We always spend July 4th at Sunset Beach with our best friends and family! This was our first road trip, beach visit and vacation since we had the twins. I was pretty nervous considering last time they spent the night out they didn't do well at all. I actually put up the pack n plays in their nursery and made the twins take a nap a day in them so they would get used to sleeping somewhere different. Besides Graham crying in the car for the first half of the ride down they did amazing! Them sleeping and happy makes us happy and everyone has a lot more fun!
Also want to warn you their are LOTS of pics in this post:) We immediately took the twins to the beach!
We had amazing weather the entire time!
The first night we played Minute to Win it! Rebecca organized and purchased everything for the game and it was a blast!!!
Rebecca even had a trophy for the winning team!
The winners!
All the kids in their sweet matching crab outfits.
Adam-17 months, Ellie-4 months, Ryan-3 and Graham-4 months.
Tomato pies for dinner....yum!
Graham and Ellie loved all the attention...
The next day was July 4th!
All of us in our 4th pjs!
First dip in the ocean!
Little Ryan loved the water this year!
The triplets
Me and G catching some rays...
Stef, Becca and Lillian
Family pic
Catch him if you can....
Snack time...
After a day at the beach we went home to get ready for the festivities!
The hats and glasses were a big hit!
Our family on the 4th
The guys....
Andy with the twins...he was so sweet and helpful all weekend. The kids LOVE their uncle Andy.
Adam and Ryan
We made Moscow Mules, grilled out and had our annual corn hole tournament on the 4th.
Becca and I being silly while the family next door took professional family pics....hope we never get too old to act like this!
The triplets reuinited!
Let the cornhole tourney begin!
We had an odd number of players so I was selected to play on two teams. I got both Drs as my partners. Both my teams made it to the finals which meant I had to play myself. Team Londry ended up winning, but I had a great set of partners.
Me and partner #1- Pop
Partner #2...my hubby.
The next day we woke up early and watched some cartoons before hitting the beach for the day!
We even got to play with baby James for a little while!
Andy barried little Ryan and then gave him lady parts! he thought it was really funny!
Love this guy!
Andy and Adam
It gets real around our house at lunch time. We crush cool ranch Doritos, chicken salad and lunch meat! We split up dinners so that each family/house/couple has a turn cooking for the whole bunch. We always have George make spaghetti and meatballs, our house does the 4th cookout and usually either tomato pies or mexican night and the last night Uncle John makes a seafood gumbo! We also play lots of games. The last night we played our all time favorite....charades!
Little Ryan and Katie
Katie and Graham hanging on the porch waiting on dinner.
The entire gang!
Some of my favorite moments were seeing the babies sleeping in their tent with their bottoms up in the air, eating chocolate peanut butter ice cream, kids in matching pjs and late nights drinking wine and watching the baby monitor.
Last morning before we packed up and left Adam gave Ellie a kiss....non-provoked I swear!
What a fun week! Can't wait until next year when we have two little ones running around and eating sand!
I love all of the pictures! So much fun! I'm sad it's over :(
ReplyDeleteLooks like it was a wonderful trip!! I love all of the Fourth of July accessories... especially those sunglasses. Too cute!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful post! Loved all the pictures. Looks like you all had so much fun. I would have gotten post-4th depression from that beach too. What was that game you all played on the first night? Looks hysterical. We could use some new games to play next year.
ReplyDeleteThanks Melissa! The game was based on the tv game show Minute to Win it! If you google that there are TONS of different little games and we just picked a few and played against each other on teams....it was a lot of fun!!!
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