Beach Trip!

Ryan has made an executive decision that we are going to take a family beach trip once a year...we'll see how long that lasts, but here are some highlights from the second Earp family beach trip!

Highlights:
1. This was like a mini family reunion on Ryan's side because 3 of the 4 siblings were here and all of the grandkids were present. The kids had a blast with all of their cousins!
2. Ryan and Uncle Matt were the experts on sand castle building and even let the kids help them build their legendary sand castle/fort!
3. Some kid at the beach saw all the little kids playing on it after it was built and we overheard him say to his family, "Hey did you see what those little kids made!"
4. Apparently, we have taken our kids to stay in quite a few hotels recently because they are sure getting to be good at all sleeping in the same room and we all get a good night sleep!
5. We pretty much never left the beach the four days we were there - we got some pretty sweet tans!
6. Grandma and Grandpa Earp brought back Hawaii outfits for all the grandkids from their recent trip and we got some cute pictures!
7. During one of our photo shoots with Grandma and Grandpa we lost Sawyer's only plug as it got swept away by a wave. Devon was unusually and tearfully sad about it, but after most of us thought it was long gone Uncle Matt saved the day!
8. Marissa and Taylor were able to rekindle their "best buddy" friendship" and once again had a blast together. One day at the beach we saw just the two of them laying by each other on the sand having their own conversation for quite a while. We found out later that Taylor was telling stories and Marissa was his avid listener and questioner!
9. Sawyer was just starting to get around so he had a great time helping himself to everything. That kid was like a food magnet and all of a sudden we looked down and he was gnawing away on his first peanut butter sandwich! Oops!




Here's the totally wicked sand castle/fort!







Here's Marissa and Taylor just after they were telling each other stories!



Grandma and Grandpa Earp and all their grandkids decked out in Hawaii apparel!



The kids in their Hawaii outfits.



Here you can see Devon looking down at Sawyer's plug at his feet just moments before it was swept away by a wave. I saw it there and almost ran to get it, but stopped myself thinking, "It's not going anywhere...I don't want to ruin the pictures," when seconds later it was gone from my sight.



Devon woke up with some awesome bedhead one morning!