Gulf Shores

We took a family vacation to Orange Beach, Alabama in July/August.  Ben's sisters and families all went.  Here's some highlights:

We dropped our stuff off in the condo and headed straight to the beach.  Here's a pic of all of us (minus me- I'm behind the camera!)

 Ben's sister- Jennie's family.  Jennie, Wyatt, and Walt

 Ben and the boys first time in the ocean!

 Henry didn't like it....  He'd rather be on the sand.

 Oliver attacked it- he loved it!

 Wade went in, but only to his knees.  He'd get in, jump over a few shallow crested waves and then ask me "Did you see how I rocked that wave??!!"

 Ben finally coaxed Henry to get in if he held him.  Thumbs up :)

 Ben's other sister- Jessie's family.  Jessie, Joe, and Oliver.  Hunter was busy riding waves.

 Wyatt wasn't loving the ocean either.

 You could almost always catch Wade digging up shells.

 I'll let these next 3 pictures do the talking- it makes me laugh every time.  :)

 Hunter and Oliver building in the sand.

 Daddy, Wade, and Henry made a sandcastle.

 We spent a little time in the pool.  Walt threw Hunter so high in the air!

 And that's Wyatt way up there almost touching the ceiling.  haha!

 At night we saw a bunch of people on the beach with flashlights- so we thought we'd join them.  We weren't sure what we were looking for, so we asked some people.  They had a bucket full of these little creepy white crabs- no bigger than my fingernail.  Here's Wade holding the one he caught!

 Daddy and his boys

 Oliver, Wade, and Henry playing in the sand.

 Daddy took a "nap" on the beach, and we took the opportunity to bury him.  The boys loved it.

 Ben and I took some time to try our hand at boogie boarding.

 We took some family pictures while we were there.  I love how they turned out.

 I told the boys to put their hands in their pockets- little did I know, Henry's pants didn't have pockets.  He was mad for the rest of the morning that he didn't have pockets.  So, that means no good pics of the boys, but we sure tried!  :)

It was a really fun vacation.  I hope the boys will remember it.  They each got to buy something at the souvenier shop- and they picked out shark tooth necklaces.  We also collected some seashells to remember the trip. 

:)