We spent a fabulous family fourth week at the beach!
The Tuesday before the 4th, Eddie's mom and dad, both sisters and brother-in-law all flew in. We headed to my parents house at the beach for the week! My mom and dad were there waiting for us, so it really was a family-filled week....and it was SO much fun!
We had 11 people under one roof and we all had the best time together!
I have no idea how to do this post-- I took close to 300 pics over the week...oh, and did I mention there was a hurricane? Yeah. We took a direct hit! Thankfully, there was no damage and all was fine.
We had amazing weather-- even with a hurricane! We were able to go to the pool the whole morning of the day it was supposed to hit and the weather didn't turn cloudy/rainy until around 6 and then the storm hit in the middle of the night, so we didn't lose any time outside.
We had a blast just being together! I told myself I could pick 10 pics to post. Well. I failed.
Here is a peek at our week.....
We.....
played on the beach:
Mom broke everyone into teams and each team had to cook one night...we came up with themes (of course we did). My team (Patty, Big Ed, Tommy and me) tackled A Taste of Texas. Tommy and I were the "outlaws."
Uncle Ah-Ho got a full workout daily from toting around kids-- they LOVE him and he is too sweet to them. He had a kid attached to him 99% of the day...starting early!
We went shopping to AB before the hurricane hit! CB and I had to play with hats...
We pretended to be scared of the fact that a hurricane was coming! CB was ready to fight the thing-- Trish and I were scared...
We had a dance party when the rain started...not really for any other reason than to shake booties...
Hurricane night was Mexican theme night! Ole!
These two cuties weren't scared at all!
We got matching shirts and had to do a pic outside pre-storm.
All the ladies in their AB shirts...
The night of the storm, I will admit, it was actually pretty scary. The winds reached up to 100 mph, which made it a category 2 storm.... it was just scary listening to the winds whip around. Andy was sleeping sort of near a window, so we moved him into our bed, and then we ended up moving Cal into CB's bed.... needless to say, not many people got much sleep that night!
But the next morning we woke up to the most beautiful weather!!!
We hit the beach early and spent the majority of the day there playing hard.
Again, getting his workout...
We surfed some! (Eddie was in heaven with the waves after the storm-- he was a surfing machine for most of the day!)
Oh. We drank.... did I mention that part yet?? We drank!
All the girls!
The siblings....
Love these smiles...
The original fab 5
CB had to go home on Saturday. :( booooooooooooooo
On Saturday afternoon, we took the boys over to meet the puppies....
(and I melted inside!)
Saturday evening we cooked out and played outside and then went for a boat ride to watch the sun set.
Andy is extremely fond of uncle ah-ho... these next pictures are so sweet!
And, I love love love this one of Cal on the boat!
Hank was allowed to come for the ride and he was thrilled to be included. He sat right next to me the whole time...
Andy managed to change some settings on Tricia's phone and took a selfie-- I kinda love it!
These two love birds are awesome....
It was SUCH a great week at the beach. I feel so blessed that we have a family that even
wants to get together...not to mention, we all actually
get along-- ZERO drama! 11 people in one house and zero drama... tell me that's not unheard of. I am thankful my parents opened up their house to the Williamsons and I am even MORE thankful that my parents get along with the whole Williamson crew so well! It was pretty fabulous to me to have everyone I love so much under one roof!
BLESSED.
