April takes amazing pictures- and we were blessed enough for her to bring her camera on one of our beach trips!! These pictures are so sweet they deserve their own post!
The Quads- even though they are almost 3 years apart in age, they are basically the same size so they could easily pass for quads. They were all SO excited to be at the beach!!

Addie showing off her prized possession- a dead sand crab that she sweetly named Candy Cane. She carried it everywhere and then made a habitat for it in an old red plastic cup...


Here is what happened when she lost the red plastic cup. The poor thing was heartbroken. I suggested she call to Candy Cane and she sobbed out "I can't call to her Mommy, she's DEAD!"- which made me just laugh and her cry even harder (with a chuckle stuck in there too as she knew it was just silly to be missing a dead crab)....


And now she's happy as she had just found a bigger and ALIVE sand crab! She's laughing because as it moved it tickled her hand!


Alden LOVED all the sand.... He's attempting to dig to China in this picture... He takes his work very seriously...


And here he is showing off the fish he caught- he caught it because it was dead (what's up with my kids finding and loving dead sea creatures??)


His 2nd passion at the beach was riding the itty-bitty waves on his boogy board- we had been the day before and the waves had been bigger, but not so our 2nd time. He just sat on his board and waited for the waves to carry him out....














