Beachin' It!

 In early September, we took an overdue family vacation to Anna Maria Island. We spent Thursday-Sunday   at Coconut Vacations and wished it was longer. Before we left for vacation, my morning sickness was terrible! I was anxious about how much I'd be able to enjoy the vacation and boy was I surprised! I was up early Friday morning and just couldn't fall asleep. Daddy was the only other one up and he asked me if I wanted to walk the beach. I was hesitant since the mornings were my worst time but I went for it! We brought along my trusty saltines and had a great time. That morning was the best I had felt since finding out we were pregnant!

I took these pictures while on our 6 AM walk : )

Forrest and Lexi joined us on Friday. I was so glad to see them! The entire trip she was either sleeping in Forrest's lap or "sharing" food with Daddy!

  I came out from the kitchen cooking breakfast to find them "reading the paper."

We hit the beach for a few pictures! 

Our growing family at Sunset!

 

 If anyone is having bad morning sickness, go to the beach- IT WILL CURE YOU! At least it did for me : )

Goodbye for Now!

   We were sad to leave but I was so glad I got to spend a few days relaxing with my best friend!



Saturday in Paradise!

On Saturday, Forrest suggested we go shopping at Johns Pass. This is yet another reason I'm still savoring our time at the beach. My hardworking husband had no worries while we were away so he kicked his "spoil my wife rotten" plan up a notch. Every meal he let me pick and every idea he had was something he knew I would love!

Once we got back to our hotel in the afternoon, we hit the beach and stayed until right before sunset.

We walked on the pier and chatted with some local fishermen who said they just caught a 4 foot nurse shark! Who knows if this was true or fish tales?

FRIDAY!

Forrest asked me the night before to open the sliding glass door to the balcony so that he could wake to the sound of the ocean. Great idea...except for the fact that I woke up because the sun was shining in the room. I opened it up and sat on the balcony sipping my tea. I thought it was strange that no one was one the beach. Forrest rolled over and asked what time it was. I looked and realized it was 6:30 AM! Needless to say, I guess I should have checked the clock. Rest assured the next morning I closed the curtains so the sun didn't shine in quite so early!

Since Friday was our first full day at the beach, we played it low key. Our morning and afternoon was spent at the pool and beach. We spent the evening walking the beach.



Day of Arrival Thursday!

I haven't written about the beach until now because in my head we were still there. I was stuck in paradise- still dreaming of breakfast in bed, lunch overlooking the ocean and filet mignon for dinner?

 We stayed at our favorite hotel, The Doubletree. I could go on and on about how make we love it! It's clean and everyone is so friendly!

We checked in at 3 on Thursday and spent the day looking around the hotel and beach.

 I have no words to describe our view!

 There were people putting on their own firework show down from our hotel. We enjoyed watching from our balcony!



Beach Palooza

We are home from the beach but keep saying over and over again "Let's go back and stay just one more night!" The weather was perfect, the food was delicious! The last time we went to the beach was with SHS a year ago so it was a much needed vacation!

Lexi looked pitiful when we left!

Thank goodness Adam & Kendall stayed at our house while we were away. Thank you guys!

Daddy was craving seafood so we ate at the Friendly Fisherman. It was really good and had a great view!

Typical Shish Picture

The view from our room

Playing a little game of family football

Hanging out in our room on the last night....

...so sad to leave!

Beach Bums

We took a second trip to the beach two weeks after we were married with Forrest's family. It felt like a second honeymoon for us. We had a great time getting some sun with everyone. My favorite part was listening to Adam and Forrest play at night. The melody sounded was music to my ears. It was our first family trip together and we are looking forward to many more to come!

Yeah, yeah we pack A LOT!

St. Pete Beach

The Whole Group

Forrest and I playing ping pong at night

The Pa

Forrest, Adam and Luke hanging out by the water

Playing on the Playground with Luke