More of the Sunshine State

You just haven’t lived until you’ve slept 3 to an air mattress. 

Christian and Jeanne came down Friday night and I made 2 giant shepherds pies, one for the crew and one for the freezer. We played games and then went to the pool and had so much fun! We played colors and Marco Polo and Christian told us all about his training. Big kids are so fun! Christian dogpiled the girls because that’s what brothers do. 

I made bacon and eggs and toast and cut up some strawberries and then we packed lunches and beach gear for our fun day. 

Adi got to drive bubbas big truck and I thoroughly enjoyed sitting in the back and letting Christian coach her. 

We hit the exchange because beach exchanges usually have good stuff, but not this one. 
Then we headed down to the Pensacola Lighthouse. 😍 


Jeanne and Christian were the only brave climbers. It was like 180 steps!

Pretty high!

It’s also haunted, so that’s fun. 

Lu got pics of us from down below. 

See Christian hugging the wall? Neither of us like heights. 

We had decided to go to the navy beach there in Pensacola and I was a little sad because there’s these skinny barrier islands that I thought would make it so we didn’t have waves, but from the top of the lighthouse we could see there were no waves even past the barrier islands. 

#happylady

Unfortunately the beach was chock full of jellyfish. 

So we hung out under the canopy a lot. 

And we waded. 

Look at that monster! And the giant jellyfish. 🤣🤣🤣

The jellyfish were pretty sad, but a day at the beach is a day at the beach, amiright?

Gorg!

Love this cute boy!





And the sand! Like sugar!



Christian had bought inner tubes and Jeanne and Adi sat in them and held the boys and didn’t get stung at all, so then Damian and I went out too. 

I never did get stung, but there were so many fish and so many jellies and I got tired of trying to dodge them all. 

I love spending time with these 5!

They made me. 🤣

The only things that could have made this day better was Matt. 

Since it was so tough to swim, we headed just down the street to the base pool and slid and swimmer and had diving contests. 

Aaaand we got rid of all that sand. 

We had brought our shampoo and conditioner so we could all use the outdoor showers there and then didn’t have to try to get 10 people cycled through 1 shower. 

It stormed as we left but Adi drove like a pro. We had a delicious dinner at a Mexican fast food place, and then the boys took the boys home and the girls took the girls shopping. And we finally were ready for back to school!

We played games until 10 when I made myself get to bed. Since we had a 14 hour drive I had planned to wake up early, so I took Lexi and Damian’s room and all the kids had a big slumber par-tay!