Beach Fun

As you may have noticed I entitled it "Beach Fun" and not "Beach Bums". We went with Brian's family to the beach and had lots of fun, but chasing 5 kids 6 and under there was only time for building sand castles, boat rides, catching crabs and fish, swimming, swimming and more swimming. Oh well, that is what is all about isn't it?!! We did start our trip by stopping by the USS Alabama battleship on the way down to Gulf Shores. While we were there Brian and I celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary, we rode on a dolphin cruise, a ferris wheel, went putt putting and rode go carts. It was a blast! Sorry for the ridiculously long slide show:)

B and B

B and B can have several meanings this past weekend! Balloons and Boating are the ways we spent our weekend. On Friday night we went to the annual balloon glow and the kids had a lot of fun! Campbell of course was very frightened by the fire, but he was last year too! We keep hoping that one year he will not be scared...until then we will keep trying! On Saturday we went boating with our family. Brian's cousin invited us to go boating with their family. The kids had so much fun that before we could hit dry land they were asking their Daddy when he was going to buy them a boat! You will see in the pictures how they are grinning from ear to ear. It was an awesome day for all of us! That leads us to dropping off the kids with the grandparents and heading to a real B and B (Bed and Breakfast) to celebrate our anniversary! After a hot day at the lake we checked into our B and B for a romantic night away from the kiddos to a sauna. Seriously, the air conditioner was broken and the thermostat said 84 degrees inside the house on a 102 degree day! By the time I used the hair dryer we were sweating! We ate a nice dinner and headed home to our own bed with no breakfast!

My Little Firecrackers

We started celebrating the 4th of July on the 3rd. We all piled up in the back of Brian's truck for the city wide fireworks display. We try to go every year and the kids love it! On the actual 4th of July we spent it with our friends. The kids had a blast swimming at their house, slip and slide and dessert. Then we loaded up for fireworks at our house. It was lots of fun! Emma Cate said, "It was the best day of her life!"