After spending a week at the beach as a family we are finding that our children have changed a good 5 or so shades darker.  Because the amount of time we spent at the beach, we found that we gave a lot of time to ocean as well as the sand and got a bit creative.

My dad, brothers and Will spent plenty of time in the water and I even joined them for a little bit.  We were lucky and had perfect beach going weather the entire time.

I think my brothers enjoyed exchanging their normal mountain scenery for that of the beach.

And…maybe I felt a little bad about not getting my little brother a rash guard…oops!

My brother Casey seemed to very much enjoy burying my youngest brother.

My brother didn’t want to be a Mermaid so we created this tenticled and clawed creature instead.

Annie and my mom just enjoyed the sand and the shade.

Annie did have a few first while we were there.  She found a new love for seaweed, pulling it up and down the beach.  She is also now no longer afraid of the water.  She splashed and played the last day we were there.  A fearless 2 year old and large amounts of water are enough for an anurism in my book.