Thursday, August 19, 2010

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 ;)

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