HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!

Oh, how happy I am that we are down at the beach! It is the last weekend in May and it is the first time we have been to our beach house. I was so ready to get there. 4 days on the boat, relaxing and enjoying the water. NO schedule, NO phones, NO computers, NO cable tv- just us! I love it- We ate at my Favorite restaurant Mosquito's and we rode bikes, chased down the ice cream truck, found sand dollars on sand dollar island and had picnics on the beach! Ahh the life..... The last day we decided to take the boat out and just ride around. We found this island that was pretty cool b/c it had a lot of drift wood on it so we thought we would anchor and take some pictures. The island was small enough for us to walk around it so we tried to. We were having a good time finding things and we got almost around the island and the sand ran out and it was grass the rest of the way which was still pretty far to our boat. Nathan starts walking in the grassy area and tells us to come on. We start to walk and I notice there is mud under our feet and we are slowly sinking with every step. Trusting my husband I keep going he kept saying "this is a wonderful adventure" and then it is starting to really scare me when I step and I am up above my ankles in the gooey, black, wet mud and my beach shoes are starting to get stuck in the mud- I start to freak out- first rule in parenting I broke- don't freak out or the kids will freak out. Well next Ava starts to cry then Ethan then Cullen- we are in the middle of this island, it is so hot, no one is on the island, we are up to our knees in this mud and now crabs are running around in the grassy mess. I was UPSET. Nathan still going thinking we can make it with 4 out of the 5 family members having a total breakdown - Nathan came back and got the kids and I walked behind- onward we go b/c we can't turn around now. We finally get to this water hole, it looks like we could easily cross it like a creek- OH NO- the mud in it is worse and there are Oyster shells all around. Thank goodness we all had beach shoes on. Well Nathan took Ava first- then his shoes came off in this sticky mud - so he walked over oyster shells to get the boys and then came back for me. Ava said "Daddy saved our lives" I have to say I was not happy at all but once we all got back to the boat and cleaned up - we got drinks and off we went Nathan and I looked at each other and laughed a good laugh.

here is the water we had to cross-Nathan's feet were cut up from all the oyster shells- look at Nathan's black legs from the mud- never again!