Santa Rosa Beach, Florida

AAHHHHH! Vacation!

We had such a wonderful time. We left st. louis on Friday morning, the 20th and stopped in Greenville, Alabama to stay the night in a hotel (we couldn't have the beach house until saturday afternoon-but didn't want to waste and entire saturday driving). we woke up early saturday morning and headed to the beach, we got in around noon and the cleaning ladies had just arrived so we went to lunch at this great restaurant recommended to us by friends called Stinky's Fish Camp. fabulous food and the best desserts around!-we were stuffed from lunch but ordered desserts to go-which later became our dinner. chris had the key lime pie, my mom had the organic strawberry pie, and i had the bread pudding (covered in caramel sauce)

this vacation was so relaxing, we planned nothing, just woke up in the morning and went with the flow....unlike when we went to disney 2 years ago and set our alarms so we could be the first in the parks! this was wonderful, we grocery-shopped on saturday evening and discovered all kinds of fun shops and stores along the way to visit later in the week. every morning i got up and went for a run on the beach and came back to find everyone else starting to stir....chris always made breakfast and after breakfast we headed out to the pool so the kids could swim and we could relax and read. we only had rain 1 morning, so we headed to the outlet mall in destin for a morning of shopping. Bradley checking out the pool below-we had our own pool which was wonderful!

Lainie in one of her many swimsuits!

I decided to give Tristan a haircut when we arrived, so before swimming I buzzed his hair!

Every evening after dinner we rode our bikes up to our beach access and went for a walk on the beach and looked for shells-there aren't many in that area. All week long the purple flags were flying-we soon came to find out that it meant there were a lot of jellyfish in the area-so many that chris scooped one right out of the ocean with a net to show the kids what to look for so they wouldn't get stung.

After i cut tristan's hair, lainie decided that she wanted her hair cut also, so, after our morning of building sandcastles, and swimming at the beach, my mom, lainie, and i rode our bikes in to the little town square of shops and found a fabulous salon called Kindall's and Kindall gave Lainie a fabulous hair cut. she did a really great job and lainie and i were very pleased!

Pre-haircut!.....Before....

........After........
SOOOOOO Cute!


To end out the week we fished from the beach and Bradley caught a few crabs, and took the usual pictures on the beach (my other camera has all of the pics, but i took black and white with this camera) and i decided since everyone usually wears white, i wanted to change it up and we wore navy blue. i think they turned out well!