Without further procrastination... the beach

We spent last week in Destin with M's side of the family.

Amazingly enough, we never saw oil. Exhibit A: Day 1

We spent the first 3 days playing on the beach in the mornings.  J was a natural.

Note: J had a run in with some carpet (or possibly a duck) at VBS, some pictures you can see the scrape on his nose, some you can't.

Hydrate.

Someday we can tell Baby Girl that she was there, too...

A few of the four of us...

Dada...

is.

so.

fun.

What kind of beach trip would this be if the baby didn't get put in a sand hole?

Or play in the surf...

We took Wednesday "off" from the beach and that was the day tar balls rolled in.  When we walked down there on Thursday it was as clean as 2009.  So, while they may have caused it, at least BP is cleaning it.  For our toddler and unborn child's sake we called it quits on playing in the ocean at that point.  That's okay, J loves the pool.

I really only took my "nice" camera to the beach (or anywhere) that first morning when we headed to the beach at 7:30am.  Didn't really want to mess with it beyond that.  Which explains why we have no pictures of anyone else, and no pictures of anyone showered.  My mother-in-law got some fun shots of everyone at the pool, and I'm sure my sister-in-law, Mary Lindsey, will have a fun post coming up.  I did get some video on my iphone of M and Uncle Chris' stupendous sand castle/ball ramp.  For the kids, of course.

Thanks Momo and Popo for a great trip!!!