The Beach!!!!

The combination of my excitement for my new camera, and my love for beach pictures, has made for a POST THAT IS WAY TOO LONG

about our trip to the beach, we were only there for one night for goodness sakes, but I just really like all of my pictures, so feel free to skim this one, its long!

When we got to Driftwood Shores, we went straight to the pool!

Even Mommy went swimming!

The hot tub was perfect!

They just remodeled the whole pool area at Driftwood Shores.

The kids had a great time exploring all of the new stuff!

a picture of the newly remodeled pool area

Go Max!!!!

Pancho teaching Lucy how to swim,

she was doing really well this summer, but we haven't been swimming in a while, so she needed a little extra help at the beginning.

Ever since we went to Hawaii, Sam LOVES snorkeling.

Max

Lucy

Then we all went down to the Beach, it was a really nice day.

Max, our Engineer, always starts a cool sand project.

Lucy was into collecting shells . . .

Sam was looking for sticks for the top of his castle.

The kids with our hotel in the background.

Max is looking so grown up to me lately.

He is getting so tall and skinny.

I can see glimmers of teenager already.

I want to slow down time!

Lulu and I went for a little "shell finding" walk together.

She is so fun to talk to, always happy and full of excitement for the world around her.

Daddy got to have some Lulu time too.

She would get so excited when she would find a shell.

Sam found a stick, but it was a little too big.

building a castle together. . .

Oh Yeah, we're cool

Check out these guns!

Lucy took this picture of us!

While she was taking it, we didn't know that Sam was goofing around in the background of every picture.

He cracks us up constantly! He is always doing something funny.

Lets get a cute picture of all three kids before we go!

Yeah right, well 2 out of 3 aint bad

 (or at least that is what I have to constantly tell myself)

Max was mad because Sam used his bucket.

We finally made it to Newport to meet up with the McCarthys at Moe's!

. ..the kids were so excited to meet up with their friends.

We went back to their place and the kids all went swimming.

Then we all went up to their condo and played board games and cards all night!

So fun!

One last picture of the view of the bridge from their place!

What a fun way to spend the three day weekend!