It was such a blessing to be able to get away with my side of the family at the beach for a few days over Labor Day weekend.  It has been nearly five years since we vacationed together!  (That is tooo long!)  It was nice to have the time together.  The kids loved it, especially.

Here’s a hermit crab Rea found.  She was all about finding sea creatures on this trip.  She found hermit crabs, lots of conch shells, and sand dollars.  We decided that we are “pro-sealife” (haha) so we put everything back except the empty conch shells.

We had daily bike rides.

These horses came right over to us.

Horses like suckers, apparently.  I’m sure this is probably not part of their diet.

One night, the boys were wanting a few minutes of peace & quiet so they invented a new quiet game for the kids.  It actually worked for a few minutes. haha

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Dancing on the lawn-

We stayed at my in-laws’ condo at Sea Brook Island.  There is a beautiful marsh area behind the development.  We went for a walk out there, and I didn’t have my phone to capture how pretty it was.  My dad did have his phone, thankfully, so he got a couple shots.

The tandem got lots of action while we were in town!

You know how Max gets attached to random objects every day.  He carried this little shovel for a couple days.  Humorous, but slightly dangerous.

A group shot (minus me & Daniel).  We were waving hello to Aunt Kay in TX!

And Max collapsed in the sun and sand by the cart- (would have made more sense to have chose the shady side)

We met this guy and some other friends one evening on a bike ride.

Here’s Papaw helping the girls find shells.  Reagan would stand out there and dig around in the sand with her toes til she found them.  She did really well, actually!

There was a guy fishing down the shore a bit.  I think he had thrown these back and they drifted right to where the kids were.  Even though they were goners, they were pretty excited about them-

Me & Bubby

Me & my momma!

Me, Aunt Mona, & Mom

It was nice to see my mom actually sit down and relax if only for a few minutes!

The boy with the awesome beach hair-

Emmy the ballet swimmer-

Here’s a video of Emmy doing her thing.  I couldn’t resist.  She just barely comes up for air and this is how she was all three days at the pool!

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Here’s Max laughing at Brycen in his car seat-

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All of her shells from the trip minus the HUGE one she found…..  I hate that I left it out of this picture.