a quick beach trip

we got back last night from an overnight trip to charleston, sc. we had a great and eventful time. these little trips have changed quite a lot over the years. bringing a one and three year old to the ocean is definitely not relaxing, but it is such a joy to watch them experience new things.

memories from our little trip...

we visited fort moultrie and viewed fort sumter from afar. it was SO hot.

jobot and i got painful ant bites.

jeremy walked into playground equipment and got a minor but bloody gash on his forehead.

we saw a very interesting beach house.

jeremy and i caught a minnow (after a near-argument and an intense exercise in teamwork - ha!).

we flew our kite on the beach.

we spent sunday afternoon at a wonderful beach with tide pools - perfect for the kiddos!

jeremy, love, and jobot swam in the atlantic for the first time (i already had).

we walked and walked and walked downtown charleston trying to find a place to eat on sunday night. it was all too fancy and expensive. finally, we drove away from downtown and got some food.

we saw an amazingly beautiful sunset that we wouldn't have seen if we hadn't walked for so long looking for a place to eat. (as usual, pictures couldn't capture it).

the kids tried {free} cotton candy for the first time. love happily dove in and jobot was a little timid...until he tasted it.

we all successfully slept in one hotel room overnight. it went pretty well. (also, for some strange reason it looks like jeremy has a tattoo on his upper arm in the photo below. he doesn't.)

the kids watched t.v. in the hotel room. we don't have a t.v. and we learned that love didn't even know what a commercial was! funny!

we spent part of monday morning exploring a beach for sea life. love was thrilled when we found a dead jellyfish on the sand! she had high hopes of seeing a jellyfish on this trip! we found another one later in the day. she was a happy camper!

 we also found a crab. he wasn't too happy that we caught him. we all got a good look at him and then let him go.

jobot showed off his little bum at the beach.

the beach was beautiful.

we went through an entire tube of sunscreen and no one got sunburned.

the kids and their daddy had a blast in the public fountain in downtown charleston. i had a fun time watching them!

we spent a rainy part of the afternoon swinging on the pier.

we walked the public market, visited the animals in the big red barn, marveled at the horse carriages going by, and the kids got ice cream. we loved the cobblestone streets, colorful houses, and beauty of the city.

we hardly took any photos because we were both too busy chasing kids!

our trip home took an extra two hours due to bad traffic and then a torrential downpour/severe thunderstorm that was so bad we had to pull off the road for a bit. the kids cried and screamed...a lot. it was all quite stressful.

when we got home we put the kids in bed, dropped all our stuff in the house, took showers, and collapsed into bed.

this morning was an extra cup of coffee morning. we did laundry, unpacked, and even had time to wash all our shell treasures.

love drew this picture today. apparently the jellyfish left quite the impression.