Beach

I received some additional great pics of the kids from our beach trip. We had such a good time, that we are already talking about planning for next year. Jeff and I would love to take a few days before the end of the summer and either go camping or back to the beach, but I don't know if it is going to happen.

Swinging Free

Tyler has a swing at my mom's house and loves it. He smiles so big every time he is in it. This picture is of him at the beach playground on one of the overcast days. I had forgotten how good swinging aimlessly through the air feels. . .but his smile reminds me.

Floater

On our way home from the beach we stopped at Jeff's parents shore house for a quick visit. The temperature was well into the nineties so it was a good day for our newphew Johnny to float around in the lagoon.

Beach Babies

We spent a week at the beach in Ocean City, NJ with friends of ours and their 1 year old little girl, Emily. The kids had such a great time in the sand. The best thing we did though was purchase individual size pools for them on the boardwalk--Best $5 we spent all week. We just filled them with an inch or two of ocean water and Tyler was content to hold a toy and splash with the other hand for long stretches. The kids ate less sand and we weren't constantly running after crawling babies.

It was so nice to be able to just enjoy each other as a family without the demands of errands, work, cleaning and daily life.