Memorial Day at the Beach

Guess where we spent Memorial Day? of COURSE we did! We also evidently invited a ton of stinky seaweed to come too.

 I honestly have never seen it quite this bad. The seagulls were loving it and the kids amazingly didn't mind, so we just went with it. The kids had a great time playing in the disgusting seaweed-y water and making (and destroying) sand castles. Beckett got to eat a big handful of sand. Guess he was testing out his two new bottom teeth that Pops discovered had popped up apparently overnight!

munching on some sand with his new teeth

Emmy even got to "fish" with a new Barbie fishing pole GiGi bought her. She caught a bunch of turquoise plastic fish and seaweed, but she was really getting in to the casting! 

Sweet Becks

My curly girl

The cousins came down to play for the day on Sunday. I think Abby would've stayed all day long. She just sat in the water unphased by the ick. The big thing of the day was catching the tiny shrimp that were washing up in the seaweed. Over the course of an hour or so Abby had buckets and buckets of tiny shrimp. Emmy has really been into digging up the "little animals" this year at the beach, but shrimp didn't seem to have the same magic for her. The seagulls were pissed that they were taking their food ( I imagine the shrimp were pretty pissed too).

GiGi decided to try and bring a gallon of bluebell to the beach. Emmy took advantage of the melting

I am sad to say that Memorial Day and the entire month of May has come and gone without me getting a sno-cone. I'm going to have to take care of that pretty quickly here.