A Day at the Beach as a Family!!!

We took the kids to the beach on May 31th to let them play and just have fun! They love getting to be outside and the last time we took them to the beach was over a year ago and they hated the water, but this year they loved it!!! They had so much fun running through the waves and jumping when the waves came in! They loved getting to play with the sand buckets and shovels that we took with us! It is so much fun to get to enjoy the beautiful weather and spend this time together as a family! We even took time and walked along the beach and looked for shells! I found 2 perfect shells that I plan on making a necklace out of. One is small and will be for Kayla and one is big and will be for me! Kayla was so excited to see all the shells we found!

The beach water was so clear that day you could see the sand under your feet when walking into the water! It was so amazing as all the years I have been to Galveston I have never seen it so clear up near the shore. We saw Jelly fish swimming which was good so we could get out of the way and not get stung, but we lifted the kids completely out of the water when we saw them. I wasn't taking any chances, but the kids got to see the jelly fish while we held them out of the water!

After a couple hours of playing and mom taking over 400 pictures (and I am not kidding) we went under our shade and sat in our chairs and had a picnic as a family. After the kids finished eating they were getting tired, but also they started getting cold from just sitting there and not running around, so we decided that we should just pack up and head home! They did take a nap and then were ready to play some more!

So over all we had a great day as a family and we plan to do that more often this summer! The next time though I plan on finding a beach site that number one is FREE (yes we had to paid to get on this public beach) and number two is clean and not full of beer cans and broken glass all over the place. I was not to happy to pay and then go find that they can't even keep the beach clean for us! Sorry I just needed to vent!

I won't post all the pictures, but here are a few for you to enjoy and see how much fun the kids had! By the way, I love my new camera and the pictures that we get from it! It is great!!!

Jumping the waves with daddy! They loved it and just smiled the whole time!!!

I Love this picture of them both running through the water!

Look at this face! Just so adorable!!!! I love this little man!!!!!

This is the most beautiful girl in the world!! I love her so much!!!!

Showing his shell that we picked up!

Kayla showing me all of her's that we all picked up! She wanted them all in her bucket.

Just some beautiful water! It was so clear!!!

Getting cold and ready to go home!!