Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Florida 2012

Last week we spent a week in Destin with my family.  The weather was beautiful and it was a lot of fun.  I miss the beach for sure.  It was about a 12.5 hour drive.  Payton did Amazing on the way there and back.  I was really impressed.

Day One:  Travel.  We left Saturday about 5am.  Drove 9 hours to New Orleans.  Spent the evening seeing New Orleans and then woke up and drove the last 4 hours to Destin!  

Our Journey

5 am.  Wide awake and smiling

I don't know how he sleeps like this

Sweet Cousins.  Payton and Rian

New Orleans

Eating Some Sea Food on the river walk

Precious family.  Can't wait till their wedding!

We ate everything!

Crazy Kids

She did soo good on the trip!!  


We finally arrived!!  

Day Two:  Sunday.  Unpacking, Shopping and about an hour on the beach.  We got to Destin at about 2, unpacked our stuff and then headed down to the beach to check it out.  We were about a 2 minute walk from the beach.  Our house was awesome!  Me, Jonny, and Payton got the master suite!  It was heavenly! 
The tides brought seaweed to the beach every evening but it was gone by morning


Payton HATED the sand and water the first day and a half.  But once we bought water shoes and she got use to walking on the sand- she was rolling in it


Our little house :)
Yeah we practically bought wal-mart.  5 shopping carts. 

Day 3.  Monday.  We spent the whole day on the beach.  It was glorious.  We had a tent and baby pool set up for Donovan and Pay Pay.  The weather was perfect!  The night we spent playing games and watching movies! 
The Sand and Water were amazing! 


How cute is she??

Me and the big bro



Day 4:  Tuesday.  My dad and two brothers spent the morning golfing.  So the rest of the crew went down to the boardwalk and walked around, shopped, and ate some good seafood.  Then we spent the rest of the day on beach.  Maddie and Zach arrived that night. 


Love them :)

Our Lunch View


Day 5:  Wednesday.  Another full day on the beach.  Soaking up the sun.  Payton was loving the water and sand today.  
Laying in the sun


My best frand... Love her dearly


Me and my baby girl

Day 6:  Thursday.  We rented a pontoon boat for the day.  We cruised around the bay and visited crab island.  The water was clear but the sand was brown so it wasn't so pretty to look at.  But we found tons of crabs and it was lots of fun!  That night we continued our family tradition of playing putt putt.  Of course, dad won!  Jonny left about 5 am Fridaay to make it in time for Brad's wedding.    
They HATED their life vests at first but after about 5 minutes they forgot all about them



She loves her pickles


Crabs!

Love my family

She Fell asleep like this.  Resting on her daddy.  It was so stinking cute


Day 7:  Friday.  It was our last full day and of course we spent it at the beach.  The boys golfed in the morning and joined us at the beach after.  That evening we spent on the boardwalk.  There was music, entertainment, food, shops, train rides for the kids, and lots of fun stuff. 
Riding the train.  She was beyond tired

The girls


Sweet


Saturday, we spent the morning/day shopping and then hit the road to head home.  We drove straight through and arrived in Arlington at about 2am.  Destin was a lot of fun and we had a great time!  It was fun to get the whole family together and do nothing but relax for the week.  Now, its back to reality!    




Yeah this melts my heart





Thanks mom and dad for a great time.  We are blessed!!!


I took about 300 pictures.  I will be posting more on facebook later so look out for them!  





  




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