Destin: Day 1

   Last week, the girls and I had a wonderful vacation in Destin, Florida with our friends, the Speights family and the Leonard family.  We left on Saturday morning at 4:00 a.m.  Staci, Justin, Hudson, and Addie Leonard rode with us, and the kids did great on the ride down to Destin.  We caravand with the Speights clan (Chris, Shannon, Britney, and Blake).  After traffic at the tunnel in Mobile and then again on the toll bridge entering Destin, we arrived at our townhouse at about 4:00 p.m.  We took the kids down to the beach, and I captured their first dip in the water...

Beautiful!!!!  This view never gets old!

They love it!

All smiles!

Precious friends

Lizzie getting her fingers and toes in the sand.

Lizzie and Blake wave jumping.

Maggie is not afraid, either.

First taste of salt water...yuck!

Toes in the sand...this is how

we will roll for the next 7 days...

    So, after they played for a while, we went back up to the house and ordered pizza for dinner.  Next came the dreaded trip to Wal-Mart to get groceries for the week... Shannon, Britney, Staci, and myself braved the crowd (which was extremely reminiscent to the Black Friday shopping crowd).  Thankfully, the kiddos and guys stayed back at the house.  We survived...barely...I mean, someone may or may not have run over a stranger's toes with a shopping cart.  Then, driving back to the beach house, that same someone may or may not have turned down a one way street headed the wrong direction, shouted, "What do I do?", and then cut across the median to turn around and get headed in the right direction.  Just making memories...

Lizzie's Words to Remember

Lizzie:  "Mom, I wish our house was in Florida."

Me: "Why, do you like it here?"

Lizzie, "I LOVE the beach!"

I have to agree...I love it, too!