Beach!

 We had had very busy week this last week with work, kids and ... and you know, everything. So we decided friday night that we would take an impromptu trip to seaside the next day to spend the day there just us. It was fabulous! I came away thinking "why don't we do this more often?" We are only a few hours drive away. 

I took a few pictures of the kids, Aaron took a few of me, but I have graciously not posted those bloated white pasty pictures. The kids had such a fun time! We played on the beach for 5 hours.

 Evelyn with her little bucket, we made a sand castle. Do you see Egan in the background running full speed into the ocean? The temperature was perfect, a warm sun, cold ocean and cool breeze.

 For some reason the kids wanted to help the ocean bring the water up to the beach, here they are taking bucket fulls of water up to the beach and dumping it out... Silly kids.

 We packed a picnic of yummy sandwiches, chips apples and cookies. Of course sand was everywhere, but we did our best. Here is Evelyn enjoying her Doritos.

 

Egan knew this was his opportunity to get real good and dirty, and boy did he take advantage of it. Every time we turned around he was literally rolling in it. He took a nice long bath when we got home. Here's hoping we don't find any more sand in his ears. :) We plan on taking this trip much more often. We had a blast. A much needed short vacation.