First Beach Trip

Every year our extended family on Aaron's side takes a trip to Grayton Beach in Florida. It's our favorite place to visit, and Claire was actually named after the beach. And no, she was not conceived there, since that's what everyone assumes. This year's trip was probably our best ever, because it was Claire's first trip to a beach! She wasn't too sure about the sand on the first day, but warmed up to it after a few minutes. It's tasty!!

We spent lots of time playing on the beach, hanging out with the family, going to the Red Bar, and shopping, which Claire did not love as much as Mommy did. But she got a ton of cute clothes, so she should be happy! The girl loves her clothes! I got lots of new clothes too :) Gotta spoil yourself every once in a while!!

On the 4th of July, Michelle and I did an impromptu photo shoot on the beach with Jenni the photog, and got a bunch of cute pictures! Jenni bought the girls adorable matching dresses at Strasburg that were perfect for some beachy pics. And I had some fun playing with them on my photoshop!



After the photo shoot (at 7am, the only time you didn't want to die from the heat), we went and watched the Grayton 4th of July parade. Claire watched from Daddy's shoulders, but wasn't too into the parade.

We watched the 4th of July fireworks on the beach, which is really pretty awesome in Grayton. The town in about halfway between Panama City and Destin, so you can see the fireworks from both of them, as well as the ones that are shot from a barge out in the gulf. And there were lots of people shooting fireworks on Grayton's beach too. So there were fireworks everywhere you could see! Claire did pretty well, especially since the last fireworks that we saw scared the crap out of her.

4th of July pics

going to dinner

Oh my...

the whole group....21 people, 3 dogs, and 3 houses
and she's done...

We're very excited to go back next year, Michelle has already reserved our house! Grayton Sanctuary, get ready!!

New Milestones!

No pictures to prove that either of these are true, but Claire has finally gotten her first tooth, and has started crawling! The tooth has been a long time in the making, I've been able to see it under her gums for almost a month, but it finally broke it's jagged little edge through on June 30th. It's very adorable, even though you can't see much of it yet. She has also started some army-crawling, and can scoot around pretty well that way. She's trying to get up on her hands and knees to do some "real" crawling, but for now, army-style works for her! Hopefully some pictures of both new "tricks" to come soon!!