Vacation Day 8 - Friday

We woke up at Tom and Shirl's house. It didn't take long for the kids to find the playroom:) They had a blast playing with all the toys they had their. Isaac found Leah's roller skates and loved learning how to skate! 

 

Noa and Elijah had a chance to roller skate too. 

He did a great job!!

After haircuts we headed to Grandma's house. Grandma pulled all the toys out for the kids to play with:) 

They built a fort. 

Grandma also got them a little swimming pool!! 

After a little swim, they watched a movie in their matching outfits. I wanted to take a picture of all of them but I just got these on the couch;) Later I got some with my camera while they were playing outside. 

Grandma read a story to them at bedtime. 

Vacation Day 7 - Thursday

We started the morning with a photo shoot on the beach. I dressed the kids in their Fourth of July outfits that Grandmama gave them. I really wanted to get cute pictures of them on the beach. I ended up with some great shots!! Here are a few:) 

The photo shoot ended a little early when Isaac was doing handstands for the camera and ended up going over backwards right into the water. Splash. And he got soaked! I actually caught the fall on camera!

After the photo shoot, we went back to the house and changed.  Then we took them to get a surprise for letting me take their picture:)

Then we headed back to the beach! We had another fun day. We set up the cabana so that provided nice shade, but got hot! Not much air flow thru it. Elijah took a little nap in the cabana. He actually fell asleep laying on me with goggles on and eating chips:)

Jay and Tom hanging on the beach. 

After a good day at the beach we packed up, went back to the house and packed all our stuff to head to Pennsylvania. Got everything packed, cleaned up, ate Chinese, loaded up the kids and hit the road. Before long they were all asleep. 

We paid $8.75 in tolls from Atlantic City to PA. Crazy!

Driving thru Philly. 

We got to Coatesville and spent the night with Tom and Shirl. 

Now ready for one full week in PA!!!

  

Vacation Day 6 - Wednesday

Well today we spent the entire day on the beach! Lots of sunscreen and lots of sand! And lots of fun:-) here are some pictures from today.

Headed to the beach. 

Digging a big hole. 

Lots of sunscreen!!

Leah and Noa

Bubbles!

Then dinner and bed:-)

Another day at the beach tomorrow...

:-)

Vacation Day 5 - Tuesday

Today was our last day in Delaware. The boys woke up ready to go fishing. They went out to check their Fishing poles and didn't find much. Noa did have an eel but she was sleeping so they had to wait for her to wake up to see it. When she woke up they pulled up the crab cage and they caught two crabs. They got out before Jay could bring the cage all the way up. 

Me and Noa in our bandanas. 

We went to breakfast at a good local place. Pancakes, eggs, bacon, Philly cheese omelet... Yummy!!

Elijah's napkin hat. 

After breakfast, Kathy arranged for us to get a tour of the police department. The kids got to see a police car, get in, push buttons, turn on the siren, wear police jackets, get a tour of the police office and meet the chef. 

In the back of the police car. 

Touring the police department. 

Noa and Isaac in the questioning room;)

They locked Kathy up to the criminal bench;) They are looking sad because she's locked up;) ha!

After the police department we went home and got all packed. Then we went to a water park and rode the bumper boats and 

got soaked!! ;) This was before the bumper boats. 

After cooling down a little we changed and headed to the ferry.

We were early so we planned to get something to eat with Grandpa and Kathy  before getting on the ferry. But we ended up getting on an earlier ferry! We drove up to give them our ticket and they put us straight on the 2:45 ferry. As we were trying to figure out what was going on, grandpa and Kathy came over to say goodbye. And before long we were driving on the ferry!!

The kids all got a pretzel on the ferry. 

The kids did great on the ferry! They were tired and wanted to stay inside more than walk around the deck. 

Before long we were in New Jersey. 

We made it to our next stop, Brigantine, NJ to see Tom, Shirl and family. The kids enjoyed meeting Leah, Mikaila's daughter, she is the same age as Isaac. We all ate at an Italian restaurant for dinner. Then headed home for bed.