Beach 2015

 

Ben, John Brooks, Bo and I went to Cinnamon Beach for a week this summer. We were accompanied by our niece Hayley who we loved having with us because she is fun and energetic and was willing to help with the boys. My brother Matt and his wife Paige also came down for a few days.

Ben and I love the beach! John Brooks really loves it too. He even learned how to boogie board this year! Bo just likes being anywhere everyone else is so he had fun too. Bo, however, refused to sleep in the pack and play so he ended up being my bed buddy for the week and poor Ben ended up on the sofa. Thankfully this did not create an issue when we got home and I am happy to report that he went straight back to sleeping in his comfy cozy crib.

We had the best time eating, swimming, eating, playing in the sand, eating, taking walks, building sand castles, jumping waves oh and eating too. Vacationing with young children is definitely more of a trip than a relaxing getaway but its hard to complain when you can look out past the balcony and see the beautiful ocean just steps away!

John Brooks is already asking when we can go back!

Road Trip Week 2015

 

Hi there! Long time no post. We were really into summering and I just never had time to sit down and put my thoughts together. So here we are and its almost the end of August. I think I will do a few posts to update and remember our adventures from Summer 2015.

One of the challenges of having an active 4 year old and a relatively new baby is that while the 4 year old is constantly wanting a new adventure the baby needs to be fed every 3 or so hours or he loses his mind. So, this summer I decided that if John Brooks and I were going to have adventures they needed to be within 3 hours of our house. The week of June 21-27 was a busy one for us as we ventured out onto the open road with the wonderful assistance of my amazing mother in law who came along for the ride to help with Bo.

On Monday we crashed my sister in law Amy’s family’s vacation at Lake Weir. We had a wonderful time playing and splashing in the water and John Brooks even got to ride on a boat with the big kids (teenagers/young adults really…3 of them are now in college). Bo hung out with Grandma in the cabin enjoying the air conditioning.

On Wednesday we crashed my other sister in law Gina’s family’s vacation at Crescent Beach. We had a wonderful time playing, jumping waves and building sand castles. John Brooks learned how to boogie board (how is he old enough to do that) and thrilled us all by swimming the entire width of the deep end of the swimming pool….alone. He is so brave y’all sometimes it terrifies me! Bo hung out with Grandma in the condo enjoying the air conditioning and the space to roll around.

We are so very thankful for wonderful family members who don’t mind us crashing their family time!