We’re having a great time here.

Yesterday we went to the beach, ate snacks, and enjoyed the waves. You should have seen the minivan - it was packed up and with the children, food, adults, and blow up toys you could barely see out the back.

After we overdid it at the beach we came home and cleaned up. Then we went for a late lunch. The kids did great other than being tired. When we got home they took a short nap.

Then we decided to venture out for dinner. We went into town which is just a few short miles. The little town here is so cool - but the tourists have obviously taken over. The little pizza shop that we had planned to go to had a wait of over an hour long.

So we decided to skip to the main drag on one of the routes and go to Ruby Tuesdays. It was good initially, however, we then got our food and it was cold, not well prepared, and didn’t have much flavor.

We were going to go out for icevcream but Emmy had different plans. She was on the boob for most of the afternoon and wouldn’t let off for a minute. When she was taken off she wailed. Which meant that all car rides were pretty miserable and I just couldn’t take her screaming to the top of her lungs as we looked for a parking spot!

Today was much more relaxed and better planned. We decided to go to the pool early. We got a great spot and the kids, Margot, and I went swimming. The water was perfect and again we had some great snacks!

Now we’re just waiting for everyone to wake up and I think we might hit the Popeye’s for dinner. It’s easy, cheap, and we figure there aren’t going to be a lot of out-of-towners hitting the fried chicken!

We’ve taken tons of pictures during the past few weeks and when we get home we’ll post all of June and some recent teaser photos.

Graem is giant and growing like a weed this summer. I look at her and can’t believe that she’s such a big kid. She’s filled out a bit and seems to be a little meatier.

Emmy is doing the same! Her cheeks have fattened right up and she’s LONG! Of course, she has my build. Long torso and short legs. She also has my other admirable features - big nose, and elephant ears.

Sorry, Emmy!