A Day at the beach

Today the kids and I went to the beach. We picked up Nana and Aunt Jackie on the way. Nana packed a good lunch- Thank You! I specifically bought a beach umbrella to protect the kids from the sun, so naturally they spent a minute amount of time under it. They just wanted to go in and out of the water. This left me feeling like I was doing some short distance relay game of "touch the water, then go touch the towel, now back to the water- repeat this while increasing speed exponentially". Yes, at first the water was a novelty but once the children discovered they had the freedom to move between our beach spot and the waves, the trips increased. Once one child was deposited back to the towels, you can be sure the other child was either already in the water or on the way. I didn't need to go to the gym today! I think I got weight lifting and cardio all in one! Aunt Jackie and Nana helped out and I'm sure they are exhausted too! Lunchtime helped slow things down and if the kids weren't appreciative of the umbrella, I think Nana, Jackie, and I were. It was nice eating in it's shade. But once lunch was over it was back in the water (imagine that)! Sunscreen was applied numerous times and hopefully did the trick. I guess we'll find out come bedtime, that's generally when sunburns surface fully.

Then when we dropped Nana back off the kids got a treat of taking a bath together in her BIG bath tub. Thank you, thank you, thank you Nana (sorry for all the sand in the tub)! The kids fell asleep in the car about 15 minutes before getting back home (figures) and it was SOOO nice to just pick them up and put them down for a nap without getting their beds all sandy.

So I thought I'd post some pictures Nana took of the kids. They just LOOK like they are little surfer kids!