At the Beach on Monday (part one)

06.24.13

The reason I've been away for so long is because we have recently moved into our brand new home that my hard-working hubby built for us and we LOVE it!!!  However, we do not have Internet yet so my poor little blog has been sorely neglected.  With that being said, I'm going to make this short and sweet...

Look at the beautiful view from the 15th floor of our condo...spectacular! 

My super sweet sister-in-law, Katherine, fixed Kinsey's hair everyday and it always looked so cute!

Today, we rented beach chairs, umbrella, put up the canopy, set up the kiddie pool, pulled out all of the beach toys and set up the beach chairs.

Brent loves to dig holes for the kids!

I always like to capture an informal family beach picture.

We took our big buckets to the water to try and capture sea creatures...the kids really love this!!!  And, we got really lucky today!  We caught a little fish and a baby puffer fish!  It was so cool watching it blow up!

I was cracking up watching Kinsey bury my feet and Kiki's feet!

The kids love the indoor pool! Beck especially loves the hot tub!

Once again, the kids camped out on Kiki's bed after lunch.

Katherine made her delicious chicken enchiladas for dinner and I made banana pudding for dessert.  Then, we decided to get our family pictures knocked out so we got dressed up and headed to the beach.

I'm pretty sure Beck is going to be just like Daddy...he always makes funny faces.

This is my all-time favorite family picture!!!

First Full Day at the Beach! (part two)

We were finally seated at a long and narrow table.  (There might have been 10 tables inside!) 

Beck and Ava enjoyed coloring while we waited for our food.

It's my party and I'll cry if I want to.  Give that girl some food!  The food was actually delicious and I would definitely go back again.  I got the fish tacos...my mouth is watering thinking about them!

As we were leaving, the lady from the gift shop was outside with a bird on her shoulder.  She was very sweet to the kids.

I am that mom that makes her kids pose with a fake fish.  He-he!

Party time!!!

This little girl is so excited and I'm so happy that she's happy!

After cake and presents, we played with glow in the dark necklaces...so much fun!

Then, we promised the kids that we would take them to the workout room.  There was one girl in there and I'm pretty sure she thought we were crazy parents.

Their favorite thing to do was the treadmill!

Brent asked me to get a video of him lifting 365 lbs which I did.  Before we left, he said, "Get this."  So, I took a picture of him lifting 405 lbs.  He asked to see it and I showed him the picture.  He was so bummed that I did not get a video.  Oops!

Well, this has been a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious day!  We made a lot of memories!

First Full Day at the Beach! (part one)

06.23.13

This is our first full day here and we are looking forward to spending it at the beach, lazy river and the indoor pool.  We hung out with the early risers this morning.

This is why Brent and I get along so well...we are both so silly.

I wanted to kick our week off with some yummy pancakes which tasted delicious on the balcony.

What kid doesn't love the beach?  We had so much fun jumping the waves and looking for creatures in the ocean.

We did everything on the 4th floor...we rode the lazy river, played in the inside pool, got in the large hot tub and the kids played on the playground.

Time to eat lunch!

The rain is coming!  Perfect napping weather but we hung out instead.

The kids love Kiki's room!  She made each of them a little kit which included crayons, scissors, paper and a folder to hold their art work.  What a great idea and they loved it!

Tonight is a very special night.  We are celebrating Kinsey's 3rd birthday!  She is wearing the dress that Neena bought for her because the theme is Minnie Mouse.

As we were deciding where to go eat dinner, little Miss Kinsey crashed.  I will admit that I learned a lesson today...always take a nap especially when you have played hard all morning.  This will be the shortest nap ever.

On our way to Tacky Jacks, it started raining. Why does it have to rain on our parade?  We called this restaurant before leaving the condo and there was no wait but since they had to close the patio which is their main dining area, it went to over an hour wait!!!  I had to cater to a sleepy and hungry little girl.

Brian and Katherine's friend created this really cool looking iron-on for our family.  I love these shirts!!!