Friends and Family VaCa - Destination Port A!

Yes, it has been a long time since we had this trip, but let's just say I have been kinda busy, haha!  Anyway, the millions of pictures that follow in this post are of the wonderful friends and family trip we took to Port Aransas, Texas at the beginning of August 2012.  The Brawley's suggested that we take a trip together and seeing that we both have small children, we decided to pick a beach with in driving distance.  We set out on the 9 hour drive there and we're so grateful that we decided to stay 5 days instead of 4!  Our kids did fairly well on the drive, but it did add two hours to our drive for potty breaks and meals.  

When we finally got there, we really loved the place.  The town was so cute and our resort was right off the beach, so we could walk right up to it.  The kids were so excited, and this was Calvin and Kennedy's first time at the beach.  The kids loved the sand, ocean and pool the best.  The boys loved the skim board and night crabbing, there are pictures of it below.  The girls enjoying a tiny bit of reading, relaxing and sun...oh and cupcakes, they had the best little place in town!  We had some great meals both at the house and in town, I have decided I do like seafood if others make it, big step for me.  Our kids really play well together and that makes this that much better.  I hope that we get to do this again this year, maybe even try another beach.  Well enough talking, on to see the action! Check out all the pictures below. 

Sand Castles

First time at the beach

Our Resort is in the back

First surf

Chill Babies!

Best Buds!

 Snack Time

The Brawley Family

So Pretty!

Strike A Pose

Boys will be boys...no smiling from them! 

I have a picture of Lincoln like this, only it is a Connecticut beach

Love Her!

The skim board in action

Getting out for some girl time and getting funky new glasses!

Naps where good while we were there, everyone was tired!

Palin's around

Crabbing!

It was an awesome trip, hope to do it again soon!

Swimming with Pals!

I was totally behind as usual, so I just posted 7 blog posts!

We have had a few great swim dates this month!  First we headed out to Ridglea Country Club with the Brawley Family for some pool time.  They have a very nice large pool and a great beach entry kids pool. Kenny and Cal and all the kids had a great time.

Love her!

We also headed out to the Trophy Club Splash Pad and Pool with Jennifer and Caiden. This place is awesome, we went to a birthday party here last year. It is super kid friendly and really fun. 

Caiden trying to find his cheese, where did it go? 

Lincoln just relaxing his cares away, oh to be a kid again!

This girl loves the water!

This slide is fun to kids and adults both, I have to say that Jen and I went down a few times :)

But the best part of swimming has to be how well they nap afterwards!!!

Go Rangers!!!

For father's day, we got tickets to see the Rangers with our dads.  By the end of July, the game was finally here.  I had seen on Pinterest how to turn a t-shirt into a cute tank top, so off to Academy I went to get my t-shirt.  I found a cute vintage t-shirt and started clipping away.  It was pretty easy and you can find the tutorial here. It turned out pretty cute!

While it was great to have our dads to hang out with, Craig and I also found our selves kidless, so it was pretty relaxing for us as well!  Yes, that is a hot dog and garlic fries on my lap, why do you think I come to the game? 

My dad and I, we had a great time and he enjoyed seeing the game. 

Our view was pretty good and we were under cover, so that was good when it was super sunny! 

Actually, this is the real reason I come to baseball games, funnel cake!