I accomplished another goal on my list.  I took the kids with 4 other moms and 6 other kids to Pacific Beach, WA.  The Navy has a resort and we had a blast.  I have so much to tell everyone about!!  It was such a blast and a nice getaway.

Here are  few pictures to tease you with. If you are on Facebook, more photos will be coming on soon:

This was just minutes after we arrived.  Our houses weren’t ready (we had a 4 bedroom and a 5 bedroom), so we took the kids to the beach. The sand was so warm. It was really nice.  We dug the toys out, put their jackets on, and let them go!  Their faces were priceless.  They were so excited to see the waves and play in the sand.  Notice:  this is Sunday, the day we arrived.  The last day we went to the beach, Wed, we went to the same beach.  No dunes on Sunday, HUGE dunes on Wed due to high winds.

only in the Pac NW do you let your kids go in the cold ocean when it’s 60 degrees outside!  You’ll see more “Outstanding Mom Award” photos soon (feel the sarcasm?).

Lara with her sanddollar.

Ethan was very excited about the crab claw.

I think we were the only people on the beach that morning getting into the water.  I take that back…the moms got in part of the way…the kids were going in waist deep!

Ethan thought he was a dog while at Ocean Shores.

Lara sat with me most of Tuesday at Ocean Shores. It was very cold and windy that day, but the little puddle the kids played in was pretty warm.

We bought kites while in Ocean Shores on Tuesday and flew them that day back at our houses.  Ethan’s flew onto a roof (but a resort worker got it down for him later), and Lara’s survived.  All others were destroyed.  Ethan picked out Transformers and Lara picked out Sesame Street.

Lara’s kite scared her. I think b/c the winds were super fast that day and it really did tug on the kite pretty hard.

All of us on Wednesday.  Yes, we still like each other!

This was Wed p.m.  We had NOT planned on letting the kids get into the water. Just going to take them to build sandcastles and play in the dunes. Probably our warmest day, but windiest!  The kids all stripped down to their undies (no one brought swim suits) and played.  Lara was the only one NOT in the water, other than the baby of the group, who is 20 mos old.

All the kids in their undies going towards the water.  

Feeding the seagulls on the beach.  The kids loved this.  We took all of our leftover bread from the week and let the kids have fun.

Notice the dunes that formed in just a few days.

We had so much fun and are planning on going back in August.