Beach Trip...Take 2

After our failed attempt at a beach trip we booked our beloved beach house in Amelia Island.  I must say I just love Amelia, its my happy place!  Nana and Papa Chuck joined us for the first few days then left Brian and I alone with 3 kids!  Scary!

Julianna was actually pretty good.  I think she was too tired to get into too much trouble.  She and Jake shared a room again.  That was a little dicey.  When Jake wants to go to sleep he is ready...and she just wants to bother him.  She is very good at bothering him.  Once Nana and Papa left Jake moved into their room with Grace.  Julianna had her own room.

I think everyone had a great time on the beach!  It took a couple days for Julianna to get over being scared of the water but she enjoyed the sand and collecting sea shells.  Jake loved every minute!  He would run into the waves, build sand castles, and collect shells (he amassed quite a collection!).

We also took our annual trip to Mayport for seafood at Singleton's (a Diner's Drive-ins and Dives spot...which is definitely a DIVE).  The kids like to ride the ferry boat across the bay.  Julianna was having a great time until the blew the fog horn...she didn't take her hands off her ears until we got back in the car to get off.  It makes me laugh to eat out with Julianna because she will eat anything.  Polar opposite of Jake.  Let's see on this trip she ate: fried mushrooms, shrimp, hush puppies, crabcakes, hamburger, cole slaw, pimento cheese, chicken salad...the list goes on.  Awesome that she is so adventurous...at least in her food tasting.

I haven't mentioned Grace yet.  Probably because she was fantastic!  I don't even remember her crying the entire time.  She went down to the beach a couple times to sit in the sand and put her toes in the water.  She played in the tent we set up for her.  She is just a doll.  The sweetest baby ever...not to mention the cutest!  Check out those rolls!

We decided to try driving at night to see if its easier with the kids sleeping.  Well we got loaded up a little quicker than we though (I know unbelievable right?).  So we left about 6:00 thinking we would get home about midnight.  It was a pleasant enough drive if you like constant chatter.  Julianna talked NON stop from 6:00 until 9:45.  At 9:45 it was finally blissfully silent and I told Brian we left about 3 hours too early.  Those last 2 hours were nice though!