Well, Cora took her first vacation on Monday. Our destination was Manzanita, and it was just Mama and the kids for the day meeting up with Grammy, GG Faye, Aunties Kathy and Suellen and Auntie Lisa and cousins Brayden and Hannah. It's a tradition that we go each year and I wasn't going to go since Cora is so new... but then I couldn't bear to miss out.
Not knowing if I was being a brave new mom of two, or just stupid, we headed down the road and said multiple prayers for a safe, fast and GOOD trip!
We did make great time and surprised everyone at the beach that we had actually showed up!
I wasn't certain I was going to make the trek until that morning, so I hadn't shared that we were even considering it.
We arrived early-ish in the morning so we spent some time at the house playing in the morning...
...and enjoying the beautiful view and weather.
Once it warmed up and the rest of the troops arrived, we were off to the beach!
The three amigos
Les soeurs
(Best sister who ran to the rescue when Jack face planted in the ocean)
He was having SO much fun running around and laughing and playing!
Doing my best to keep the sand from pelting Cora's face and sun from scorching her skin
After the face plant in the ocean and getting all wet, combined with the wind blowing sand everywhere we had to call it quits after only a short time on the beach.
Very sad.
We did our best to extend the stay with a towel to block the assault of sand...
...but alas, we lost the battle and chose to trek back to the house with our fussy bunch.
Playing in the water table was much more fun, and we still had a pretty good view
4 generations!
Cora, Christine, Missy, Faye
I guess we can throw Jack in there with the girls too!
This was Jack at the end of the day.
Have fun much buddy?
