BEACH-a-licious................

These four lucky kids just spent 14 days together at the beach!! And the parents actually survived it!!!!! Although tough at times, challenging other times, crazy many times and LOUD all the time, it really was great...........Memories that will forever be cherished. It was tough trying to pick just some of the pictures to post............with over 500 to choose from and already way late on summer postings, I figured something was better than nothing!

Of course my fearless son goes right for the crab..........

We had barely pulled into the driveway when they were begging to see some surf and sand......So suitcases aside, off we marched to the beach..........

And then bright and early (12pm.......breakfast, cartoons, sunscreen, lunches prepared, cooler packed, dog walked, on and on and on) we got our first full day of beach!!

There was a beautiful and completely empty community right up the street. It's a part of the Watercolor community but unfortunately was built during the NOT SO booming realestate market............so, great for pics, not so great for their busines!

Hmmmmm.......dare devils and sass...........Lord, help me!

Our first week, the weather wasn't too sunny, which actually worked out great for the kids (and the hubby's) skin............

I love this action shot! The kids thoroughly enjoyed playing in the waves................

On Friday, we rented a pontoon boat that we took out for the day...........I am not sure I have ever done that on the ocean but I promise you I will do it AGAIN! It was fantastic.......We anchored at Shell Island and spent all day in knee deep water, finding tons of shells, small sting rays, sandollars and we might have actually spotted a small shark.......and by we I mean Laura, since I was too busy trying to scale up the side of the boat as soon as she thought she saw it!

We really had so much fun!! As was most of the week, we dealt with a few storms........Thanks to our boat Captain, Mr. Jason, We stayed ahead of most of the rain............As we were trying to out run one of the rain showers, we found ourselves in the middle of a pod of spinner dolphins! It was truly breathtaking and I still can't believe the pictures I got! This was no zoom lense......they were this close!

After a full day on the boat, we headed to Dockside for fantastic shrimp and ice cold beer......And shirly temples for the little ones!

Dockside is right at the Marina in Port St. Joe..........so much fun watching all the boats come in with the fresh catch of the day!

It really was great being at the beach.........And I do love me some beach time as well as friend and family time!

While we were walking around, we ran into this little guy. I, of course, thought it was a shark. It was a cat fish......who knew they were in the ocean!!

So on Sunday, we said goodbye to the daddy's and hello to single motherhood..........with four kids............and decided to treat ourselves to a nice lunch at Schooners in Panama City Beach!!

It was just like the old days.........No, it really wasn't. In the old days, I was single, younger, much skinnier and didn't have to even look at the kids menus!!

Since we loved Dockside so much, we decided to go back and it was soooo yummy!

no clue why this is turned sideways, figures, right? it's the one of two pictures I think I am actually in!! ha!

We had a fantastic time, and I really have so many more pics to go through and many more stories to tell..........