The posed photos

This was actually on the way down... at night... at a gas station... in the van. My 50mm 1.8 was attached to the camera, so what the heck... opened up the aperature wide open and upped the ISO to 640. Jonathan grabbed Bill's sunglasses and struck his best Terminator poses!



And we totally bribed the kids with ice cream to get these. My favorites are actually the ones of their backs (I may even order one on a canvas)

Bury me!

Totally Thomas' idea!!






Hey, Grace... no sand in the face!

COMPLETE!

New load of beach photos!

We seriously couldn't keep Billy out of the ocean.. he LOVED it!


Abigail quickly posing!


Gracie serious about her sand play


Thomas too!


Let's build a village


Everyone, including Nonnie working together


Samuel wasn't completely thrilled with the ocean's frigid temperature, but still jumped in!


Jonathan is another ocean lover


And Thomas being tempted by the water


Checking it out more closely


Whheeeeeeee!!


"Mom. Dad. Water cold!" (he said this about 500 zillion times)


And we had a quick fly-over by the Blue Angels! Neat surprise!

Beach Beauty

Oh how Gracie loves the ocean... just pure joy from jumping and splashing in it!





And once she caught me taking pictures, she felt obligated to pose for me. Only, I'm not sure how concerned I should be at her poses... oh my. All her own and I have no idea where she comes up with stuff like this... LOL




Loads more to come... just had to share these real quick!

Spring Break!

We are back from a wonderful and relaxing trip to Gulf Shores for Spring Break. We had a fabulous time and are a little sad to be back to reality!


We rented a house on the beach to stay at:


Our master bedroom... can't beat that view!!


The living room with not the most comfy of furniture, but really, who wants to be sitting inside with that for your back yard?!


Kitchen, breakfast bar area


but who really cares about the house when this is out your back door??


The water was FREEZING, but it didn't slow down the older kids from jumping right in!




Thomas LOVED playing in the sand




Kids in swim suits in the ocean... wimpy Dad bundled up... LOL


*way* more photos to come!!! (this was just our first day... haha!)

bloggin' again

just a new layout and pics from yesterday... (and it's the two littles again.. they are the ones home all day with me)


Nice tats, eh? Guess he's trying to earn some serious street cred


So completely busted!