Joey's Beach Birthday

lSharks mouth gift shop

The USS Lexington--a retired air craft carrier docked along the beach. It was so fun to sit on the huge anchor, walk through the ship, see the airplanes, and push all the buttons in the hands on cockpit!

walking the plank

Those cute "Top Gun boys!"

All the ladders going from level to level

Two cute captains

Kimball steering the ship. He was convinced it was really a yo-yo

The huge ropes on the back of the ship

After dinner at Joe's Crab Shack we took the boys to an amazing park on the beach. They loved climbing in,over, on top of, and around everything.

Then we took our tired family back to the hotel. The boys wer so excited to sleep in a hotel. They couldn't stop jumping from bed to bed. We finally got them to sleep at 10 and Peter and I watched Napoleon Dynamite on the DVD player. Neither of us got much sleep because we thought it would be good for us to each sleep with one of the boys. That was a bad idea. We got poked and kicked all night. Next time we'll let the wild sleepers share a bed and we'll sleep in peace :) Joey was lying on the ironing board bed extender I made to keep Kimball from crashing on the floor all night.

The next morning we headed for the beach. We all had a blast findng sea snails and playing in the sand and water, and jumping waves in the ocean.

It was such a wonderful weekend! It was so sweet to see the pure childhood joy the boys had doing such simple things. It was great to have a mini vacation with just our little family!

Joey's preschool graduation hat. He wasn't able to be in the program because we were flying back from UT that day.