beach, baby!

you can tell the busy summer we've had by my lack of blogging lately. it's been a good, long summer. We've played and partied and traveled and just tried to be intentional about spending time with each other as a family, as well as building into friendships with others.

we spent a few days at the beach before school started. it rained and was overcast for much of the week, but that just fed into our desire to be low-key. it was an absolute blast! here are two pictures we took the first afternoon we were there...

caden and laura grace are old pro's in the sand. i knew they would have a blast, but i wasn't sure about Timothy. He has been to the beach one other time (remember this:)

so this year, we are walking, running, trying to swim, and all other sorts of adventurous things. here are a few pictures from our latest trip!

and, of course, we have the obligatory family beach pictures. i'll have to say, with the help of our friends Brad and Courtney, we were able to capture a few good ones (and by a few, i mean 5 out of the 250 we took!). my favorite cousin Page did a few magic edits on them and we were in business :) you'll probably see these in the banner and design of my blog sometime... not soon. it may be three more months before i update it again!

our good friends, Brad and Courtney (Bwad and Cwortney as LaLa would say) were able to join us for a few days and i snapped a few shots of them. they are our favorite, non-blood "aunt and uncle." they don't have kids, but love ours... somethings wrong with them :)

and of course... a few bloopers, just for the ones of you who really don't know me and need confirmation that we AREN'T a perfect family.