One thing that Shane and me want to try to do every year is take a family vacation. Well, this past weekend we took our first ever family vacation! Our amazing friends, the Johnson's, let us use their condo in Sarasota. We have been wanting to take the girls to the beach for the very first time so we were way excited about being able to go to Sarasota for the weekend (thank you guys SO much!). We drove down on Thursday evening. I knew that the first thing that had to happen was "baby-proofing" the condo. So, I went in first and moved everything that was breakable out of reach (you don't realize just how many things are breakable until you are having to move them all :) and we moved around all the furniture, etc to create blockades so the girls couldn't get to territories that they could destroy. After I finished the baby-proofing task, we let the girls in and started unloading our things. Not 1 minute after we let the girls in, we hear this awful CRASH from the kitchen area. I sprint in there to find this beautiful vase laying on the floor...destroyed. Nice. Gabbie was standing there looking at me like..."what??". The vase had been in a corner of the breakfast area and I had not seen it on my initial sweep of the place. Fabulous. Thankfully it wasn't a vase they had gotten on their honeymoon or something like that. Thankfully :)
Blockade to the kitchen
Blockade to the office
Towels covering every square inch of the floors and chairs. Our children are MESSY eaters.
Chairs blocking the entertainment center drawers. Those are VERY tempting to open and demolish everything in them :)
Family pic at the beach!
The girls LOVED the beach!!
Gabbie especially loved the sand...
"MOM, leave me alone already....enough pictures!"
Gabbie decided to relocate the beach chair. Then she decided she needed more sunscreen...
My little girls are growing up so fast!!
Watermelon....yummmm!!
We spent one rainy afternoon at Chick-fil-A. The girls love drinking out of "big girl" cups :)
Jocelyn sharing her snack with me
When we were at the condo, we were in the pool. The girls LOVE the pool. They especially love jumping off the side for daddy to catch them...over and over and over again :)
They also shot some hoops on the side.
These floats are awesome. What is not awesome is that they will only stay in the 1.2 seconds.
One night in the bathtub, they discovered how to turn on the shower....they were absolutely amazed!We had a fabulous time on our first ever vacation! Thanks again to the Johnson family!
3 comments:
Looks like you guys had a great time. I can't believe how big the girls have gotten! The girls seem to have fun personalities just like you both!!!
It looks like you guys had so much fun! The girls are so cute in their swimsuits. They are getting so big :)
Looks like you guys had a great time! They are growing up so fast!
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