Plague On the House of Barker & Folly Gras

The Barker Four Blog came to a screeching halt for nearly two weeks due to sickness, sickness, sickness. Chapel had pneumonia, Eli had a stomach bug (twice) and Jude ran a 104 fever for 6 days courtsey of a bacterial infection that did not respond to the first round of antibiotics. Arrggh, having sick kids is the worst. You feel so sorry for them and everything just stops until they are better. Conor, who I think is just too busy to get sick, was the only kiddo that avoided the plague (knock on wood). So thank goodness everyone is now feeling A-OK and we had the chance to enjoy a beautiful weekend on Folly Beach.

FB hosted its annual Folly Gras parade this weekend and in typical Folly fashion, it was packed full of rowdy islanders, a parade that showcased golf carts and drag queens and some good old fashioned family fun. We invited some friends of ours to join us and the kids all had a grand old time. Being well again is -----well, it's pretty awesome.

Some parade spectacles....

Eli with his doubloon.

And my favorite photo op in a long time. All of the kids sitting are mine and my friend Jen's. She also has twins. How crazy that between 2 women, we have all these kids???? People were walking by and taking pictures of this cute group. Sno Cones were the only thing that kept them still.