We left for the beach about 4 last friday hoping to make it to Montgomery bc were knew there was construction and wanted to hit it at night. The drive was great. Kids were amazing. All 3 were asleep in the car when we hit our hotel at midnight. Av and E woke for the arrival but C never did. I carried her in, changed her clothes and put her in bed wo a peep out of her. Av and E woke for it all but went right back to sleep and we all slept until 8. Pretty amazing bc w 3 kids the odds are pretty stacked against us. We pulled into Destin about 1 on Sat. We could not get into our house yet so we grabbed some lunch and had to go to the beach. We changed in the car and into the sand we headed so excited!! C was amazed with the sand. We had some mixed reviews that afternoon. J and I loved it but the kids were not so impressed. They were tired and the waves were huge!!! J and I were very glad help was coming bc being out numbered on the beach is HARD. My parents, sis and brother-in-law were just getting to the house when we did. The house was perfect!!! A pool and a bunk room and the kids were in heaven. John and I were too bc the master bedroom closet was big enough for E's pack and play. hehehe It was big enough that I drug a chair in there to feed him all week in the early am so he can sleep longer. He slept great in that dark huge closet all week. (we never closed the door and he even had a AC vent in there, he was safe)
We spent the week playing in the sand, ocean and the pool. The kids liked the pool the best I think. I loved the ocean. It was so blue and pretty. The waves stayed big all week though. We had 2 red flag days and those days the kids simply could not get in even at the shore. The waves were crazy. I barely got in those days. Once we got yellow flag days (like the first day we were there) they seemed smaller and we got the girls out in them to enjoy them. They could play at the shore or play out deeper but not in the shallow water. That was right where the waves would break and they were rough. We would carry them over that and once we were out they would float in the waves!!! As C proclaimed a bunch of times "I float right over!!!" It took a lot of convincing to get her out there. Once out though she didn't want to come in.
Another highlight of the trip was Suzanne and Matt bringing us to the beach after dark with flashlights to see the crabs. They discovered that crabs run sideways and thought it was the funniest thing ever. The joke of the week was J mimicking C with how she says and laughs at the "trabs running sideways." (her c's are t's and her g's are d's, it's pretty funny) She would say that and then jump around laughing in this silly way. It was too cute.
Destin is on Central time and it just made the week even better. J and I were up every day at 7:30 since it felt like 8:30 to us!! Yes that meant we were in bed by 9:30 but that was nice too!! We got up and did boot camp 3 days and ran another. It was a great workout week. We had such a nice time working out together.
The girls (my mom, sis and I) didn't want to have anything to do with cooking dinner on vacation and we told the guys that. They did convince that cooking every other night was a good idea on the condition that they do the buying, cooking and cleaning. So one night they grilled. They went to the store and bought the food, cooked it and cleaned up!! heheh The next cook night they had went deep sea fishing so we had a fist fry (so yummy) and the 3rd cook night we had a shrimp boil (very yummy too). Those nights were nice not having to worrying about getting cleaned up and just hanging longer by the pool. The rest of the week we tried some yummy restaurants.
The first night we walked to Whale's Tail. While we were waiting on our food my sis took the kids down to the beach. They had a great time playing with Aunt Anne. After dinner while waiting for the bill my mom took them back down. Silly C got the great idea to make snow angels in the sand. She is funny! The girls also found a closed water activity stand where they took it upon themselves to put on a concert for us. They were walking back and forth singing songs. Too cute!
One night we went to Seaside to eat at a BBQ trailer and see a kids play. It was so nice eating on the lawn and watching the girls play. We had a blast. Afterwards we went to get ice cream while some of the group went potty. The ice cream line was long and confusing and it ended with both my dad and I buying ice cream for the girls. So we had plenty but it was pretty much melted by they time they got back from the bathroom. Then E somehow got his hands on Av's cup and pulled it so ice cream went all over Av, my mom and him. Av was a great sport about it. That was right after E dropped his paci and I picked it up, cleaned it and then tried to put it in Av's mouth. It was pretty funny.
Uncle Matt built a huge sand castle for the girls each day. They loved it!!
It was such a nice trip. My parents and sister and brother in law were so helpful and so fun. We could not have done it wo them and I never want to go back wo them. I hope we can do it yearly!!!! The time my kids got with the people that are most important to me is priceless. I can't thank them enough. They are memories we will cherish always!!! Thank you G&PP and Aunt Anne and Uncle Matt!!
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