We spent a week at our favorite local beach – Sandbridge.  We rented a condo and had a few days of overcast and rain.  Brooke and Alex got to try boogie boarding for the first time and they had a great time with it!  Oma and Opa joined us at the beach and brought the sunshine with them.  We had beautiful sunny days for the rest of the trip even though it rained a few nights. We had a lot of fun building numerous sand castles, making mermaids and octopuses out of the children, lots of swimming in the ocean, relaxing on the beach, and more boogie boarding.  We also had a first for Brooke when she lost her first tooth!  It had been wiggly for about a month and decided to come out at the beach.  The kiddos had a lot of fun at the condo too, playing with Oma and Opa and the treasure hunt game Oma made for them.  On the last night we climbed the lifeguard towers before heading home the next day.

We stayed in Williamsburg thanks to Ammy and Papa getting us two condos for a week!  The grounds had mini golf so we started by playing a round, Alex even played along for a bit.  The next day we took everyone to Busch Gardens to have fun and Alex rode on his first roller coaster!  Everyone had a great time riding the rides!  We walked Colonial Williamsburg and one very happy boy got to see some sheep and Brooke was excited to get ‘locked up’.  Ammy and Papa watched the kiddos so we could have a date night at one of our favorite restaurants, The Fat Canary, and we walked Colonial Williamsburg at dusk with a full moon.  We enjoyed some family snuggle time and the kiddos enjoyed some topless running time before spending the day in Yorktown. It was fun to be near the river and seeing the different replicas.  On a rainy day the kiddos enjoying playing with one of Brooke’s birthday presents from Ammy and Papa.  During a break in the storm we took them on a walk to see the turtles at the pond and ended up playing a short game of horseshoes.  Everyone enjoyed playdoh after dinner that night.  It was a fun week in Williamsburg!