Beach Trip 2009

We made our annual fall break trip to the beach again.... and it was so fun. The weather was cooler than it had ever been, but the boys werent bothered by it at all. We spent lots of time on the beach, some time at the heated pool, and even a few minutes in the hot tub! :o) Here are some of the Posed pics I took this weekend...

The family...

Momma's angels

Micah looks so old here...

Sweet Coby... how cute is he?

Sweet Cason... he is growing up so fast!

My little punkin.... Precious Bryson

One of my favorites (hence the new header)

Cant wait til we get to go again....

Beach Trip 2009-cont'd

Those were the "posed "pics... now for some fun ones....

Gotta take one of these every year... it never gets old...

on the boardwalk

taking sand baths

boogie boarding

Coby building sand castles with Meggie

Micah and Cason jumping the waves

Bryson "diving"

We buried Daddy

Proof that I was there, too..

hehehe

Bry got cold and grouchy....

So we wrapped him up into a burrito with about 8 towels and he took a nap on the beach... what a 4th child! :o)

They worked so hard on their sandcastle villiage...

SHARK!!

While we were in Port A, we got to go shopping at a little shop where we were "devoured" by a SHARK!! :o) Here is momma with the boys:

And here we decided to pretend like we were scared the shark.... not sure why the shark gave me a triple chin!

And the boys with daddy:

And rather than daddy looking like he was scared, he looks more like he is already a goner. I love the look on Bry's face... "what is my dad doing?"

More Beach pics

These are all the "posed pics" that we took Saturday night. I have lots more candid shots to weed thru that I will have to post later. I took almost 350 pictures. oops!

Here we are last year for comparison... look how much Bry has grown!

Best Family Beach Trip 2008. It was a little windier this year, and the sunset wasnt as pretty. But I was pleased. A special thanks to our second-year photographer, "little plastic white chair."

My 4 boys

My 5 boys

Sweet Brothers!

Micah took this pic! Not bad!

And Coby wanted to take one, too. He took this one. :o)

When the photo session was over, Bry asked, "all done?" When I told him yes, he took off running into the ocean fully clothed.

also, dont miss the cute little individual pics of the boys on the side bar.

We're Home...

I think we brought home enough sand to build a sandcastle in my laundry room... so I will have to post more pics when I have time, but for now, here is a "teaser" for the grandmas....

ANOTHER ONE??!!

This was Bry towards the end of the photo session... we had bribed him with an oreo, but I think he was beginning to doubt us! :o)

More to some soon.... gotta go unload, unpack, and "move back in" at home!

Feelin Beachy

Hope you are all having a great weekend... it is Fall Break for our boys, and here is a glimpse of the FUN we are having here!!

Beach Babes!!

The last weekend in September is my "annual ladies beachtrip" weekend. I got to go on a fabulously relaxing beach trip with some girlfriends. My friends are such a blessing to me and I am so thankful for each of these girls... some could not go and were terrible missed, but those of us who went had a fun time!

Here are the beach bums... Julie didnt get the memo about the brown swimsuit cover-up.

I finally twisted arms enough to get themto pose for our picture in the shark's mouth. I about gave a kid a heart attack when I asked him to take our pic. He was riding by on his (bright orange) bicycle and I was tring to get his attention and hollered maybe a little to abrubtly.


Julie was the only one who would humor me with a "silly pic" This ones is for our boys!



Sweet friends... enjoying a dinner on the bay overlooking the water... and dining with the mosquitos...

Thanks to Clint for taking great care of the boys and letting me go. He took a trip to go visit GiGi and Gdad while I was gone, so the boys hardly missed me!

How much longer til next september?

The Beach in October!

Let me hear a WHOO-HOO for Fall Break! The boys did not have school this week from Wed – Friday, and the break could not have come at a better time for us! Clint’s work schedule has been insane lately and we have not had any time together at all since August, so we were so excited to load up and head to the beach for a few days. We had a blast! It was beautiful and sunny… kinda cool at times, but that didn’t slow anyone down! On our way home we headed into Corpus Christi and went to the Aquarium, which was a big hit as well…. It is always so nice to get away and take a break and spend some quality time with my family… and then it is also nice to be back home!
So now… for pictures… first let me tell you that I downloaded almost 300, so I had to narrow it down… and let me also say that I realize there are more of Bryson that the other 3. There is something so irresistibly cute about a chubby little red-headed baby on the beach!
These first few are our "posed" pics. I was so pleased that it worked out to do these… the sunset could not have been more perfect! And a special thanks to the plastic white chair for holding the camera for the first picture here of all of us… this was about try number 5 on the self-timer, so if I look winded from running back and forth to jump in the picture, you know why! :o)

Sweet brothers!

One of my favorite pics:
I think he could be in an ad for baby sunscreen.... cute, red-headed, and WHITE!!

These 2 had a blast "running from the waves!"

And these 2 were a little more timid!

We spent lots of time building sandcastles

Here is the "finished product"

Feeding the sea gulls...

Bryson loved the "birrrds"

My little burrito taking a break to warm up!

Onto the aquarium... this was my favorite part... the dolphins are so beautiful. We saw a show where they did all their tricks and then went downstairs to watch them swim and play thru the glass. The boys loved this! How cute is this picture?

Bryson petting the stingray



The crew in front of the USS Lexington... Clint was way more impressed than any of them!