Monday Mugs - Summer Recap

What a fantastic, fun, busy summer. I'm not ready to say goodbye to summer just yet, but I am thrilled to share our Summer Recap!

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July 2010 Family trip to the Beach

Ahhh...Back to reality! I just came back from a fantastic trip to the beach. I took over a hundred pictures but these are some of my favorites that I wanted to share. I am sure many of the others ones will turn up during future posts, so don't worry..hehe.

I am amazed at how relaxing and tranquil the ocean and beaches are. I had such a wonderful time with the family, though we did have our interesting moments, but I will share that on True Story Tuesday ~ Stay tuned!!

I have had a great time catching up on the blogs I missed reading, though I didn't have much time to leave comments.

Enjoy my pictures and thanks for stopping by.

Ray getting in a little surf fishing.

My boys are excited and ready to go exploring.


Oh this was not a fun experience...Ray would build Nick a sand castle to play with and Adam would come along and step on it. Adam thought it was a fun game. Nick - not so much!!
In this picture, Nick is begging his brother to not step on his sand castle. Needless to say, Adam was banished to the other side of the blanket and only permitted to play with his own sand creations.



Digging for sand crabs was a big hit!

The same picture we took last year, just bigger boys! See post below before we left.

Those boys were hard to keep safe when the hard waves came crashing in.

Gearing up, lathering up, and heading out!

Nick and I before seashell hunting.

Looking for the perfect shell.

Just Beautiful!!!

A good picture of both boys!! (such a hard task)

The carnival and the pier - I have lots of fun pics of that to share later too!

Tune into tomorrow, on True STory Tuesday, to find out why Adam is in a stroller.

You can't have a trip with out an injury!! I just wished we could.

Ready for the mornings adventure.

Swimming at one fo the 4 pools our condo had. They met a great little guy that shared his toys and played so nice with them.

Smiling on the boardwalk.

So excited!!

It was awesome, hard to come home, and I want to go back.

I'd go back now if I could!!!

Summer is the BEST!

I LOVE SUMMER...IS THERE ANYTHING BETTER???

This is my list for why I think summer is the BEST ... what are your reasons?

Link up and let me know!!!

I love warm weather

It's easy to get the kids ready, no coats, hats, gloves, etc.

Vacations!! Especially visiting the beaches!

There is so much to do!!

My flowers are gorgeous and I can sit on my deck and enjoy them.

An adult beverage (or more) on hot summer evenings!

Swimming -my family LOVES water!

Not as strict of a schedule since hubby is off and the kids don't have school.

No daycare payments - WHO WHOOO!!!

Getting a sun tan!

Fireworks

1 week until our one week stay at our beach house!!

...and I could go on, and on, and on!!

I LOVE SUMMER!!! WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT IT??

Monday Mugs - Summer

This week's theme is summer ~ and my family LOVES summer.

Whether we are at an amusement park enjoying our rides or...

at the beach digging for sand crabs....

enjoying a carnival during a warm summer evening...


sometimes it's fun to visit neighbor's and enjoy their pool, but...



sometimes we enjoy summer by just being silly!!

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Have a good week everyone!!

Suprise Vacation!

Last Thursday I worked a half day and got off at 12 and off on Friday. I received a cell phone call at 12:10 and was told to come straight home for a surprise. I could hear the kids giggling and being excited in the background. When I got home Ray told me I had 1/2 hour to pack for a trip and to pack swiming stuff, the kids were already packed. We got in the car and I was kidnapped to an unknown destination. Little did I know, we were going to one of the most wonderful vacation I ever had. We went to Raytown Lake. It's a lake resort full of activities, boats, gorgeous scenary, and a peacefulness of the outdoors, without any commercialism. He had this planned for weeks and I was so proud of him for doing something like this. In 15 years of knowing him he has never planned a real vacation, I am always to vacation planner/coordinator!

Below are the highlights of our trip. I will warn you, it's a long post, but I just couldn't narrow down the pictures any more than I did to capture our 2 wonderful days - away from it all!

We just got out of the car and the kids were patiently waiting to go to the pool and waterpark!

Nick, my little fish, loved the pool and doing cannonballs !!

Adam was more cautious in the pool, but had fun playing on the steps and hanging on to the side.


This water park or, "sprinkler park" as Adam called it, was more his speed and everyone had fun playing between here and teh pool. In this pic they are getting wet from the big water bucket that fills up and then dumps the water out.

The awesome sprinklers and sprayers!!

Running throuhg the spraying frog - all 3 of my boys!

The outside of our room. It was nestled in the mountains and overlooked the lake. The view was breathtaking.

Pure Beauty!

My men at the boat marina.

This is the view from the balcony of our room. It was Ray and I's favorite place to be at night after the boys went to sleep. We just talked, had a few drinks, enjoyed the view, got some bugs bites, and loved each others company.

Me and Nick

What?! I'm ready, let's go to the beach.

The beautiful walk to the beach area.

Enjoying the beach water.

Huddling around the portable DVD player to watch a movie before bedtime. They were 2 very tired little boys and fell asleep very fast.


We had a great time. We still have a few more trips to enjoy before the summer fly's by! Next weekend we head out to Lancaster and Dutch Wonderland to stay adn play for a few days. I promise to share all of our summer fun with my blogs friends - it's looking to be a great summer!

What a Wonderful Weekend!!!

We had a perfect weekend. We took the kids on a suprise adventure. We loaded them in the SUV, put a long movie on the DVD players and we wouldn't tell them where they were going. Nick was very impatient for the suprise and guessed everything from Disney World to Hawaii, including the beach and the aquarium. We went to an awesome waterpark/amusement park!!

I forgot my camera, which I wouldn't have taken in the water area anyway, but below are pictures from their brochure.

Once the bucket filled up with the recycled water, it dumped on everyone in the pool area. REALLY COOL!

This water area was only about 1 1/2 feet deep. Perfect for Adam to be able to stand up and play.


Every button and knob on this huge playset squirted, shot, or sprayed water somewhere.


Ray and Nick loved the big tube slides.



A Great Time Had By All!!