Ryan, Kaitlyn, and Colin Madden: The Beach

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

The Beach

Our first beach trip with the B's and my parents. Wow...we had a blast. Ryan KEEPS asking where are Bo, Betsy, and Ben??? He just doesn't seem to understand that we won't see them everyday. He loves his cousins...especially Bo. Our little one follows Bo everywhere!!

We got down to the beach ahead of everyone else - on Wednesday. (just in time for that wonderful little hurricane to pass by) We got lucky though, all the hurricane brought was a nice cool wind. We made it down to the beach Wednesday evening with both children to walk around and show Ryan what it was all about. The rest of the week was spent with someone constantly taking turns on keeping Kaitlyn inside. It was so much fun to spend uninterrupted time with ALL of the B's. That is something we have never done and I really hope we get to do it again one day very soon. The kids were awesome together. I hardly ever had to wonder what Ryan was up to. He was with "the big kids" somewhere playing and we just didn't have to worry about them. That was really cool. Very different than normal where one of us usually has to be watching out or helping entertain. These kids can all play forever and entertain themselves....ahhh, Bliss!!!

I actually got some time away - went to Carter's outlet with my Mom and bought out the store...hahaha and went shopping a little with Beth. Very fun and nice to have a little break from my little ones. :)

All in all, I just can't say enough about how much fun we had. Ryan loved the beach and I can't wait to take BOTH of our children next year. Ryan had NO FEAR and was constantly trying to go deeper in the water. Oh, something that hasn't ever happened to me before.... The police/lifeguard patrol came zooming up the beach one late morning. All of us were out there except Mike because he was at the house waiting for Kaitlyn to wake up. Anyway, we all wondered what the urgency was and we saw groups of people rushing out of the water in waves. Soon the lifeguard made his way to us and said that some sharks had been spotted. We looked out in the ocean and could see a school of fish swimming and circling their way up the coastline. After watching a few minutes the school of fish were flying out of the water. Then it looked like the circled up and WHOA - out jump 4 SHARKS at once. It was insane!! These were small sharks...only a few feet, but they were RIGHT IN FRONT OF US...and I mean right in front of us. We would have been eaten. The patrol said that they were bull sharks. Yea, great...a very aggressive shark in the water right at my hips...OMG! He also said that a 7 foot shark had been feeding on that school of fish down the coast a little bit. We didn't see that one, but I hope it had already had it's fill.

We did go back in the water, but not very deep. :)

My aunt and cousins came over one night and kept our brood of 5....God bless them. That was a huge treat for the 6 of us to go out. We haven't done that since before Bo was born. So fun!! I think our little munchkins wore everyone out that night!

Unfortunately, we had to leave on Sunday late afternoon to get ready to make the 6 hour drive back on Labor Day...it was so awesome being home for so long and getting to do so much, but I guess now we are ready to head back to reality...back to our house...