Beach Boys

July 18-25, 2011: We spent a glorious week soaking up the sun in our favorite vacation destination, Destin, Florida. We stayed at our tried and true Seaspray Condos with the extended fam. With over 600 pictures, it was hard to choose...below are a few that made the cut!

Could they be any cooler?

Playing football with Uncle Chris. Alex was in heaven with
a full week of football on the beach.

Alex zipped through 3 books this week...Carter continued

to memorize the pictures in this Star Wars book.

Tubing! I love this shot!

Chillaxin' under the umbrella with Mimi and Papa.

Check out Papa's crazy sunburn!

Time to hit the waves!

Alex loved boogie boarding...

...Carter loved to scream!

A true Jedi never leaves home without his lightsaber!

Dead fish starting washing ashore on the last day.

Gathering and burying were on the agenda.

LOVE THIS!

Having a serious planning meeting...

The end result...Sponge Bob! We are soooo commercialized!

Hanging at the pool with Natalie. Unfortunately, Carter still prefers

the pool to the beach. Chris and Wendy (the rockstars of uncles and aunts)

earned our undying gratitude for letting him tag along with them!

One of our favorite restaurants. Papa has the magic

ability to get us in without a wait!

We celebrated Wendy's 33rd birthday with a cook-out and whiffle ball!

We had one rainy day so we headed to Destin Commons.

Hard Rock for lunch then to the Rave for "Mr. Popper's Penguins."

Carter was so excited that he was finally old enough to DRIVE

the go-carts this year!

We had professional pictures made with the entire family.

I snapped a few while the photographer was snapping hers!

Too sweet!