Thursday, April 21, 2011

Big Punk at the Beach

If you know my big punk he is about the most social kid you will ever meet. seriously. he talks to everyone and is constantly narrating everything he does.
you know that he is a ladies' man. the beach was heaven for him.
He met Amanda from Georgia, 4 teachers from Kentucky, Rocco from who knows where, random people in elevators and a few teenage girls.
Here's the condensed story...
Cabana Boy (mine not our real one) and Punk 1 are walking to the beach and as they walk past a group of girls, they yell, "Hi Charlie!" to them.
Ben says, "Charlie, who are they????"
"Oh. Just my friends."
He comes and tells me about it laughing.
The next day my sister and I are debating/lamenting over a teenage girl that is walking the beach in front of us. Let's just say she had the most adorable teenage figure but an abundant upper chest. We were talking about whether they were God given or not and praying/hoping they were. As we are sitting and talking I finally came to the conclusion that I didn't think they were natural.
Charlie walks up behind us and says, "Hey, there are my friends!" and points to the girl.
My sister and I roll over with laughter and try to hide our tears. She finally says, "Nice Charlie. You know how to pick them at 5 years old."


it's a requirement to get buried in the sand. 




running pics are always fun. 



busy, busy busy!



Exhausted after a day in the sun. 



and purposely putting on a pouty face b/c his mom wants a good picture of him. :) 


cousins up next. You will have to head to a.tonagel photography blog for the formal looking pics. Not that there are that many since the kiddos could have cared less about smiling for a camera. Too much sand and water to play in. :) 

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Punk 2 at the beach

Every boys dream. Running free.



look at that cool wave.




He was very intense about his digging. Him being our "junk yard dog" he got in trouble quite a bit for rough housing on the beach but it was so good for him to be out in the fresh air with plenty of room to run.




When we tried to do some formal pictures. This is what Punk2 gave me. Not sure what exactly he is doing but he obviously thought this was cool. 



peace out yo. 

and you guessed it up next Punk1

Monday, April 18, 2011

Beach Baby

for you impatient folks. :)

Here are a few quick pics of Punk 3 enjoying the beach. Out of all three he surprised me the most. I knew the other two would love it but he LOVED it! He was scared of the ocean the first day but after that we had a hard time keeping him out of it. He was so busy carrying sand, buckets of water, eating snacks, taking naps on me under the cabana (ps. we had a REAL cabana boy! funny story at another time when i have time to write) and diving head first into the ocean.




pure joy.


don't look at gross me. focus on the cute baby. i really should have photoshoped this image. blah...


loving the king size bed that he came and crawled into every morning at 5:30am. little stinker.





early morning walk

snuggling with cousin lyla


still dry at this point.

not any more...


snacks taste better with sand in them

king of the sandpile

i'm in love with a short pudgy man.

running away from me and my camera



Punk2 up next...

Saturday, April 16, 2011

The Beach

Just to make you all a little jealous...
Here is where I was last week. :)
I didn't realize how desperately we needed a vacation. We had never taken a true "vacation" with the kids and it blew away all my expectations.
I am working through my 600+ photos. Most of which are just the boys and their cousins playing in the sand.
Here are some from one morning when Punk#3 and I watched the sunrise out on the beach. I am not a morning person at all but this was worth it.
Notice we are the only crazy ones out at that time of morning.







more beach pics to come...

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Happy 5th Birthday to Punk 1

So I have tried a couple of times to post this entry and for some reason blogger just won't let me do it. I have gobs of pics from Punk 1's party that I wanted to share and they just keep getting regected. These few that I got on here are kind of out of order and it won't let me rearrange them.
So...I am giving up and just posting this.

2 months late... here are some pics from our rockin pirate party!

 Can't tell from here but the cupcakes were little fish.

We had a treasure hunt with some dumb clues made up by me. Cabana Boy and Greg are laughing b/c they don't even understand my clues.

Papa Hughie reading the next clue.


Miss Darcy had the last one. It said something about a big booty. :)
They found it! Telescopes, Gold coins, eye patches, Big hoop earrings and pirate tatoos for all the kiddies.


hold onto your hats. here's a bunch of photos from our Pirate party!



I teared up a bit when i got out my cake pan and saw Grandma Anne's initials on the side. She would have been decked out as pirate for this party.
the serious pirate


We just arrived home from a FABULOUS family vacation. I am working my way through 654 pictures. :) I will blog about it later this week.
ta ta, a