Last week we went on VACATION!!!
We loaded up about 4AM Thursday morning---Jim, Lila, Courtney, Mark, Ellie, Hunt, Russ, Heather, Henry and Lucy----in 2 cars with 2 turtles on top and a basket on the back of one car with the ice chest and jogging strollers and arrived at the Back Porch about 1 o'clock for lunch. The first 2 nights we stayed in a condo in Sandestin.
Friday we had great weather at the beach and pool.
Then Saturday morning came Fay. We were moving to our house in Sea Crest Beach on Saturday so we didn't miss much since it drizzled ALL DAY.
The view of Fay from our house on Saturday afternoon.
What do you do with four kids at the beach in the rain???
Ripley's Believe it or Not!!!
Russ and Mark took Henry and Ellie into Panama City to a kids museum......which bored them quickly. So they searched for something else to do indoors and they found Ripley's!
They said it was LOTS OF FUN! HA!
Here is Mark with the WORLD'S TALLEST MAN!!
The rest of us entertained Hunt and Lucy by shopping at Seaside during breaks in the rain!
By Monday afternoon Fay moved on
and we had some GREAT beach and pool days!
Lucy is a natural beach baby!
Hunt LOVED the sand!
Henry and Ellie made LOTS of sand castles!
Jim and Lila with Henry, Ellie, and Lucy
before we ate at the Acme Oyster House in Sandestin
We TRIED really hard for a fam pic of all 4 of us!
Henry and Ellie at Captain Anderson's in Panama City
Lucy napping in her stroller at the beach!
Henry LOVED picking up seashells. There were LOTS of them on our beach!!
He is a little OCD so he worked hard to pick up EVERY seashell out there!!!
CRAB HUNTING!!!
We found LOTS of BIG and baby crabs on the beach at night!
They were so cute----and fast!
Picture Night
Henry and Ellie loved feeding the birds......
so did Hunt!
Winding down after a long beach day!
Henry and Ellie slept in their sleeping bags the whole trip.
This was on the pullout couch in Sandestin.
At the house they stayed on the pull out couch in Jim and Lila's room!
I think Henry woke everyone up early every morning saying---"IT'S DAYTIME"!!!!
Our Beach Trip 2008 was so much fun!!! We can't wait until next year!!!
Birthday dinner at Hermans
Jim and Lila
Jim having to stand up while the whole deck at Herman's sang Happy Birthday!!
Collin's birthday was Sept 14th. We celebrated by going to Kansas City for the weekend.
While everyone else made a BIG DEAL about Lucy eating rice cereal and bananas----Henry helped himself to a much tastier breakfast!!!
What's for breakfast???
Yum---Rice Cereal!!
Do YALL eat this???
She HATED the cereal so I decided to add in some bananas----
After I got her out of the high chair and calmed down we tried the bananas again----she thought they might be okay. We will try them again!
Matthew, Leslie, and Annabel came over to play!!
Henry and Annabel had fun playing---but didn't want to sit for a picture!!!
We TRIED really hard for a fam pic of all 4 of us!
