Back to the Beach!

So, the Smith family kindly invited us to the beach with them last week. Their parents have a beach house down in Amelia Island, Florida. Since the men folk had to work, Jamie and I loaded up the kids into the van and off we went!

Sorry, these pictures will be a little out of order, but here we go!

One day we decided to let the kiddos go to the beach in their clothes. It was a nice evening and we wanted to take the babies with us in the snugglies. So, the kids had so much fun getting dirty and playing in a tide pool. Here are the babes working hard at what they do. They spent a lot of time in this little contraption together though I'm not sure that either one realized the other was there...

One night we decided to have a semi movie night. We put in an episode of Mickey Mouse and popped some popcorn. They were zombies for a while, but it worked out nicely for Jamie and me! haha

Back to the water...Brody and Madeline also had a lot of fun at the community pools, but sadly I didn't take any pictures of that. They did really well together just swimming around in their floaties.

Of course a little sand throwing is necessary.

I think Madeline was a little hesitant in this picture due to feeling so dirty... Brody meanwhile lives his life in a constant state of smelly and dirty...

I don't know why this was sideways, but these boys sure are cute, right?

We also had some good old book reading times. Jamie and I sort of took turns with the kids. She'd take the older ones in the morning and I'd stay with the babies and then we'd switch for the afternoon or whatever. It actually worked out really well.

There were some crazy stairs to and fro the beach, but the kids didn't mind one bit.
and back to those adorable babies. So fun.

Thanks for a wonderful trip!! We had so much fun with you guys.