Florida!!

We had been planning on going to Florida with our friends, the Madsens later in the summer...they are much more spontaneous than us and decided about the third week of May that we should go the next week.  Steve and I, the planners that we are, started getting hives and hyperventilating a little bit about the whole thing:)  We decided to go for it and found a beach house and off we went.  It was an amazing vacation and I was so sad to come home.  The weather was PERFECT, the company was fabulous and  I just love the beach.  The kids had such a fun time together and we are grateful to have such great friends to go with. 

         

Body boards were the best investment we could have made.  The kids played on them for hours.  Davis was in the water from the time we walked on the beach until we pulled him out to leave.  It was hard to even get him out to eat or reapply sunscreen!  Lets just say he had a good time. 

Ivy was amazing!  She sat in her stroller under the canopy, took naps and was just a happy girl! 

Emery and Kennedi are the best of friends.  They are seriously so cute together and love each other so much.  They kept each other very entertained and either played in the sand or ate snacks pretty much the entire trip!  

Some pretty impressive digging with a little help from Steve.  Kaleb is 7 and Davis is sure that he is as old as him.  He likes to do everything that Kaleb does (that is sometimes good and sometimes not so good:)

We went to a place in Destin where they have a bunch of alligators.  It was interesting...the kids thought it was pretty cool and loved learning about alligators. 

This is the size of the biggest alligator on record.  Yikes. 

Davis trying to feed the alligators.  I am surprised these gators aren't super overweight because people are trying to feed them all day long.  They didn't seem too interested, but Davis was finally successful in getting an alligator to eat his food. 

Ivy hanging out by the pool. 

Kennedi, Emery and Ellie with matching jammies.  These girls looked so cute all matching (I especially loved the scrunchies that came with these night gowns!)  and the boys were all jealous that they didn't get something matching! 

Best friends.  Are they not the cutest?! 

Right before we got in the car to come home we took the kids to play at this really cute park in the area where we stayed.  We had to run off some steam before the long drive...and do a little photo shoot! 

If you ask me, Florida never disappoints!  We had such an amazing time and as always, I can't wait to go back!