Our Family Beach Trip

A couple of weeks ago we took a family beach trip to the Alabama shore.  There is an amazing coastline down there, and the water is so warm.  It's our third trip there, and it gets better and better each time.    It also a haul to get down there, but as the boys are getting older it's just getting easier.    It was such a good time, and so relaxing.  We really didn't do much outside of going to the beach.  However, the boys did get to go crab hunting after dark one evening which was quite eventful.  I think I got into it more than they did. I thought come on will we really see any crabs?  I couldn't get over how many we saw and how much fun it was.  So nice to just get away as a family and spend time together.   

Underwear and a Green dog--

Funny title I know but I thought I would quickly post that Y is now wearing underwear during the day and staying dry!  Yippie Skip!!  Wow--he was a piece of cake to potty train compared to his older bro. 

So on to the dog...W decided to instead write with chalk on the cement, it would be more fun to saw it, make chalk dust and rub it on Aspen.  He was really freaked out to see her green, and quite concerned when he noticed he couldn't just rub it off her.  All I heard from a screaming boy was "mommy come quick Aspen is green"  Huh?? (hope the green comes through, it faded by the time I got around to take a pic)

Twin Fun!!

My friend Sara Beth has the cutest twin boys, and I watched them the other day.  It was like having triplets because they are only a few weeks younger then Y.  Thank goodness I had W here to help me keep an eye on them. They have red hair similar to W.  As you can see W is fond of them. W and I also decided to start our garden that day.   Time has gotten away from us and it's a little late to be starting it from seeds so we'll see what happens.  To keep the 3 little ones busy I gave them the job to fill the containers with dirt. The twins thought  it was more fun to fill them with rocks(which was great-less messy).  W stayed focused and got all the seeds planted and watered.   Garden updates to come...