A week of fun in the sun

We are home recovering from our week long visit to New Jersey. We enjoyed lots of time at the beach and laying by the pool. The trip started with a night drive trying to take advantage of the fact the kids might sleep. For the most part they did, but once we got to Grandma and Pop Pop's at 3:30, they decided it was time to stay up. They did for sometime but Mom & Dad got them to sleep

while Terrance and I caught a few ZZZ's.

Once we got settled in and after some coffee, Colin got to show off his bike skills on the sidewalk. Or the concrete as he calls it since we don't have anything fancy like that here at our house. We spent some time at the playground and then had a big dinner with the uncles and aunts. It was one of many that week. The next big dinner was of course my favorite because it involved seafood, mainly clams. Nothing beats hanging out at my parents with some cold beers and some steamed clams. We enjoyed both. Thank you mom & dad for the endless gift card to Super Liquor.

The beach was not as I remembered. I brought a book and music and got to enjoy neither. It's up and down, back and forth, in the water, out of the water. Where's Dalton, where's Ian; there goes Colin. I got to pee, I'm hungry, he took my shovel. Not a whole lot of peace at the beach with 3 children. But lots of fun watching them go in the water and then realizing that the water comes and it goes with the waves. Chasing sea gulls, digging in the sand and soaking up the sun. We even managed to get Uncle Walt, Uncle Chris and Aunt Amy to the beach where they do not frequent. The boys played with their cousins Andrew and Molly reminding us of the days when we played on the beach with our cousins.

All in all it was a great vacation, Terrance relaxed and evened out his tan, Colin got to ride his bike on actual sidewalks, Dalton helped Uncle Tim pick up chicks at the beach and Ian went into the ocean for the first time and loved it. I even managed to finish the book I started in the beginning of the week on the car ride home. As soon as I unpack all of the suitcases, we can start to think about doing it again next year.