Trip to the Beach



Worn out and wind burned


In July, we took a very much needed family vacation to the beach.  We had so much fun and lucked out weather wise as far as no rain.  We tried to fly kites at the beach briefly for about an hour one day, but the wind was so strong that it kept ripping the kites out of our hands so we finally bagged it.  The kids had a blast riding bikes and swimming.  Finley turned into a little fish and swam with her life jacket on all by herself.  Last summer, she would freak out if we took her out into the water and wanted nothing to do with it.  This time she swam and jumped in to Tom over and over and over again and cried every time we had to get out.  I couldn't get pictures of them swimming because my camera kept fogging up, but they also loved the hot tub!  When we got home, we set our tent up on our dock and camped out there for 2 nights.  We took turns, one night Tom slept out there with the kids and I slept in the house with Cooper since it was too cold.  The next night I slept outside with the kids and he slept inside and came down to get me when Coop needed to eat.  We had fires and roasted hot dogs and marsh mellows and had a really good time.  The kids just devoured Tom.  They swam with him nonstop and it was so fun to watch.  Tom picked me up and dumped me in the lake with all my clothes on and the kids thought it was the most hilarious thing they had ever witnessed!  So, I swam the whole rest of the afternoon with my clothes on and we had a blast.  Looking forward to doing it again.  Fun memories to make!