...more of the beach:)

As I sit here writing this blog, my suntan is fading, my leg, which I burned, is peeling and I'm hot because it's 90-something degrees today. All that is to say that I wish I was back at the beach! All the signs of the beach are beginning to fade away...so I guess that means it's time to go back;)! Here are some pictures from the second half of our trip:

Alley caught a "fish" and proudly held it for the camera (all the while yelling "it's moving!")

we took an afternoon off from the beach and went to the pool. Alley absolutely loved getting to swim in the "big pool". Kendall was very upset to not be able to go in it because of a silly rule about kids with swim diapers not allowed in the pool...oh well:)

Mimi reading to Kendall before bed. Kendall had a word explosion this week while at the beach! She was constantly bringing books over to people and saying "boook, boook". She also identifies turtles ("a-tur") and is constantly looking for them, she points out birds ("buuuurd"), and asks for her milk by name ("miiik"). She also calls people by their name pretty well and several other words too:)

must be a serious book about animals;)

lounging in her beach chair during morning snack...aahhh, this is the life

Alley playing hop-scotch....or more liking jumping around all over the place in Alley's world

Kendall trying to play

this is pretty much how Kendall spent her time in the sand...rolling around and right in the center of everything!

breeching the wall of the fort...watch out world!

she apparently wanted back in and threw herself over the wall...which she thought was hilarious and kept doing it over and over again.

Kendall's new favorite thing...sitting on Alley. I can't say it's Alley's favorite, but she was a trooper for sure!

lounging and telling everyone to "shhh"....what? are we being too loud out at the beach??!! ;)

hanging out with Uncle John after a long day at the beach

trying to get a picture of the two...which was extremely difficult!

apparently Kendall thought it was a good time to take a quick cat-nap on Alley

my mini-me

An attempt at a family photo...can I tell you how many shots we took and we still don't have everyone smiling or looking at the camera...go figure;)

taking a break from life;)

Mimi and her watermelons...so cute

Andy and his mini-me

story-time again in the beach house...oh Mimi is certainly loving this!

Mary Tanner getting a turn at reading stories to the wild ones

Yes, girls, we all feel like this when we finally get home after a full day of traveling....duuuuhhhh....I wanna go back!!

We are off to re-adjust to living without a pool nearby and without the ocean beckoning us every morning. Oh, believe me, it still beckons, but I think I'm going to have to wait until next year...

Kiawah 2011

We had so much fun last week at the beach. We look forward to this vacation every year and it was so wonderful to be able to go early this year. Usually we all go over July 4th, but due to my pregnancy and not being able to travel that far that late, my whole family graciously changed their schedules to accommodate me. Yes, I do have a fabulous family;) Anyway, June is the time to go! It was beautiful, the water was amazing and there weren't a lot of people there. I'm advocating for a June beach trip again...maybe I'll just have to be pregnant again..Haha! Wow, did I just say that??!!

The girls absolutely looooved the beach. We were able to spend more time out at this beach this year because we cut out Kendall's morning nap (which we have now had to add back in...grumpy thing;) We had loads of fun running and splashing in the waves, belly-flopping and just plain rolling around in the surf. I believe my children are half fish...not that I minded at all:) I took so many pictures this year that I'm going to have to do a couple posts to get a small portion of them up! Here are some from the first couple of days.

Wearing her hat the first day...and looking oh so serious at something...probably staring at Papa or daddy while they do something silly

Kendall just enjoying the view and the waves...she absolutely loved getting hit by the waves...it was hilarious!

waiting for her next wave to come...oh the anticipation is too much;)

begging Uncle John and daddy to take her out deep

oh the joys of splashing

I just got hit by a wave and it was awesome;)!!

laughing at something...this was definitely something we all did lots this week

 her hat kinda looks like a cowboy hat now

 whatcha doin....

watching with daddy

I got my purse, are yall ready to go?!

fine, if no one will take me out in the ocean, I'll take myself!

ooooo, a snail! I can't tell you how many times Kendall would go dig up a snail and bring it to me...oh the joys;)

Oh I looooove getting hit by waves! This is too much fun!!! Check out that face:)

my three favorites having fun in the waves

Kendall had a new obsession. Whenever Alley would sit down or even look like she was about to sit down, Kendall would run over and sit in her lap...it was too funny

bathing beauty...also waiting for a wave to hit her...

a game of tag in the surf

  

she found the joys of mud baths...she just loves to get dirty...whose child is this;)

playing nicely...I hope this becomes a trend...SOON!

my little mermaids

our favorite activity right now...acting like dogs, or "buppies" as Kendall calls everything!

I thought this was hilarious! I have no clue what she is doing but I captured it:)

another crazy/cute face from the week

Stay tuned for more pictures from the week:)

Summer has begun!

Woo-hoo! Summer vacation officially started at 1pm on Friday June 3rd for the McPherson family!! It couldn't have come any sooner;) Friday was my last day at work...and when I say last, I don't mean just for 2 months...as most of you all know, I resigned from my position to stay at home with the girls. It was a very hard decision to make since I enjoy what I  do, but my family comes first and this is what Andy and I felt was best for our girls. So, to kick summer off right, our beach trip was moved to the day I officially finished work...and man, what a way to kick off summer vacation!! We had a blast! I have so many pictures to go through so it'll take me some time before I can get a good beach post up, but I thought I'd leave you with a few from our first day.

Here's the whole crew going down to the water

my big girl enjoying the waves

cheesy thing...but oh how this girl LOVED the ocean!

Stay tuned as I will be posting more pictures of the beach over the next few days!:) Happy summer to all!!