Beach, baby!

Did you miss us last week?? We were at the beach, baby!! After lots of fear about the oil spill, we were pleasantly surprised that there was NO oil in sight for the entire week we were there! We were unfortunately plagued by seaweed the entire time we were there, which made for interesting clean up showers (you had seaweed where???), but it was a great week overall. I ate crab legs twice-- once without even having to wrangle Abby at the same time!

This first picture is from our first morning in Destin, getting Abby ready for the beach. She was a little upset because she was "ready go beach" but Mommy wasn't quite ready yet. The picture quality isn't good, and I had to adjust the lighting so you can really see her, but she's ready-- complete with glasses and cell phone! My little diva in training....

She wasn't really sure about the ocean (and really never did get too sure about it), but she certainly liked the sand and building "sancastles". I was a little worried, because she's not a kid who likes to be dirty, but she managed pretty well with only the occassional rinse off required. We were able to keep her in the shade most of the time....

Cutest little back shot ever.....

She napped on the beach just like the last two years, but her place of preference this year was MeMe's lap.

And then it was back to building again....

She tried to recruit a workcrew when she could....

One morning Dave and I took her to see the dolphins at the Gulfarium in Ft. Walton. Not her best morning ever...she wanted me to keep picking her up and putting her down, which I just really can't do anymore. So there were lots of tears, mixed in with "one more times" when the dolphins would jump.

She did like the big aquarium though.... In remembrance of the day, I bought her a Gulfarium tshirt with a cute crab on it that says "I'm a little crabby."

This is also how she spent more late afternoons....the sun is tiring!!

I'll post some of our family pictures soon!