Beach

I've been saying for about a week now I was going to post about this, so here we go.

All last week we were in Santa Rosa, FL with my family. Man did we have great weather and a great time! Can't believe when we come down next year there will be 4 of us!

It was so nice to escape work but after checking my email on Monday apparently all hell broke loose. Pure panic and SOO many email chains. Therefore I spent all Monday calming everyone down...putting fires out.

But back to our trip. The drive wasn't too bad because we stopped in Birmingham to sleep. Other good investment, a portable DVD player. Little man sat and watched Cars for about 2 hours then passed out for 2 hours....perfect for our 4 hour drives. (I was really worried, he's not a fan of long trips anymore. Plus I would have heard "Car! Car! Car!" the whole time. lol)

The first couple of days he would just cry and cry as soon as we would hit the soft sand and if sand got on his hands and feet he was NOT happy! But he got used to it, he really thought it was fun to throw sand on everyone. And LOVED destroying sandcastles! We even captured a few pouts and meltdowns....not a true day if we didn't capture that :-)

He absolutely loved the water this year! Constantly saying "Wa Wa" and pointing. Too bad we had red flags all week or we would have gone in real deep, but none the less he enjoyed the waves hitting him. Thankfully there were puddles in the sand and a run-off for Little man to enjoy. It was like a bath for him. Nothing was better than to see him running down the beach just splashing about.

He's totally rocking a farmers tan now!

Mad these pictures are blurry. Took them on our walk down the beach. My lens kept fogging up. Oh well they still are quite cute!

We didn't eat out much but the places we did go to were so YUMMY! Cafe 30A (a must), Elmo's (Aiden enjoyed running around), and Bud & Alleys (mine and Wes' date lunch.)

But the best part of the trip was to see Aiden interact with everyone. Been about a year since he'd seen my brother and his wife, and since Thanksgiving since he'd seen my sister and her hubby. And will probably be another year till he sees them again since we won't be going anywhere for the holidays this year due to the new arrival, which really upsets me but nothing I can do. His favorite phrases of the week were "Puppies!" (Everyone but us had their dog at the house. He LOVED that! Not too sure the dogs loved it as much.) and "Where he'd go?....Right there" (if anyone left the room he would say that and go on a hunt to find them.)

The last night we were there we headed to Harbor Docks for an airplane and firework show. This was the 1st time Aiden had seen fireworks, and did he love them. "Ohhhhhhhh Ahhhhhhh Whhhhooooa!" then his shocked noise that I can't really type you just have to hear it. Oh and did I mention that we seriously changed a diaper in 2 seconds. We had his bathing suit and Swimmers on....well he pee'd alot. So much it was dripping down his leg. The bad mommy I am forgot to pack shorts so he watched the show in a diaper, crocs, and a tshirt.

It was such a great trip I just hated to leave, hence why it took me 2 days to unpack. Denial. lol