♥This road called life♥: Beach

We decided this year that we would leave for the beach around 4:30pm and travel at night and the girls would sleep since their bedtime is normally around 7:30pm....well lets just say that plan didn't quite work out for us ;)

We left at about 4:30 and stopped in Montgomery for dinner at Olive Garden (yes, we chose a sit down LONG dinner so the girls would be good and tired when we got back in the car...or so we thought). I changed them into their jammies in the bathroom before we left the restaurant and we hit the road again. Ava Grace fell asleep almost right away...for about 30 minutes...I kept hearing a funny noise and turned around and it was her blowing me kisses and waving!

She was ready to party!!!

And Allie Kate (my non-car sleeper...seriously she refuses to go to sleep in the car) of course never closed her eyes once. When we got to the beach at about 10:30-11pm both girls were WIRED! It was pretty funny! Even though they were both awake for the trip down they were both great!!!

Allie Kate was so excited to be around all the little girl cousins and ran around with them for the first few days we were there (until they had to leave and she was forced to play with boring ole mom and dad). She would wake up and try to sneak out of the door and I would barely catch her and ask her where she was going and she would say "to see my friends."

Out to dinner at the crab trap :) We can just walk from the house to dinner and it's so convenient!

And Allie Kate loves to push the stroller!

She was asleep before we could even sit down to eat!

We weren't crazy strict on nap times this year since they are both getting a little older and we figured they'd be fine to skip a few. Ava was SO tired by around 5pm most days that she just passed out and then we would be up until 10pm or so.

This poor girl got the wrath of her momma when she needed the first drink of my pina colada and literally spilled the entire thing...bless her. (No worries I made Heath buy me another $6 pina colada).

Olivia turned one year old while we were there!!

(So this picture was taken at her birthday party a few days before we left)

Happy birthday to my favorite niece in the whole world! Aunt Ash loves you and loves watching you grow into such a sweet girl with a goofy little personality!

The beach was so fun this year! Both girls loved it :)

This sweet girl is almost impossible to get a picture of these days she is always on the run!

Allie Kate is terrified of not being able to touch but this little crazy will fight you tooth and nail trying to break free...and even if she goes under the water she comes up smiling!

Loves her "Mommy" Yay! She finally calls me "mommy" now :)

This is where Allie Kate loved to be...right where the waves crashed and she would play for hours :)

Big mama :) 29 weeks

Me and the girls sat and played in the waves most of the time...and that means I truly love them because I despise sand!

We were at the beach on Father's day this year and so we just spent the day on the beach enjoying time with the best daddy :) I am so thankful my girls have such a good daddy...and I know one day they will be too! They absolutely LOVE and adore their daddy and he feels exactly the same about them ;)

tickled about something :)

Silly girl :)

Both girls slept pretty good at the beach. Ava refused to sleep in her pack and play again so we just put her in the bed with us and Allie Kate slept on a twin bed in our room.

I loved getting to snuggle up to this beauty at nap and bedtime :)

Trying on hats at the outlets :)

This year we had a family photo session...yes we were those dorks in all white (the ones I normally giggle at when I see them all out there trying to get 30 people to look at once).