The Beach

We planned a last minute beach vacation to the beach for Memorial Day. (Had we looked at the weather report, we may not chosen the beach we ended up at.) We rented a three bedroom beach house at Jacksonville (Jax) Beach. It was a GREAT location! We had to just walk out the back door and there was the beach!! We decided to wait until Saturday morning to leave (it's only 2 hours from us). We figured that by the time we left Friday night we would hit a little traffic and we wouldn't have any beach time anyway. We hit the road by 930 Saturday morning. We figured we'd play the beach a little before naps.

WELL our plans changed just a little because we remembered one of our best friends from high schools parents moved to Jacksonville a few years ago. SO 11 am Saturday morning we were knocking on their door. I'm pretty sure they have only seen pictures of the boys, but they could have met Carson when he was a little baby. It was so nice to see them!! We spent an hour visiting then with the Swartz's and planned to meet them for dinner as well.

We spent the afternoon planning at the beach Saturday. It was BEAUTIFUL!! (It was the calm before the storm!!) When they napped mama laid out in peace!! It was great!!

Dinner was fun! It was great spending time with them! Carson LOVED Mrs. Susan and the spider man helicopter she gave him!!

Sunday was a bit more interesting!! We were up and out on the beach by 830. It was a beautiful morning!! But by 10 it started getting pretty gray and windy! We decided to head in to put Tyler down for his morning nap and Carson got to watch a movie. By the time Tyler woke up it was extremely windy and the rain started. So much for an afternoon on the beach! We went to explore in downtown Jacksonville. We went to their science museum and then headed back home for naps. Since Tropical Storm Beryl was making it's presence known we did family night at the bowling alley! I guess we should have left to come home that night but we didn't! It was extremely windy that night! Luckily the boys slept through it all even if Jason and I didn't.

Overall it was a fantastic weekend!! Even if the weather was not perfect spending time together as a family was priceless!!