To wrap up our vacation, we just enjoyed more of the beach, the water park at our resort, more putt putt, and riding the old beach pavilion rides at Broadway at the Beach (that's a nice tradition we plan to keep up every year). Our daily routine involved waking up between 8:00 and 8:30 (that's late for our kids), eating breakfast in our room, getting ready for the beach (that means a lengthy routine of covering everyone in SPF50+ sunscreen for my family of very white folks), getting down to the beach about 10:00 and hanging out until between 12:00 and 1:00, going back to our room and having lunch (Eddie did sneak down to the poolside bar to snag us some yummy tropical beverages), naptime for Brody while Daddy and Evan went to the water park, water park time for Brody when he woke from his nap, coming in and taking baths/showers and getting ready to go out for dinner/entertainment in the evening, and then getting back to the room exhausted and ready to crash. Does that sound like a relaxing vacation to anyone? Ha!
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| Brody loves the beach and his little shark swim trunks from Gap. They actually have writing on them that you can only see close up. Any ideas what the writing says? Does "Nuh Na Nuh Na Nuh Na" sound familiar? Ha! |
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| Sitting on the shark boogie board playing in the sand in the shade. This baby could sit and dig in the sand all day. He was actually a very easy baby to have on the beach. |
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| Covering himself with sand. |
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| I just love him! |
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| "What Mom? I'm busy!" |
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| My little sand castle maker. |
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| It takes a lot of concentration to make it perfect. |
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| I remember pictures of him doing this at 2 years old. My how time flies! |
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| He wrote his name on the beach. |
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| My cool kid |
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| Playing a little football. |
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| I love that his sunglasses sat crooked on his face. |
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| Splashing with Mommy. |
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| Brody is not afraid of the water at all and would go in all by himself if we'd let him. |
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| Me and my baby. |
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| I love him. |
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| I love both of them so much. |
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| Proud Daddy with his cool kids. |
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| More digging. |
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| Bringing more water to help Mommy make a sand castle. |
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| Just watching Mommy work. |
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| Hanging out in the shade. |
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| Our castle complete with a moat and a bridge. |
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| Overhead shot. No, we could never get enough water to fill up the moat so we gave up. |
PIRATE PUTT-PUTT
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| I have this exact picture from when he was two. Pirate putt-putt is his favorite. |
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| Brody is ready to play his first game of putt-putt. |
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| Look at that big boy with his club. Looks like he may prefer baseball though. |
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| Sitting on the pirate ship. |
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| Daddy showing him how to putt. Priceless! |
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| I just love these Daddy-son moments. |
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| Brothers playing together. |
MORE FUN AT THE WATER PARK!
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| Trying to get his fill of water. He could stay in there all day! |
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| Mommy and her baby. |
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| Making a splash. |
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| Mommy took Brody down the water slide, and he loved it! |
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| We made a big splash. |
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| Gotta love our happy faces! |
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| He loved splashing. |
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| Cutie trying to climb back onto the slide. |
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| Here comes Evan! |
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| Daddy's funny face. |
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| Brody was not as amused going down the slide with Daddy because he made too big of a splash! |
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| Big brother Evan went down a million times. |
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| Okay, maybe a million and two! |
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| Making a big splash. |
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| Sweet baby was so happy in the water. |
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| Evan did the really big slide. |
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| The face says it all. |
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| Just having a blast. |
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| The happiest baby in the world! |
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| Yep, we enjoyed having about 500 gallons of water dropped on our heads. |
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| And Daddy too. |
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| We are ready this time! |
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| Brody doing more splashing. |
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| I love Daddy and Evan's faces. |
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| Evan kept doing it because he thought it was funny that the force of the water made his pants fall down a little. Not a full moon...just a half one. Ha! |
PAVILION NOSTALGIA PARK
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| This is where all the old beach pavilion rides reside at Broadway at the Beach. We love it. |
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| Brody got to ride with big brother this year. So memorable! |
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| Driving their dune buggy. |
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| I just love these special times! |
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| Daddy always has to ride the teacups with Evan because Mommy can't handle them. |
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| Evan riding the carousel. |
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| He decided he liked this patriotic horse better. He's definitely a proud American boy! |
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| Brody rode a little pony. |
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| And a great big lion. |
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| And the last ride of the night was a little boat ride. Brody loved ringing the bell. |
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| Our beautiful view of the ocean. |
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| A little sailboat that came by while we were on the beach. |
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| And a plane flew over. |
THE END!
Okay first off, I love your bathing suit!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like y'all had a wonderful time. So many memories to share and for them to look back on fondly. I'm sure the break from work and school was such a blessing.
Thanks, girl! I found it at Target while we were at the beach. Ugh, I'm tired of my bathing suits making me look fat and nasty. Ha! This one did a little better camouflaging the fat belly. Yep, that week off was definitely a much needed blessing!
DeleteHey Valerie- that's exactly what I was going to say. I love your suit, Sherry. It's very vintage looking, but also totally hip and now.
ReplyDeleteSpencer actually has the same suit with the surfboards that Brody has. But then Elliott has the same blue and orange striped outfit as Brody. I think. Does it have a shark on the side.
All of the photos are awesome, but the one of the beach with the colorful umbrella? Sell that to a calendar company or a postcard company or something. You'll be able to put the boys through college with your profits. It is beautiful! So peaceful looking.
Awww, I think Eddie found Brody's swim suit at Target this year. Isn't that weird? I had told you before that one of Brody's outfits was a hand-me-down from Evan, and you said you got Elliott's same one new this year. Brody's blue and orange striped outfit doesn't have a shark on it, but I had also noticed that Elliott had a similar striped outfit. I didn't notice the shark though. I got B's from Old Navy at the beach. Yep, I liked the fun colorful umbrella in that picture. The beach was actually crowded so that was one of the few shots I could get without people in it.
DeleteHey -- I'm really late in commenting because for some reason I couldn't get the pictures in this post to load for me. Until tonight. Weird.
ReplyDeleteAnyways, I agree with Natalie -- that beach umbrella picture is AWESOME!
And your swimsuit is rocking too!
AAAAND... I love the pictures of the water splashing at the splash park -- you have gotten some amazing shots there and I'm envious :)
And Evan's crooked sunglasses are adorable. Love.