Spring Break 2015

Spring Break was so much fun this year! I don’t know if it’s because the weather was warm and it actually felt like spring break or if we were just needing a break so badly that made it great! Probably a little of both. :)

Nie-Nie & Kels took the oldest grands to the beach on Monday. AB was excited to get to join them and had such a fun time. They ate candy and junk and went shopping for prizes, saw a movie, played in the ocean, swam in the pool and stayed up late both nights.

On Wednesday morning, Mamie, Tucker & I headed that way, too!

We enjoyed some pool time that afternoon, while waiting on AB’s buddy, Emma and her mom to get there.

We all had dinner together at Red Robin before Nie-Nie, Kels, Elliot, Tay & Warren all headed back home.

AB was so excited to be staying the rest of the week at the beach and even more excited to have Emma with us!

Thursday morning, we hit the beach as soon as everyone was up and suncreened. We beached all morning, had ice cream from the ice cream truck, enjoyed the pool in the afternoon and all got a nap in before dinner.

We had dinner at the Roadhouse that night and then went down to the boardwalk. I was hoping to let the kids ride the ferris wheel, but after paying our $10.00 to park, unloading everyone and waiting in line for tickets, we found out the ferris wheel wasn’t running that night. Nice. At least we ended the night with hot Krispy Kremes. Everything is better at the beach, ESPECIALLY hot doughnuts. It was the perfect beach day and the best part – we woke up Friday to do it all over again!

AB & Emma had the best time playing in the waves – they’d play for a while, then come up to where we were sitting and play in the sand for a while, then get back in the ocean.

Mames was scared of the ocean this trip. She stuck to playing in the sand!

Tucker loved everything! He watched the waves and birds and the girls playing. He ate half his body weight in sand and was the easiest baby the whole trip. He napped every day under the umbrella.

After another fun in the sun day, Crystal & Emma packed up and headed home. We had such a great time with them and were so glad they could come.

The rest of the weekend was family time! DW got there around 8:00 that night, bearing ice cream surprises. :)

Tucker enjoyed the view and ice cream with Daddy that night.

We followed our normal beach routine… beach, pool, naps.

That evening, we tried a different restaurant for dinner and really enjoyed it.

Sunday we walked down to the pier for breakfast. Tucker napped, while I packed us up and DW took the girls to the pool. We hated saying good-bye to the beach, but summer hasn’t even started yet, so I’m sure we’ll see plenty of it over the next few months.

Such a GREAT Spring Break! (& now we’re SERIOUSLY counting down the days until school is OUT!)

~amw~