from the cart man.

Here I am with my mom and sister shopping before we hit the beach :)

I love him :)

Papa Broph Dawg (Johnny boy)....aka my dad- treated us all to a family friendly palm reading! The palm reader hit right on to my moms, way off on my sisters, too honest at my dads, and spilt the beans on ours. Aparently we are going to have a set of twins- boy and girl. "Yeah okay lady... we'll see."

The next morning we drove to Sea Isle City, New Jersey. The CUTEST little beach town/island filled with shops, restaraunts, and beachhouses.

This was Biggy's first family trip so we were both excited to spend some time with the "real" Brophy's.... along with our immediate family :) I think by the end of the week we had atleast 60 of them coming through. We all rented beachhouses within a block of eachother so it was a huge party all week.

Here's Mr. Nealdo on his scoot scoot... gotta love him!

My Nana and I playing with her pet bird Charlie Dickens. She doesn't know if it's male or female so instead of naming it Charles she decided Charlie is a gender nuetral name. She's in love... and I was a little freaked out. The bird sleeps in my Nan's shirt :/

GAME NIGHT! 2 things my family loves most... drinking and charades. We played ultimate charades and I about died laughing watching all of my family get so into it. Neal and I had so much fun spending time with them and making fools of ourselves trying to impersonate Big Bird.

Wow- I miss this! We would sleep in everyday, I'd down a bowl of cereal and then we'd be off to the beach! The weather was beautiful and the ocean breeze made it perfect.

Happy 4th of July! We went to my Aunt's beach house and had a huge BBQ with the family.

Here is me with my sweet cousin Mariah. She's Italian....and Irish but who can tell!?! Her father is the only one of my dads 12 siblings that didn't marry someone of Irish decent so we always call them the blacksheep... I look like a freaking orb compared to her! It was so nice to see some of my cousins this trip. I say some because there's over 30 first cousins on my dads side... crazy Irish Catholics.

Me with my sweetcheeks Neal haha After dinner we headed down to the beach to watch the fireworks. Each city put on their own so sitting on the beach you could look down the coast and see 5 different firework shows. It was the neatest experience!

Beach time baby! Heat+Humidity= sitting in the water all day long! It was way to hot to sit on the beach so everyone would pull their beach chairs up to where the water was so we could cool off. Nothing was better than being next to Neal, surrounded by family, at the beach, and enjoying a great book :)

We couldn't pass up the food the boardwalks had to offer. I think we went 3 or 4 nights because it was so amazing. Here's Neal with his favorite Salt and Vinegar fries! Mmmm...

Me, my cousins Laura and Mariah (The Italians) and my sister Stacey.

Emma (my nieces friend), My niece Aysia, Me, and my niece Jayde... why am I the same height as a 15 year old???

We had a blast with these girls! We took them to the Wildwood boarwalk which has tons of huge rides right on the piers. We took advantage of the thrills and got on as many as we could.

"Having a ball at the Jersey Shore" :)

Jayde was not too excited for the Rocket.... It was HUGE compared to lagoon's, we loved it!

This was insane. My niece convinced me to go on this catupult thing with her. I about died. It was probably 15 stories high and just flung you around in circles while your box spins. We were even in a cage, it was nuts! I had some mixed emotions during the ride... should I be laughing, crying, or sick...... in the end it was worth it. I felt like I had accomplished something. Not too big of an accomplishment though because my little niece wasn't scared at all- go figure.

Here is my sweet nephew Cy inhaling powdered sugar. It was so much fun to have him on this trip, we love him!

We got in late Saturday night and Neal's dad picked us up from the airport. Guess who was with him... OSCY!!! I may not like that little dog but it sure was good to see him after being gone for over a week! We were greeted by the rest of his family at his parents house. It was the first time since Brynlee's been born that we were able to all get together as a family :) It was so nice to see everyone, we are all spread out- St. George, DC, Virgina, SLC, and London. It's not often that we're all together in once place so we celebrated by taking our first whole family picture :)

We drove home Sunday and picked up Lenny from his sisters. We had such an amazing time and loved our vacation but we were ready to be in our own home again. :) I texted my Dad when we got into town to let him know we made it home safe. His response was..... "Good. Now Back to work, Kid"

I couldn't have said it better myself :)