2+2=4: Beach Trip 2010

We took our annual trip to the beach back in June! We went to Surfside Beach (just a little south of Myrtle Beach, for you non-SC folks) with my parents and sister! And as usual we had so much fun! Our week ended way too quickly....we always wish we had enough money to make our vacation 2 weeks, but I don't see that happening anytime soon, so we make the best of our 7 days! We are pretty low key beach vacationers. We really do like the beach and that is where we spend the majority of our days. Alex would be out on the beach at 7AM if he could get the rest of us moving that fast! We take our big tent and "stake our claim" on the beach each day. And we spend most of our time under that tent playing in the sand, enjoying frozen lemonade (from the poor girl who pushes the lemonade cart up and down the beach every day) and watching Alex and Emily run back and forth to the ocean to get the necessary amount of water needed for their daily sand creation! Emily told us on this trip that the frozen lemonade was her favorite part of the beach and that when she got bigger she was going to have that job! And because she said the lemonade was her favorite part of the beach, Papa (my dad) made sure she had one every single day (and the rest of us too)!

Our other beach adventures this year included the annual family putt-putt challenge! And of course, I won first place again this year! It is an honor to beat my husband, sister, and 2 kids every year. And even if I don't always win, I still claim to be the putt-putt queen every year! HAHA : ) We ate lots of seafood! We cannot take a trip to the beach without consuming lots and lots of shrimp and fish! We spent a day at Broadway at the Beach and we surprised the kids by letting them each build a new creation...Emily got to go to Build a Bear for the first time and Alex went to a place called Ridemakerz. Ridemakerz is similar to Build a Bear, but he got to make a cool car instead where he chose the body style, the tires, the rims, and all the mega car parts that make his car very cool!!!!!

Below are a few pics from our trip and I will post a few more in the next post....(my Picasa account is only letting me post 4 pics at a time.)