Can't stop me.....

Even with a broken foot I managed to still take this pic of the great grands on the beach....my mom and I made the shirts for them before we left, unfortunately David, Leslie, and Charlie couldn't make it to the beach, so Charlie is missing, but there's always next year!

I may or may not have cut and pasted a few faces.....but for 8 kids 4 and under, it wasn't bad. I'll have to share the out takes, otherwise known as why my older 2 children can't keep their hands down! I also with the help of my Dad managed to take Alicia and Reid's engagment pics. I'm photographing their wedding in December and and I am so excited! They are a beautiful couple! They got engaged on the beach earlier this summer, so it was perfect!

I was hungry.....

So after watching the 3 hour bachelorette finale Jeremy and I decided to go to the "food house" to get a snack.....which is why the view of the beach now looks like this...




I missed the last step, didn't do a good job of breaking my fall and now I've got this beauty of a splint, crutches, and an appointment with an ortho surgeon on Monday. Let's say July has been a bad month for me. The good news is I'm still alive, still at the beach, and I will get better eventually. Lesson learned: Don't eat after 8 like they say!

Travel Bags....

I know, I'm that blogger that hasn't blogged in forever. But I've had a lot going on, and I'm starting to get my bearings again! We are headed out tomorrow on the family trek to Destin, FL, and since the kids will probably choose to ride with my parents I didn't want them to have to listen to 100 rounds of Spring is Here on their current favorite video I put together some other options. We'll find out tomorrow how they go over! Here is is in photos!

 Their travel bags, Cooper's is green cause it's is favorite color, Maddie's is pink cause she's a girl...

So in this magic bags are puzzles with magnets, dry erase markers, twist up crayons, stickers, a lap dry erase board, and a few coloring books, and the binder!

 The binder contains different games, mazes, hidden pictures, and letter tracing, with a map of where we are going.

 The idea for the puzzles is I've glued magnets to the back and they'll stick to this pizza tray so they should stay together!

They can earn "car bucks" for good behavior and trade them in for one of these surprises on the way. Guess I'll have to stock up on the way back!

Just about all my printables came from this site, and the whole thing probably cost me about $25, besides the printing and the sheet protectors my mom already had. Oh they can use the dry erase markers on the sheet protectors for endless amounts of fun! Hopefully this will keep them well occupied until we get to Florida!