Beach Bums

Kiera is fascinated with the beach. In fact, she loves it...a lot. So, when we told her we were going to surprise Grandma for her birthday, Kiear asked, "Can we go to the beach?"

Grandma was such a good sport that she devoted part of her birthday surprise time to take her grandchildren to the beach.



The girls were pretty excited, but they did stop long enough for me to take one picture before running down to the beach.



No excitement on that face is there? Kaylee immediately started playing in the sand.



Unfortunately, I don't have any shots of us wading in the waves or building a sand castle. My dad took those shots. I couldn't exactly handle a camera and jumping with the girls in the Gulf of Mexico-at least not without damaging my camera.

We had a great day to play. It was cloudy with the threat of rain, so we didn't burn up. We did get chased out of the water by a rain storm, but that happened right at noon. We didn't have to fight the girls in getting them out of the water or off the beach!!!

We had a picnic lunch and then climbed an observation tower.



The girls enjoyed the view from up high. We all jumped into the Suburban and took off back to my parents home. Of course, the girls fell asleep. My parents ended up getting over 2 inches of rain while we were gone. Wish they could have sent some up to us in Cat Spring.