The Hoekstra Family: SGI-part one (Friday, Sat and Sunday)

What Marci and I bought for vaca:

Okay, well we seriously had the most AMAZING vacation ever!!!!!!! Every part of it was so perfect. We LOVE St. George Island!!!! It started last Friday. We couldn't get into the FL house until Sunday at 4 but we were so excited to start vaca we just wanted to leave asap. So we leave left Fri after J got out of work. The packed car:

We only planned to make it 3 hours to Nashville. We love staying in hotels as a family so that is just what we did. We got there around 9 and the kids were wild of course. Jumping, running talking real loud. Just very excited. We played, hung out, watched the olympics and then all settled down for the night.

We slept well and on Sat woke around 830. After a quick breakfast we got on the rd to Atlanta (3 hours). My bestie from college lives there and we made a pitt stop to see her for the night. Christine and Dave were so wonderful to let me and my crew invade their house for the night. Their house is soooo nice and we were very comfortable for the night. They have a backyard pool and when it finally stopped raining the girls spent HOURS in their pool. They loved it. After some pizza and olympics and torturing Sophie and Miles (their cat and dog) they settled down for the night. We all slept well there too.

The night morning we basically got up and got on the road. We were soooo excited for the beach. This was our longest leg of the trip. 5 hours. The kids were good and we only had to stop once. No one slept of course like I had really wanted but we still managed just fine. We arrived at Double Vision (the name of the house was Sea'n Double but Brent couldn't keep that straight and called it Double Vision and it stuck) at 330. We could not get in yet so we unloaded the car and had it all ready and waiting. When the clock struck 4 we got in!! We put E to bed and started bringing in the stuff. It was very exciting. The Shumans arrived about 430 and that was when the party started!!!!!!! We unloaded, swam in the pool, ate pizza for dinner and then headed to the beach!!! The kids were sooooo excited.

We bought these dresses off the clearence rack at target as a surprise for the girls. They showed up matching in these very fancy wonderful dresses.

J and his mimi-me

The beach girls

Exactly 2 years ago these girls swam together in the ocean naked after dinner one night (we had not planned on swimming that night or this time either) and they both have pics in their room of that swim. So here is a repeat of that (only in their underwear this time).