Labor Day Lounging: Beach Bum Style

We decided about a month ago to get away for Labor Day weekend to say goodbye to summer and start the school year out right! The boys have been talking about the beach for months. "A" used to tell us he dreamed about the beach every night. Well, we introduced the kids to the beach...South Padre to be exact. It was well worth the drive even with the, "how many more minutes, NOW?!" every 20 minutes or so.

Tropical Storm Hermine didn't put a damper on our trip, as it rolled in right as we were rolling out.

The first beach day looked a bit ominous, but still such a fun day for the boys to explore this new experience of sand and salty waves! It rained pretty hard at one point and it was cold, but we stuck it out and it passed.

The kids alternated between playing in the sand, or "mud" as they called it and getting in the water. They were more likely to play in the puddles from the rain than the actual ocean at first...funny.

I loved capturing their first beach experience with my camera!! This one is so sweet with their daddy!

After our first day at the beach we went to eat at Louie's Backyard to watch the sunset and some fireworks. The weather was still hazy so I didn't really get as good a shot of the sunset as I would have liked, but still pretty.

My "A" and his creative make a toy out of anything personality came out with this claw off a king crab.

The fireworks were a great ending to a great day!

Sunday it rained some, but generally was sunnier and warmer than Saturday. It was nice because the rain cooled things off a bit.

Can you tell how much my boys loved the water? I was so glad "A" wasn't scared like he was in the pool this summer!

This momma could get used to the sand and waves for sure! I told Jeff we need a CD of wave sounds because it was so calming to me! The boys and I shared a lot of time searching for shells. We had quite a collection at the end! "J" was so proud every time he found another one! We won't discuss the hour detour we took because we accidentally threw away the what looked like trash McDonald's cup filled with our little treasures as we were packing to leave. Sweet Jeff drove back to get them and thankfully they were still there!

This is one of my favorite pictures from the trip! "A" is so sweet with his little hands on Jeff's checks! My hubby has never looked more handsome to me than he does in these candid pictures of him enjoying our precious sons!

I took a million pictures of the seagulls. The people next to us kept feeding them popcorn so they flocked to us...literally. I kept saying to the birds who were hovering very close to my head, "I think you are so pretty but you scare me!"

The boys were really into the seaweed. It was funny! They ran around collecting it and filling giant holes they dug with it. I guess they might like Galveston after all....There's no shortage of seaweed there! Please note the "grass" all around the sand castle we made.

Overall, we had a great trip filled with a lot of memory making, good seafood, sand, surf, and family fun!