St. George 2011

We are blessed and thankful to have a trip to St. George Island every year. We look forward to it from the day we leave the beach until the time we arrive again. This year was one of our best! The boys are older and played well together (most of the time.) :) They liked being down at the beach for longer periods of time, and all of us adults got to relax and enjoy the beach for ourselves more than we have in the last couple of years. I think we were all needing the break.

Our first day on the beach!

Chillin


I thought I had hooked a big, nice fish. I was very wrong. So sad to catch a little sea turtle, but neat to see one up close. (I just noticed Bryan has a flashlight on his hat and it's turned on. Guess he was helping me look at the turtle.) :)

Pops & B hanging out on the awesome screened-in porch. By the way, the weather could not have been more perfect! Mid to low 80's with no humidity and a cool breeze. We hardly broke a sweat.

Lyndi & I took the boys to the park one morning for a change of scenery. We ended our play date with pizza & ice cream from B.J.'s. YUMMY!

Our one and only boat ride. See that nice man pulling our boat with his? Yeah, poor Ferrell's boat died on us. That man was kind enough to tow us back to the dock with his BRAND NEW, first time on the water, boat.


We were all tired and hungry after our evening stranded on the boat, but we had planned to celebrate G's 3rd birthday that night. He is the funniest little guy I've ever met. So glad we got to spend the week with him.


Breakfast with the Boys

Back out to play. They really like to run up and down the beach. Grant tried his best to keep up with Bryan. :) We think he was faster by the end of the week. Really!! (notice the dolphin?!)

Bryan and Pops wave jumping. Bryan was scared to get in the water at first. One day he had a horrible attitude so I grabbed him up out of the chair and ran to the water with him. He was hooked after that. :)



Our last full day at the beach we went to the end of the island to fish and look for seashells. We had seashells on the beach by the house we were in, but the end of the island has really nice ones. We got a couple of buckets full of shells and one bucket full of hermit crabs. They entertained us while the others fished.

Later that night we went to The Hut to have supper. Here are the boys waiting on us to get ready. Their movie of choice for the week was Peter Pan. They also LOVE Disney Channel's Jake and the Neverland Pirates. Pops gave them some "gold doubloons" and they were truly a treasure in their eyes.

And finally, in no particular order, group pictures!

Beach Trip

We had an awesome time at the beach this past week. Lots of us loaded up and drove down to Rosemary Beach to celebrate Aunt Lynn's 60th Birthday. The weather was awesome and the beach beautiful! It was so great to spend time with our family. Here are the pictures!

Aunt Lynn's Beach Trip

Our sweet nephew, Grant

Grant is so precious! We had the best time with him last week. What a blessing to be able to spend a whole week with him and his parents.

Some of our Favs from St George

Photo Shoot

Some more days at St. George

Ferrell and Pops with their poker faces!
Jamie and Lyndi going deep sea fishing!
Ferrell caught a big one, but it got caught on the anchor rope and got off. :(

Lyndi caught the biggest fish! This is a 25inch Red Drum fish and it sure was good for supper last night!


Bryan is still enjoying the beach and water. It rained most of the day Tuesday so none of us were out on the beach. Last night (Wednesday) was overcast and perfect for playing at the beach. We both had sand ALL over us!

St. George Island Day 2

Bryan LOVES the ocean! He got in the water for a while today and loved it. We bought him a cute little crab float (hopefully I'll get a pic of that soon) that has a hood over it. He floated in the waves for a long time and laughed when the water hit his face.

Bryan has learned to climb the stairs at our beach house this week! He actually just took off like he had climbed stairs his whole 9 months of life! :)

This is how a baby looks after a full day at the beach! He wasn't actually down at the beach for long, but it sure wore him out!

Greetings from the Beach!!!

We're just settling down now for our first night at St. George Island in Florida. We've had a LONG day! We went to see Wes Shiver and Sarah Salter get married this morning at 11, and then it was pack, travel, arrive, unload, and introduce the little boy to some sand,
and some water!