Sand, Sand, and more Sand

I think this is what we are going to be finding in our house over the next few days and maybe even weeks - ha!

This weekend we made our first beach trip of the season.  Jamie and Matt invited us to tag along for Ella's birthday party weekend.  I am not sure they really thought we would come when they invited us, but we are not ones to turn down an opportunity to go to the beach.

We headed to Destin and stayed at the Hilton SanDestin.  Some of you may remember last year we stayed at the SanDestin resort and did not have a good experience.  Well, the Hilton is in the SanDestin complex but on the beach side and run by Hilton.  It was so much better than we could have hoped for or expected.  The rooms were a good size, they had fridges and microwaves in the room, they provided beach towels so we didn't have to worry with our's, and there were so many other neat things the resort had to offer.

After last weekend I was apprehensive about Paige and the pool and the beach for that matter.  Boy was I wrong!!!  The girl absolutely loved all of it!  She even cried a little when Brad was taking her out of the ocean today.  It was a such relief that she loved it all.

Reading, "Happy Birthday, Pookie" so that we could practice saying Happy Birthday to Ella.

Friday night at Pompano Joe's  - SO GOOD!!!!!

Paige plopped herself down right on the sand, me on the other hand had to sit on a towel...to be a kid again

This pink thing is a "puddle jumper" and Paige did really well with it!

Can you tell she liked the water?

Sweet Myles and Jamie

Having fun in the pool

Sweet Grayson and Paige

The Birthday Girl, Ella, who turned 5.

Happy Birthday Ella!!

Now we are looking at our calendars trying to figure out when we can go back to the beach.  I don't think it will be soon enough!