The beach in the evening.
Crazy hair. She’s getting so big.
This is one of my favorite things about the beach: no skyscrapers.
Just can’t get enough of the sand!
“Princess smiles.”
Touching the water.
So happy!
Swinging and sunsets on the beach!
Love.
The new diet: Sand.
Sunsets and s’mores on the beach.
We miss you, daddy! (It’d been almost 3 weeks since we’d seen him due to training with the military.)
Welcome back!
It all began with a simple Facebook status update:
Which, suddenly became the beginning of a very impromptu road trip.
To Michigan.
With 5 kids between 2 mothers and all of our stuff crammed into one minivan.
For 12 hours straight.
In ONE day, we decided that not only would we go, but we would leave at 5:30 AM THE. NEXT. MORNING.
For the kids (all 5 and under), we packed toys, books, and snacks.
For us ( mothers)… I packed this:
–A boxed set of cards made specifically for ROAD TRIPS! In each snazzy box are cards with thought provoking questions, trivia, and games to play while on the road. So, after a few hours straight of catching up and talking, we were both ready to go through the box for a change of pace.
The Box Girls ingeniously designs this box (and others) to provide hours of fun, no matter where you are – and it definitely gave us a little something to do on our trek TO Michigan. While our kids didn’t play along this time (because we had a hard enough time explaining that YES, WE ARE STILL GOING TO MICHIGAN BUT WE REALLY DO HAVE TO STOP REAL QUICK TO GET GAS/GO THROUGH TOLL BOOTHS/ETC), it’s a great deck to play with kids approximately ages 8 and up (although I know a few kids that are younger and would get the gist of the games and questions).
If you’d like to check it out for yourself (or are just curious as to what it’s all about and would like to see some sample cards), you can go HERE.
Pictures of trip to come 
