One afternoon last week looked like this for the Eccleston family. Just sitting on the dock, watching huge fish and crazy big pelicans dart around in their giant aquarium home we like to call the ocean. What a sweet little piece of heaven!
And of coarse those snap shots are thankfully what we usually remember a few years down the road when you can forget or block out the fact that getting to that dock, that sweet and glorious moment, didn't come easy. We don't necessarily recommend doing an out of your way connecting flight which takes all day with 2 small children for parents sanity, in case anyone wanted to know our thoughts on that!! But hey...cheaper is cheaper, right!!??!!
Ryan got his exercise for the year trying to load, unload, carry, chase after, hold, wait and sprint after Griffin and all the luggage that I tried ever so hard to pack lightly...ha ha!
The boys were fascinated with everything plane and got a great dose of traveling under their wings.
and now all the boys can say they have been to New York, although we decided to wait to purchase these shirts until we had all stepped out of the airport onto Big Apple soil:)!
All that caused many a melt down but honestly was worth every moment of traveling terror when we I got to this...
Hello Sunshine:)
WORTH IT! TOTALLY!
The first few days consisted of just the 4 us at the pool...
perfecting our swimming and jumping stylings,
hanging out with 2 ridiculous and adorably nerdy looking matching swimsuit clad boys,
and perfecting our smiles and tans!
After the pool every afternoon we hit up this deliciously big tub (pool time #2) for the boys to get all cleaned up from the sand and surf and get ready for dinner and jammies!
This trip was the epitome of FAMILY TRIP with little sprinkles of VACATION for Ry and I mixed in here and there:)! There were some moments of sheer insanity, someone who decided that sleeping wasn't really all that necessary (not to throw anyone under the bus, but Sawyer, really???), sun burns, 1 strawberry daiquiri spilled in someone's crotch and just the stress of traveling with 2 small children. But honestly, as I look back through these pictures I am overwhelmingly feeling so blessed that God made a way for us to get away and have some of these experiences with our kids. Ryan and I even got a "date" night in there which was one of my favorite parts of the trip...think kids in bed, a glass of wine, candles, yummy take out food and your best friend all to your self on the porch in Florida. This is my BLISS! It was a very short moment, but it was one indeed! And these snap shots will tide me over and motivate me to go through all the motions to do it again, we had such a great time!!
