Beach Days 3&4

Years and years of friendship right there...love you Em :)

It is so fun that the kiddos are getting older and enjoying wiffle ball and fishing and bike riding...crazy how different than it was the first year we came!  (And p.s. I'm addicted to instagraming my pictures. :))

One of their cheerleaders:

I even got a little time to put my nose in a book...and as mentioned a couple of posts ago, this is good stuff.  Tough but g.o.o.d.  One that needs to be revisited often in this faith walk we travel.

B thought it would be a good idea to rent bikes this year for the first time.  Although there were some skeptics (me, Randy, Dormans, eg), he was right on.  We rode every day and had so much fun going to Coligny or just for ride or calming the babies on the beach or entertaining the bigs on our street.  It was great and worth every penny.  We went days without even getting into our cars.  My kind of vacation :)

Just as lovely and relaxing as it looks :)

Rode down for ice cream after dinner that night and then some evening time on the beach...sad that day 3 is already gone!

Unintentional matching :).  Love the Evans love...

The weather was interesting this year.  Nice temps in the mid 80s and lots of periods of good sunshine, but some portion of threatening rain or storm almost every day.  We watched a funnel cloud form over land one day, a tough storm over the water another day and then crazy sand/wind storms that we've never seen...but it only rained on us once.  All in all, we were thankful that it wasn't in the 100s with no relief and enjoyed the little bit of cloud cover without having to be inside too much for rain like last year.

Digging, building and catching fiddler crabs :)

Our hangout every day...with the addition of bikes this year :)

Cooper fam...super cute and sweet!

Serious wiffle ball playing...

Meanwhile, girl time at the tent :)

Papa helped us out with some fishing gear after we enjoyed it so much this spring at Jekyll...B and the kiddos loved it :)

After naps, Greer sweetly spent some time reading and teaching Garner & Callie at the house :)

Cutie Cooper bike pic...this time we decided to head to the splash pad for a little while and it turned out to be a ton of fun!

Heading back to the house via the beach...indescribable beauty, Lord!

Gehr and I ended up together for most of the mile back...I love time with him :)

Finished the night with a little swim...

...and some bribery for Garner's affection.

It worked!

Amazing!  And so much fun :)