Beach

All of the family ministry volunteers at church were invited to the beach to hangout together Sunday evening. Adam nor I are “beach” people. We would rather hang out at the pool….but we thought it would be fun to hang out with everyone else. We knew we couldn’t go to church that morning and come back home because we would be turning right back around to head back, so we got lunch and opted to stay at Grammy’s that afternoon and let Ava take a nap. It was so nice to just relax and not have anything to do. If we had been home I would have been doing a million and one other things, but we didn’t have ANYTHING to do- so we watched tv and napped (Grammy and Big Papa were not here…so we weren’t being unsociable :) )

We ended up driving down to the beach instead of walking, which probably was the best idea because after Ava getting so sandy, I drove the car back to Grammy’s with the chairs and cooler while Adam pulled Ava back in wagon. She was only like 7-8 blocks from where we met everyone. 

 

Adam and I hadn’t even been to the beach this year (did I already mention we weren’t beach people?) Ava had been with my mom and sister, but that was at the beginning of summer and apparently the entire time she was there she kept saying “Mess! Mess!” to the sand. Well, as the pictures so…she was not too worried about the mess this time, she had it all over her! I changed her into her bathing suit shortly after we arrived. She had so much fun playing!

This is Raegan…one of my girls in Upstreet- I love this girl- sand and all :)

   

The tide kept moving in so we all had to keep moving our stuff back, we were almost in the dunes by the time we left. It ended up creating a nice pool for the kids to play in, they would ride their boogie boards in the little pool area and when a wave would come up they would surf it…it was pretty funny watching them- they were having a blast- however, the little kids weren’t able to participate- it was a little too rough for them. Ava didn’t really like the water- she would want me to hold her whenever a wave came.

Caleb was trying out the more relaxing style of surfing….

After we left we went back to Grammy’s and showered and rinsed all of our beach stuff off….it was so nice to have all of that done before we got home and we didn’t have to drive all that way home with sand everywhere!

   

For a day they had been forecasting rain for most of the afternoon/evening, it didn’t rain at all and there was such a nice breeze that it wasn’t really hot either. We had such a great time.