vacation photos: part beach
We took so many photos of our trip in Michigan this year, and since LJ is my scrapbook, there will be many of them (truly crappy photos not shown, and others tastefully cropped) posted. There are SO many, and it's so much work for me to get it in here, that I'm doing this in several posts over several days time, organized by activities.
First we have the beach. We actually didn't go to the beach as much as we probably should have. Babies require so much stuff at the beach. Whereas the rest of us would have been fine with getting on our own sunscreen, help with the back of course, (or unhealthily baking), and carrying what implements for beach fun we needed ourself...the baby needed all of her sunscreen needs taken care of by us (and she was none too cooperative), and mountains of crap carried like snack, extra diapers etc.
These photos are actually two days of beach worth. And I no longer know or care which day was which. They were much the same. It was absolutely beautiful both days, and the water was actually kind of warm.
Here's all of the family doing typical beachy things, except of course I'm behind the camera.
Here are more photos than necessary of me and Alyssa together playing near the water:
Daddy and Alyssa playing in the sand.
My mom and dad came with us the first day. Mom read a magazine, and I never got a picture of her for some reason. Dad played with the kids in the sand.
I played with Alyssa in the sand.
I played with all the kids in the sand.
Alyssa watched us with interest as we tried to bury each other, and her, in the sand. So finally she started lying down in the sand and trying to bury herself.
Rachel playing in the sand. For history's sake, I will record here that the poor girl really REALLY wanted to take part in the sand sculpture contest that happens to be, almost every year, when we come to Michigan, in nearby Pentwater. Once again, it just seemed like so much trouble to fight the extreme crowds on the day in question, get her registered beforehand, and chaperone for several hours. So we didn't get her involved and she was bummed. But she practiced her art briefly on the beach one day and made a really cool figure of a person in the sand, which I unfortunately didn't get a picture of.
On the first day at the beach we brought this humongous blow up boat. (It doesn't look so humongous here, but it can fit both the older girls pretty easily). At one point in the channel part of the beach we were at, I pulled Alyssa around. She had less fun with that than I expected :(
First we have the beach. We actually didn't go to the beach as much as we probably should have. Babies require so much stuff at the beach. Whereas the rest of us would have been fine with getting on our own sunscreen, help with the back of course, (or unhealthily baking), and carrying what implements for beach fun we needed ourself...the baby needed all of her sunscreen needs taken care of by us (and she was none too cooperative), and mountains of crap carried like snack, extra diapers etc.
These photos are actually two days of beach worth. And I no longer know or care which day was which. They were much the same. It was absolutely beautiful both days, and the water was actually kind of warm.
Here's all of the family doing typical beachy things, except of course I'm behind the camera.
Here are more photos than necessary of me and Alyssa together playing near the water:
Daddy and Alyssa playing in the sand.
My mom and dad came with us the first day. Mom read a magazine, and I never got a picture of her for some reason. Dad played with the kids in the sand.
I played with Alyssa in the sand.
I played with all the kids in the sand.
Alyssa watched us with interest as we tried to bury each other, and her, in the sand. So finally she started lying down in the sand and trying to bury herself.
Rachel playing in the sand. For history's sake, I will record here that the poor girl really REALLY wanted to take part in the sand sculpture contest that happens to be, almost every year, when we come to Michigan, in nearby Pentwater. Once again, it just seemed like so much trouble to fight the extreme crowds on the day in question, get her registered beforehand, and chaperone for several hours. So we didn't get her involved and she was bummed. But she practiced her art briefly on the beach one day and made a really cool figure of a person in the sand, which I unfortunately didn't get a picture of.
On the first day at the beach we brought this humongous blow up boat. (It doesn't look so humongous here, but it can fit both the older girls pretty easily). At one point in the channel part of the beach we were at, I pulled Alyssa around. She had less fun with that than I expected :(