2014 Florida Vacation – Recap #3

I’m going to wrap up our vacation recap and then I’ll share a post with some photos we took on the beach. Reed never fails to make us laugh, and was in rare form at the beach, sporting Ava’s beach hat and crawling into the giant mesh bag my mom had to carry things back and forth!  

One day I was laying on a beach towel and both kids said they wanted to come and lay down with me. These are such sweet kiddos.        

We had a fun filled last day at the beach. We pretty much stayed at the beach the whole day!!! We didn’t go up to the condo for lunch – instead I went up and made our lunch and brought it to the beach. It was so fun and the kids enjoyed it so much. They both even took naps on the beach!  

Our nice guy who drilled the umbrella holes let the kids drill holes in the sand the last day! Reed was shy about it and didn’t want to and Ava jumped up and said “I want to do it!” 

Reed got over his shyness and drilled a couple holes!  

The kids really had fun eating their lunch on the beach!!

 

We actually had to wake Reed up from his nap – he was sound asleep!

This is one of my favorite pictures of the entire week!

 

 

As much as the kids loved the beach, they LOVED the pool. We would be at the beach and they would ask all day long if we could go to the pool. We ended our last day with some pool fun!  

We had such a fun week. I’m so grateful we got to take the kids and spend a week away at the beach. It was a much needed vacation and I hope that they will hold these memories with them forever!!!

2014 Florida Vacation – Recap #2

 

So the cabana boy who put out beach chairs and umbrellas for people to rent had a very long drill to drill deep in the sand so the umbrellas wouldn’t fly away. He drilled holes for us each day since we had our own umbrellas. My dad told him one day how much Reed loved drills and he asked Reed if he wanted to drill a hole. Reed was SUPER shy and hesitant at first but was so happy he got to do it!

Tuesday was a rainy day. We just didn’t have much luck out on the beach during the day, but later that afternoon/evening, the rain was gone and we spent a few hours on the beach. It was SO nice down there and the kids LOVED that we didn’t have to apply sunscreen. Reed didn’t want to take any time to take a pictures so he pulled his pouty face out!

Then we tried to trick him by telling him he couldn’t do the best smile. Of course Ava had to give it a shot too!

Oh, finally! There’s a good one!!   

Reed thought it was funny to be buried in the sand!

And to pretend to be asleep in the chair!

Even though they love the beach, all kids love the pool!!   I think that’s enough for today! I’ll be back soon with more!!

2014 Florida Vacation – Recap #1

Wow. Long time, no blog. I love this blog space for many reasons – I love the memory book it is for our family, and I love sharing our life. However, I’m struggling where I’m going to be going with it for several reasons. The main reason is time – I just don’t seem to have much time to devote to it anymore. I’m also debating a change to taking it private. I don’t have a huge traffic flow but with some social media concerns, I’m just not sure where this little ole blog will end up.

We have been BUSY the past month, mainly at work, working like crazy to get ready to be gone for a week of vacation. We just spent a week in Florida and it was glorious. It was so nice to be lazy and not worry about anything. I took time away from everything and it was so nice.

We didn’t do anything special there – we just sat on the beach and relaxed! Zach did play a couple rounds of golf, but we were just beach bums!

Things were a little crazy Monday – a man staying in our condo got bit by a shark! He was out about 75 yards bait fishing and got bit on the foot! Eeek! He was okay and not seriously harmed but we were a little on guard the rest of the week!

On the way there, Reed was SO excited to ride through the tunnel in Mobile! So adorable, that kid.

Ava cracked me up that first morning. We were waiting to get into our condo and she enjoyed the hotel breakfast with a cup of hot chocolate.

My first view of paradise for the week!

The kids were EXCITED to play on the beach. They absolutely loved it.  

We went to have frozen yogurt one night and they loved getting to pick out all the stuff to put in their cups.

Just some more random memories!