Galveston 3 and massive seaweed

We went to galveston for the third time in the past 2 weeks over the weekend. It's been so wonderful to go down, even if the seaweed was incredible. I'm glad the kids are starting to love the beach. I think it's a great love for them to have. Enoch keeps asking when we're going back.

The seaweed was so high at the beach we went to we were worried there wouldn't be a place for the kids to play. The waves broke right on giant heaps of seaweed so there wasn't really a beach. We carved out a niche in the seaweed for the kids to play in the sand. Within an hour, it had become a giant swimming pool. It was awesome and the kids loved it. All the other kids on the beach were jealous and soon joined in on the fun.

Oh and Sharon boogie boarded like a mad woman. The waves were surprisingly large.

Galveston 4/2014

A few days ago we went to Galveston. It was a wonderful little day trip. The weather has warmed up to ideal beach weather, and the water jumped up to 71 degrees this week. We were able to go on Monday and it looks like we're going to go again tomorrow. All day during the beach I kept on thinking how wonderful it was. It's been a while since we've been, and Enoch and Michael both started out very timid. By the end of the day the were both braving waves that were too big for them and Enoch got his first boogie board rides in. They were also both amazed by a sand tunnel I built. Sharon got some good rides in on the boogie board, too. Took over 200 pictures... went home and deleted half of them. Here's about 30 of them...

Sharon looks great!

Three boys clinging to daddy.

Michael made about 30 trips to fill up his bucket with water

Made a sea weed turtle

Peter never really got too into the whole water or wet sand thing

He looks very doubtful about what I'm about to make him do

Was really proud of how Enoch did.

Love this photo

I love this photo of Enoch and Michael holding hands in the water. They are so excited.

It was taken from this sequence. Fun to see Enoch run to Michael's side, hold his hand, play with each other in the wave, and then Enoch abandoned Michael when the waves looked too big and scary.

My favorite part of the trip was caught on tape when Sharon caught Enoch getting his best ride.