"The Beach", part 3 | The Sweet Life of Reagan, Emmy, & Max

Day 6

When Max woke up, we realized that he had been bitten on the eyelid by a mosquito and it was swelled nearly shut. It took almost 2 days for it to go down. Poor guy! This same exact thing happened to me once on vacation, but I was older. I remember wearing sunglasses to hide my eye.

Emmy was cute as a button in Rea’s Hello Kitty hat. She has the greatest expressions!

And I finally decided to take my “good camera” out with us to get a few fun shots of the kids playing in the pool. Max was quite irritated when I left him in the pool with daddy to take pictures so my time was limited to just a couple minutes.

Emmy was and has always been quite fearless. She was the first of the kids this summer to go under water, jump in, and flip! She might come up out of the water choking, but you better believe she’s gonna have a smile on her face! haha

Here’s a video of her flipping into the pool! (Make sure to turn the music off on the right sidebar of the blog before playing.)

It was amazing how the goggles changed Reagan’s activities and attitude at the pool! She was so proud of herself. 🙂

After we got in from the pool, I decided to get the girls bathed and take them out for pictures in the wildflowers. There is a little field of wildflowers that I have photographed them at during the previous two years. The flowers weren’t at their peak like they have been in the past since we vacationed later in the summer this year. Anyhow, it has just become a tradition to do this, and I couldn’t pass on the chance! Obviously, Max was counted out with his swollen eye. The light was fading quick when we got there so we worked fast and that was enough time for me to be happy.

There is a sign at the field that says, “Please pick wildflowers.” That is just our kind of wildflowers- the ones that can be picked!

Here are a few favorites-

Reagan has started trying to do serious looks during pictures, but she couldn’t stand it once I started talking about Peter Pan (her crush from Disneyworld!)…

And Day 7, our last day-

We went back to the pool to try to wear the kids out one last time before getting on the road. We, of course, made time on our way out of town to stop at the Marble Slab one last time. Marble Slab seven days in a row = guilty pleasure!