Stone Harbor vacation!

One week without the computer while on vacation.....I have to admit I was having some withdraw but the beach sure beats the web!!! Some of the days reminded me of the times when I was a kid! We'd pack it up & plop on the beach ALL DAY! The boys were such troopers- they loved it! I guess that's what you get when you take your oldest to the beach at 3 weeks old! Marc was 4 months, and for that lucky duck it was Florida!
Here's a breakdown of what I can remember!
Saturday 8/1
Basically just a busy day getting there! Drama with the car on the way. The house was not clean- ewww, I actually broke out some bleach!! (believe it!) Took the boys to walk on the beach after all the hype of going to the "beach"! Matthew's been looking forward to it for, according to him, 40 weeks! Funny thing is it's almost been that- of course he has no clue, just loves the #40! Macks pizza for dinner of course!
Bed time was a struggle. Thanks Emily for that pack n play- phew! My Marc is cRAzY!
Sunday 8/2
Hit up the beach early since the weather didn't look promising. Met up with Mare (Matt's mom) & her friend Denise & the sun surprised us so we stayed for a good bit. Another funny (although Matt didn't find it to funny) Mare & Denise left before us & had our bag with the keys in it so we had to walk a WHOLE 3 blocks back to the house to find them sitting on our porch! Matt had to go back to pick up his car! Then the rain hit! Luckily it let up as we were all done showers and ready for the next adventure! We took the boys crabbing a bit! Fun, Fun!
Monday 8/3
Breakfast bay front at Polly's place! Then beach, beach, beach!! We got to meet up with Aunt Bon, Uncle Phil, Phil & Molly w/ little Sep and Jenn!! That was cute to see the kids play!! Matthew loved all the attention from his GodMommy Jenn!! Later that night we met up with Mare & Marty (Matt's dad) to take the boys to Wildwood! They loved it! And I got funnel cake....everyone was happy! :)
Happy Birthday Mare!!
Tuesday 8/4
Spent nearly all day on the beach! Hit up a new yummy Mexican restaurant in Avalon for dinner! Oh we swung by coffee talk that morning for coffee- I just love that place, reminds me of the set of Friends!
Wednesday 8/5
Another early day to the beach! We left sometime in the afternoon- the joy of not watching the clock!!! While Marc & Mommy napped Matt took Matthew fishing on Grandpops boat.
Thursday 8/6
Iffy skies= no beach today :( We did do some shopping & walking on 96th. And also "building golf" aka roof top mini golf. It was clearer by afternoon so we had a successful time crabbing! Got about 7 keepers! We ordered some yummy seafood for dinner to go along with! DELICIOUS!
Friday 8/7
We pulled another all dayer on the beach! Hiding our lunch from the seagulls was challenging but we managed! Pizza on the beach for dinner- that was fun! Matt & I did that pre-kids so it was a bit different than um say 5 years ago!
Saturday 8/8
Bittersweet end! Now by this time I was missing my house, mainly my BED!! OMG the bed was rock hard!! We turned down another rental that was super in other ways b/c of the master bed. Apparently we didn't try the bed here since the owners were there when we did the walk through back in January.....bad move!! Who can sleep like that???
We cleaned the place ourselves to save $$ on hiring some cleaning service and now I know something very important after 10 years
HE CAN CLEAN, HE CAN CLEAN!!!! hehehehe our house is next!!!
The drive home was uneventful, good I guess! It was so nice to walk through the door!! It felt so spacious & homey!! I appreciate my house so much more since vacation! There was always something I was thinking of doing to the place or w/ this or that, but I think the time away made me want to just sit back, relax and enjoy what I have!! :)

I'm so glad we were able to take a week long family vacation! Looking forward to next year....maybe a different place though! :)

Pics to follow!