Wonderful Beach vacation

Papa and EJ .. the morning we left for Corpus. We stayed at Pam's to break up the drive.
Come one RAIN! Everything was so dry in the hill country we thought we might help out and try to get some rain.. it obviously did not work.
Relaxing on day one.. is one nice place view to wake up too.
EJ doing a rain dance.. praying for rain!

Day one of the vacation... typical family picture.. but the only one. Cowgirl EJ
The view drinking coffee in the morning.. we had to leave this to go to the beach.. life is rough!:)

Wyatt surfing in... barely see him, but I was so proud he did it the first time.
kisses
Paddling out..
The boys and EJ in the middle..


Wait for me!
The first time Wyatt saw the beach during the day. We went crab hunting the night before, and saw several sand crabs.. He was in awe and ran as fast as he could to get in.
My beach babies
Digging sand "princess" castles
Sea slugs.. these were very entertaining.. you fill up your bucket with a hand full of these with some sand and watch them disappear. It provided lots of entertainment for EJ!

• We had a wonderful break from the dessert scenery this past week. We went down to see my best friend growing up (my Emily) and her family and enjoyed every minute of being on the beach and in the water. There is something so peaceful about being on the beach... barefoot and you can care less what you look like in your "grandma" bathing suit as my BFF of 30 years and husband told me on day one.... One thing about vacation, you know no matter how bad you feel there is always someone else who makes you feel better by the life size, stretched tattoo, or gorilla hair, or bigger gut than yours.. how mean is that? And why do I even care?! Anyways, we had a blast. I got rid of the grandma suit on day 2 and loosened up quite a bit. The guys went deep sea fishing.. Emily and Ryan have a great boat.. the kids are going to be completely spoiled after this trip bc a boat in our vocabulary fits behind a car.. this one was 60 feet with three bedrooms, full kitchen, living room and satellite tv. Bragging.. yes, bc it was so much fun and extremely nice of them to take such great care of us. Zach caught a red snapper, Ryan (Em's husband) caught a blue marlin.. Z came back with a new adrenalin rush and new love for deep sea fishing.I always thought it was kind of boring, but the way he describes it, it sounds exciting. I would be throwing up the entire time with my motion sickness, so I took it easy on the beach.
  
• Wyatt is a water kid.. he did not come out the entire time. Whether we were in the ocean, the pool, the boat.. he was in the water. He learned how to surf which was very exciting and he kicked and screamed when we left. EJ likes the water, but also is more like me.. likes to lounge outside, eat snacks.. play in the sand and get in when necessary to cool off. We saw dolphins.. they literally were a foot from the boat, they catch the waves behind the boat and ride along.. might be one of the most favorite things I saw. It was so amazing.. then we saw a fisherman catch a baby shark on the beach.. after I assured Wyatt there were not sharks at the beach! He let all the kids touch him, then released him back into the ocean (yes, right were we were all swimming.. the guy obviously did not have kids or their limbs to worry about!) So, that was big excitement. Almost as exciting as getting stung by a jelly fish! (Those things hurt like heck!) I am sure the story will get bigger and bigger by the time Wyatt tells his friends. All in all it was a great weekend. Great friends, great food, great weather and great memories.