Beach or Bust....

We FINALLY went on a family vacation! Yay for us!! We managed to go to the aquarium earlier in the year but that was just small potatoes. We left out last Fri morning headed for Gulf Shores!! We were able to get a great deal on a super nice condo on the beach. I cannot explain to you how excited everyone of us was about this trip! We were there for 5 wonderful nights!
I have to mention that we did have some van trouble. Apparantley our wheel bearing was about to break....I don't even know if I worded that right but you get the idea. We had to order a part when we got into GS and schedule it to be fixed with a shop down there first thing. Of course the part wasn't going to come in until 2 hours after our check out time so a big thanks to the lady managing the property that let us check out late so I could keep kids at our condo and not entertain everyone at the tire store for 5 hours! That is a serious Thank you Lord!
Anyway, we had an absolute blast!
We went to the beach and pool (our building had a zero entry pool with fountains for the kids woot woot) multiple times every day except for Tue. A storm had come in and brought some oil with it so we went to the GS Zoo that day and we visited the pier! I will post pics of those later!
Here are some pics....they speak more than I can explain to you!


Casen had the right idea of relaxing from the first night that we got there! That's my boy!

He just was not sure about the whole ocean thing. This was about as far out as he got! He did really enjoy chasing sea gulls and kicking his ball around!



Michael didn't think this trip would be complete until he buried the boys! Trever was pumped...Casen, not so much (see his hands..he's just not sure)

Buried!!

We baptized Trever while we were there! JK... he went under and was choking...he just flails around like this everytime he gets choked or the sun is in his eyes...LOL!

Trever "surfing"! This little guy had been on a mission to do this since a week proir to or trip! He LOVES the beach!

This was a water spout that we had been watching come across the ocean!

Trever's face after Michael explained to him what a water spout was and that it was headed for the condo next door to us....haha

I saw these crabs out on the sand bar the first day and had been on a mission to catch one...my boys were super impressed ;)

We are Still Alive...

I know that I have completely sucked at updating our blog over the Summer. I am one of those perfectionist people but the type that if I can't do it like I want to or get behind then I just get overwhelmed with it all and just don't do it. SO...it all started when the twins came to live with us for awhile. I started slowly but surely getting deeply behind...on everything! Trever's 5th birthday was right in the middle of that. It was nice for his siblings to be here for that but I didn't get to blog about it and about him like I wanted too so I have just avoided this whole thing until I could get him on here.
Well, I'm not going to do it in that order bc it is going to take me awhile to go through my pics and decide which ones I want to put up so I am going to just skip over most of the Summer and go straight to our beach trip (in the next day or two)that we just got back from. Let's just all pretend that I am completely caught up so I can move on and keep this blog going ;)
I will give you highlights of what I am skipping just so you will be "in the know"! Most of you are my friend on Facebook so you already know most of this!

-We had some of Trever's biological siblings staying with us for about a month
-Trever turned the big 5!!! My baby is officially big! (sorta)
- Trever finished out his Summer Tball season...Go Pirates!
- I was able to go on a beach trip with our youth from church!
-We have decided to homeschool Trever this year!
- Michael was in the Homes and Land magazine and we are SO very proud of him!!

I think that is about it....if I remember more I will update you!