S&T 4th Annual Beach Trip!

First, praise the Lord- the computer seems to be up and running again. I had to "Factory Image Restore" it ... AKA- restoring the hard drive to its original state... AKA- lose all data files (pictures too) Thankfully the computer was working just good enough to slowly and painstakingly copy pictures from the hard drive to a flash drive so I was able to get the ones I really wanted or the ones that were not already on the blog. The last time I backed up anything on my external hard drive was in December so my advice is this... stop reading and go back up your stuff then come back and finish reading this post :-)


Friday morning we tried to make it down to the beach before the rain set it.... Once we got on the sand, we had a nice panoramic view of a big ol' thunderstorm coming in... you'll see the ominous clouds in some of the pictures. Thankfully, Friday evening we were able to go back out and get our one beach run in. Saturday was the same crummy forecast so we decided to hit the aquarium in the morning (of course it wouldn't rain then). By Saturday afternoon/ evening it was POURING!!!

The evenings were great (once the kiddos were in bed) as we were able to really catch up with great friends while learning a new card game :)

Anyway, though it is over a week past- here are the pictures from our S&T Beach Trip. There are a bunch!

Hunter

Love this picture of him- so handsome

Ashton

Happy surfer boy! Love his crooked cheezin' smile

Shepherd
There are no words for this face!

Noah

This is the best one I got of Noah. He is a mover and a shaker.

I promise I did help him - he just could not get his feet. He got knocked over 4 times in a row (this is the 2nd hit)

Luke

This may be the best baby/ toddler. He was so good and happy.

even though exhausted, he is still just adorable.

Group Boy Shots

Noah was not happy about the group shot. (Liv, I noticed how you left this picture out of your blog... ha ha)

How may fake smiles can you get? Apparently, three.

Noah is over his fit and he and Ashton walked hand in hand to our cars to say good bye.
Again, beach racing. Funny story- Noah attempted to run with them. Matt says he runs like his mother which apparently is not a good thing. Noah quickly decided that this was one activity he was not going to participate in.

Looking at the sharks. Love how Ashton's arm is around Noah.

Family Shots

In all of our glory :) Again, notice how Ashton (and Hunters) arms are wrapped around eachother- love it!

Another group shot- I know it is dark but Noah is happy in this one because he is beside Hunter and Ashton.

:) Love these people! (notice the clouds in the background)

One more family shot- our aquarium picture. Look at how my boys are growing! It is amazing.

Matt, Liv, Noah, and Luke- thank you guys so much for a great long weekend. It was so much fun!