Our vacation this year was to Orange Beach in Alabama, and after the summer Mark had with summer ball and tournament ball, he really deserved some down time with the family. I took a lot of pictures, so I'm not going to caption every one. We stayed at Phoenix VII, which was a new Phoenix for us, but we loved our condo and the weather was great. We had little to no rain, and the water was clear with no seaweed or jelly fish. It was a little rough, but nothing you couldn't swim in.
Beginning of the trip selfie:
Emma's new found skill of sticking grapes in her nose - and I won't tell you how she eats it when she's done (so proud)!
Love this picture of the girls:
Emma and Mark hanging out in the water one morning - Emma could stay in there all day:
...and this is what Katie did most of the trip!
If we get to the beach for a whole week, like we did this summer, we try and get some Adventure Island Golf in:
Lunch at the Hangout after golf:
Burying Katie in the sand for her picture with Dr. Carlton's summer contest:
Aunt Denise decided to come with us this trip, and we had a great time with her. I think she had a great time too.
Our new adventure this trip was searching for sand crabs at night. Emma absolutely loved it. She was verging on the point of obsession on finding them. Its hard to get good pics at night, but here are a few:
Emma also liked looking at the little shells (bivalves) that bury in the sand as they come in with the surf. We had a good time one afternoon playing with them in the water:
Mark took this picture of Emma and I - I love it:
The last two "soldiers" (as Mark calls them) of the trip. We thoroughly enjoyed them!
Before we headed to eat out, Mark also got this cute pic of me and Katie Bug:
This picture also came out cute - Emma was a little sunburned and tired at this point (poor baby):
Bye-bye beach... until next year
