Jacksonville Beach

We had a great weekend at the beach. Here are a few of the pictures from our weekend. There were literally thousands to choose from! I was only able to upload a few because looking through them while the car is moving made me a little motion sick! I am able to blog right now by looking out the window in front of me and type (hopefully I don't have too many typos).



Ethan and Grandma enjoying the waves. Ethan liked to go out really deep. He kept saying "only a little bit further". The water would be too your chest and you had to told him up. He loved the waves crashing into him.

Jacob didn't like going as far out, but he loved the boogie board. He was really good!

Poor Papa and Grandma are going to be exhausted when we leave!

Noah also loved going on the boogie board. I enjoyed going out with him "to the third wave" as he called it. Then he would nod and say "yeah this one is ours". It was a lot of fun. The last day at the beach he made friends. He will tell you he had 2 friends (a boy and girl-13 year old twins). They were small for their age, just a little shorter than Noah (9 1/2). I would say he only had 1 friend. 90% of the time he was only playing with the little girl -Shelby. Her brother was off doing other things. He really wanted to go up to their room (uh....no). He had a really good day with them but he got VERY sunburned. The poor boy has never been sunburned so he made sure to really burn himself. We diligently applied sunblock, but I was a bad mama and I didn't have him wear a shirt. His little brothers all wore their swim shirt, but like I said he never burns. I feel terrible!

We were sure that Mason would love the beach. We thought he would tot along the beach, pick up seashells and think the waves were fun. This was not the case at the beginning. It took him awhile to warm up to the idea of the beach but he finally would sit in someone's lap and play in the water.

We had some great meals as well. We went to Joe's Crab Shack, a Japanese Steak House, and a nice Seafood Restaurant on the water.

At the Japanese steakhouse Mason sat still for the first time at a Restaurant. He loved the Chef cooking in front of. Noah was able to catch a piece of broccoli in his mouth. Jacob and Ethan tried but the chef missed their mouth. The chef also tricked Noah by pretending to fumble a bottle and then accidentally squeeze it. Noah thought he was going to get some sort of sauce on him, but it was a trick bottle.

It was a fun weekend! Today we are waiting to pick up my sister Jenny and her husband Jude from the airport. We then have some busy days in Georgia, going to the swamp then back to the beach! I love vacation!