Beach Trip

These are Tristan's footprints in the sand. I already have a picture of Cooper's footprints in the sand that I  did something with. 

Every year for Thanksgiving our family takes turns  celebrating with my family one year and Blake's family the next.  Blake's family goes to the beach for Thanksgiving. This year we celebrated Thanksgiving at the beach a week earlier (because Mimi and D-John are leaving on a cruise to Hawaii a couple of days after Thanksgiving).  The weather was great. It was a little windy and of course not warm enough for the kids to swim...But, it felt really good. The kids had a blast and also had the beach to themselves. No one was there so they were able to literally run around everywhere. Any other time-they wouldn't have been able to run like that because there would've been beach chairs in their way. 

 By the end of every trip down to the sand-the kids were basically naked in the water. :) These pictures were from the first day at the beach. I wish we were there now!

Beach Portraits

 I took some pictures of the kids on our last night there. As always our trip was too short and we were sad to leave and ready to go back! I can't believe how dark their hair looks in these pictures. By the end of the summer they both will be blond again.

Pool Day

 During our Beach Trip, one of the days at the beach was gorgeous, but just toooooo windy. I mean the wind didn't let up the entire day. You know how sometimes the wind will be so bad and you start getting a little chilly...then the wind finally stops long enough for you to get warm again? Ok, that didn't happen! Cooper had of course been bugging to go the pool, from the moment we woke up. He was shocked when I said so quickly, YES, let's go to the pool! The pool was much better. The buildings must have been blocking most of the wind, so it felt GREAT!

Tristan caught on quickly that My Mom and I both had beach bags...so, when we went to the beach or the pool Tristan said, "MOM, I NEED MY PURSE!" Which at the pool was on her shoulder, unless she was in the water.

The Back Porch



We love eating at the Back Porch, anytime we are in the Destin area. We like getting a new t-shirt every year as well. Cooper picked out one for Daddy, that matches his he picked out! Lima bought Poppy a t-shirt too, and of course, Poppy had to match Cooper as well.