Friends at the Beach

We settled in pretty quickly to our beach routine for the next 7 days.  Eat breakfast on the porch overlooking the ocean, head to the beach, play, play, play,  lunch on the porch, back to the beach, play, play, play, crash at night because they played so hard.  I love our beach days.  Such a sweet time for our family to play and enjoy being together.


She caught a crab 

More fun with our boat  

Mimi & Walker 

This year, we had another family join us at the beach.  Our Flower Mound friends, The Hood's, stayed just down the road from us. They had their grandparents with them also.  They beached it with us on our beach each morning. 

The kids loved playing together! Harper was thrilled to have 3 other girls around.  

Harper was feeding the sea gulls her snacks.  I was taking this picture and a bird pooped right on my arm.  Gross! 

My cousin, Ryan, came and joined us also.  He is from New York but goes to college in North Carolina. He did great with the kids! 

First Day on the beach

The wonderful thing about breaking the drive up into 2 days was that we got to spend Saturday afternoon on the beach instead of still in the car driving!  The house that we stayed at came with lots of fun beach toys including this boat!

Finally - he loved the sand this year! 

Papa and Harper heading out to sea 

Our Happy Place! 

Destin or Bust

We love our annual trip to Destin with my parents.   This is our 4th year to go and stay in the same little neighborhood.  This year we decided to break up the drive into two days.  One day is doable but somewhat of a beating!

Pit stop at the Mississippi River  

We stopped in Hattiesburg for the night.  We arrived at our hotel early enough that the kids enjoyed swimming and burning off some of their energy.  

The next day we stopped in Mobile to eat lunch with our friends the Crowders.  

Exploring the restaurant with Papa

Our LEAST favorite part of the drive is the traffic to get over the Destin bridge.  

We made it and it was still daylight to see the ocean!  

Another weekend in Paris

Jeff was tied up this weekend with baseball tournaments so the kids and I packed up and headed to Paris again this weekend.  The first thing they did when we arrived was go jump in the pool before bedtime. 

Swimsuits are optional out in the country. 

Saturday morning they were in the pool by 8 a.m. 

They really do love each other.  

I took the boys to see Finding Dory at the movie theater.  It was Walker's first theater experience. He was excited at first but continued to ask me for popcorn for the first hour.  I finally gave in and took him out to the concession stand.  He was a happy camper until his popcorn ran out.  Brody and I helped him eat it.  Then he wouldn't sit in the seat or stop fussing so we headed out early.  Sad that we didn't make it through the whole thing but maybe next time...