Family Gulf Shores Trip 2012

We spent last week in Gulf Shores with my extended family for our annual trip to Gulf Shores!  It was so much fun this year, going from one little boy and two babies to three little kids!  I think we spent 14 hours a day on the beach!  17 folks, ranging from 87 years old to 15 months old in a 7 bedroom house for 5 nights=FUN!!!

Kaleigh, 15 months and Alec, 4 years old

This may be my all time favorite picture of these two!

Alec playing in the water with Uncle Art and Cousin Will

They ran for HOURS on the beach!!  Needless to say, they slept great on vacation!

Nothing cuter than a pink tutu swim suit!

Digging a hole for brother to sit in!

Brother's buried in the hole!

Daddy and his babies!

We went to the Gulf Shores Zoo and got to play with some really cute monkies!

Sister LOVED sitting in her own beach chair with Mimi!

We went to The Track for Go-Carts and Amusement Rides, needless to say, all Kaleigh liked was the "grocery store" type quarter rides without the motion!

Ready, Set, RACE!

Daddy and Alec at Lulu's!  We ate at Lulu's twice, the Crab Melt is to die for!!

Mom with our own little "Lulu" at Lulu's!

Sister, it looks like you're playing a trick on the boys!

Sister is the Queen of the Candy Bowl!

Will got a trike for an early birthday gift from his Mimi and Pop-T.  Alec loved riding his "passengers" around!

Football on the beach at sunset!

My motto of the week was "No Chi, No Makeup, No problem!!" Ha!!

Kaleigh loved sleeping on the floor and playing with brother at bedtime!

Alec and his Great Grandmother, such a sweet picture!  He is the most loving child ever!

A birthday celebration for our September ladies, Grandmother, Sonya and Mrs. Jeanette!

Red Rover on the beach with Nana and Paps!

Kaleigh was really trying to talk dad into taking her on his golf outing!

Yes, the waves were so big, we wore life jackets!!  Don't laugh, you would have too! :)

Running on the beach!

This is what happens when you refuse to hold hands!!  She was determined to do it by herself!  She LOVED the waves tossing her around!

"Endless Summer" our 2012 house

2012 Family Beach Picture!

What a difference a week can make!!!

We spend a fun last weekend of August at the camp a few weeks ago.  A storm was in the gulf, so we had to do lots of moving stuff upstairs and getting ready for high water.  But we still got in LOTS of fun while we were there!

Miss. Priss really enjoys the camp!

 

Sometimes a girl just has to get a nap, even if it is on the HARD bottom of the boat!

Driving the boat with dad!

 

Love this picture, I can remember LOVING to ride on the front of my parents boat as a kid!  I love the fact that my kids can grow up loving the water as much as I do!

We love our dress Maggie Moore!  Please let us know when you have another garage sale! ;)

We even fit in a little jet ski riding!

Then, came the STORM!!  A few short days after we left the camp, things looked like this due to Hurricane Issac!!  Thankfully, this is as high as the water got and we had no major damage, just LOTS of mud, trash and a burned up power box. 

We had LOTS of rain in Sumrall from the storm as well, so the tree house, or bug house as it's called by Alec and Drew, was turned into a MAJOR mud pit!

A little mud doesn't hurt a pretty little girl!

Helping to build their "bug house"!

I think Kaleigh ended up MUCH muddier than the boys did!

MUDDY SMILE!