Rain or Shine, The Beach is Fine

Saturday was Jacob's first day off this month and we decided that we would go to the beach. We checked the weather and it said there could be some showers but they won't last long. So we headed out. This is what the parking lot of the first beach we went to looked like.

We ate our little packed lunch in the car, and waited a few more minutes and decided to drive a little more to another beach near by in hopes of better weather. That turned out to be a great decision.

The kids couldn't wait to get out of the van and go play in the sand and water. We immediatley started with building sand castles. This quickly got old when no one could get a castle bigger than 2 buckets.

And so we moved on to burying one another. Everyone took their turn, except mom or course, because someone had to take the pictures.

Once everyone had been buried it was down to the water to wash off and play. We played in the water for quite some time and the kids absolutely loved it.

Kristian then wanted to be buried again; he kept throwing sand on his legs until we got the hint. The kids thought it would then be fun to pour water on the sand he was buried in which he was all to happy to splash in. This of course creating the result of having to be cleaned off again, several times over.

Eventually the burial site was turned into a private pool for Kris to play in on the shoreline that would fill up each time the waves came in. He splashed and splashed and was in baby paradise. Then I noticed that his legs were a bit on the purple side and we decided it was probably time to go warm up.

We headed back to the towels and then back to South Bend. Once there we stopped at Big Lots to get a BBQ (I have missed having a BBQ and making my husband cooks all of the summer meals) and stopped for hamburgers and milkshakes. Oh yes, the kids slept well that night.

All in all, A great first day off!!