Da' Beach

We made it to Navarre Beach this weekend, we had a blast. Lately I've been bad about remembering the camera, but in this case it's not that I forgot it, but rather that it fell out of the bag in the van when we loaded or in route to. So I'm one step closer than I was to having some good shots of my sweet family.

I am happy to report that the oil hasn't hit Navarre Beach yet. They have close Perdido Key last Wed., which is on the West side of P-cola, where as Navarre is on the East Side. I suppose it is only a matter of time. It was nice to be able to enjoy it, for what may be the last time in a while. We swam on the sound side (no waves) the kids love it! Plus I can just sit in the shallow water and keep and eye on all. Mike got to fly his new kite that he got for Christmas. It is a fancy 2-handle one, he finally got the hang of it and enjoyed it, so that was enjoyable. One of my favorite activities was getting snow cones, deee-lish! I can't get enough ice and well ice with flavor, yummm-o!

Something funny about Shiloh. We had to walk a little way to a part of beach that was not so dense with people, our preference. To take the "short way" back to the van we had to cut through some reeds. The whole way Shiloh was dodging anything that may touch her, and if it was unavoidable she would daintily grab it with her thumb and index finger and place it out of her way. If she happen to miss anything and it touched her leg, she would let out an ouch, or an ohh, or an "oh no" the whole way she was talking her self through this experience, i was laughing and shaking my head most of the time in amusement at my little lady. I was staying back with her as the boys pressed on. At one point I said "come on you slow poke", and her reply was "i'm not a slow poke, you're a fast poke". Then as we neared the edge of the shrubbery I started to encourage her that we had almost made it and once I was through I got even more encouraging to her hoping to increase her speed, which I don't think worked, but once she got all the way out, she crouched down and jumped up and said "that was awesome!" She is a mess, but such a joy at the same time.