There was nothing like the feeling the first night when we drove up to our awesome beach house, unloaded the cars and walked only a couple hundred yards to the beach. We walked up the stairs
and were SOOO excited!! Yea, the beach for one whole week!!!
It was a party!
And pretty much all we did was hang out all day on the beach.
We played in the sand...
and ran, jumped and played in the waves...
We flew kites and launched water balloons...
Joe and Mark surfed...
and these two couldn't get enough of boogie-boarding...
The kids got a little brave out there in the water.
until Tommy got a little too brave, lost his footing and was stuck in a rip current. Mark (and another girl) swam out to help him. I got a little nervous because I could tell Mark kept trying to get him in and couldn't. It was scary!
I didn't know there were life guards on this beach, but there was one a ways down that saw Tommy through his binoculars (thank goodness)!He rescued them!
Whoa!! Talk about drama!!! It was crazy (and even worse to look at the pictures now and think what could have happened!) Tommy was relieved to be out of the water...
But he was exhausted!
He and Rachel headed back to the house to rest. About 5 mins later, a lifeguard came back and gave all the kids (and adults) a lesson on rip currents. It was awesome! We now know what to do if we are caught in one again (hopefully not!) . Swim to the side, NOT against the current!!
On a lighter note, one evening, Suzy took some family pictures on the beach.
In fact, we took LOTS of pictures!!
Rachel
Tommy
Sam
Megan
Jessica
Jacob
Maggie
Sophie
Wes
Truman
Kate
and last but not least, baby Grey!
Since there wasn't a lot to do for entertainment on this little island, we created our own. At night, if you take a flashlight to the beach, you can find tons of "ghost crabs" on the sand. After the kids were tucked in bed, Rachel and Tommy babysat while we had a couples crab hunting contest. Here's are some pictures of us in auto mode on my camera, thus the silly faces...
Mark and I were first. We had three mins to get as many crabs as we could.
It wasn't as easy as it looks. It was really, really dark and the crabs were really really fast! But Mark and I got six.
Here are the little beauties...
Next was Joe and Suzy...
They got two!
But Joe swore there must be another one in the sand hiding so we had to slowly empty out the bucket...
Nope, only two, so on to Mike and Marci...
They tied us with six.
But, we decided they won, they had a biggest crab. Yuck! But it was a good time!
Joe was the candy man....we had so much candy. I don't think I can ever eat a coconut m&m again! :)
And Suzy won the girls hearts with the candy bracelets!
I love these next pictures of Mark....heading to the beach 
and then relaxing on the beach...
because that really is what this vacation was about....heading to the beach and then relaxing and playing on the beach. The last night we enjoyed a beautiful thunderstorm and said goodbye to the beach house and a great vacation!
12 comments:
okay, your trip looked like sooo much fun!! makes me wish i was at the beach right now!
love your family pictures - seriously such a darling family!
and im so glad tommy is okay! so scary!
love you guys!
oh yeah...i love the last picture of all you guys outside the beach house. so cute!
awesome. awesome. AWESOME! I love that last picture too! And all the others!!! So glad Tommy was ok - how scary!! Everything else looks so fun and the crab competition made me laugh and laugh! Can't wait to see you all!!!!!!
That is an amazing vacation! How do I go about being adopted into your family so I can go next time? It looks like so much fun.
All of the pictures are amazing. Your family is so beautiful.
I'm glad you had a great vacation!
how fun!! Love all the pictures! That looks like a pretty sweet beach house!
Why does the Williams family only go on vacations to St. George? I am officailly joining the Truman family...that looks like a REAL vacation! I am going to give Tommy a huge hug the next time I see him!
coolest pictures ever! Hearing you talk about it made me want to go there someday.
um...we had the disadvantage during the crap contest--two team members freaked out about crabs! :) (love you Joe!) Seriously...we did have more until I dropped the bucket because they were going to crawl up my arm and joe and wasn't about to pick it up and either was I! SO FUN!
Oh my goodness...What an AWESOME trip! The pictures of you and your family on the beach are beautiful. The crab hunt looked so fun. What did you do with all the crabs?
I thought it was so cool that the lifeguard came back and gave a little lesson to all the kids. The Ocean can be very scary at times.
That house was amazing...I bet it was so hard to leave :(
Maria! It has been a while since I have been on here... so many great pictures! I had to see if you had pictures from your beach trip.. and WOW!
They area so great! So many fun pictures.. you are getting so good with your camera! Soon you will be hiring out!
Okay.. so I love the family pictures on the beach... my favorite is the one where you are all looking back at the camera... so cute! and I LOVE the one of the 5 kids sitting on the beach steps. So cute! Definitely Christmas card-esq. What a great trip!
And love the crabs!
Oh my word....what beautiful pictures!!! What beautiful families!!! I love the Lake Mead pictures too....they remind me of our family outings to Lake Mead...what happened to those days??? What a fun vacation...and way to document it with such great pics.....love you all!!
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