Time for an update! Although can you really call it an update when you have nothing to update?
This has been one of the longest and most intense emotional roller coasters I’ve ever been on. You have the peaks at the top of the hill, the very low valleys that sometimes feel like reach much faster than you reached the top, twists, turns, and even a few loopty loops. It’s a real roller coaster only with your emotions. Now don’t get me wrong, I LOVE a good roller coaster. However, it is much different when your body is making those peaks, valleys, twists, turns, and loops than when it’s your emotions. Oh and two minutes is a little different than 2 years also. Give me the two minutes of throwing my body around a steel track anyday!
We did finally decide to get away as a family for a few days (and took my best friend's family along with us). We took Memorial Day weekend and went to the beach. LONG OVERDUE! I hadn’t been to the beach since a few weeks after I found out I was expecting Dakota. This was Dakota’s first time to see the beach and feel sand and ocean water between his toes. He loved it!
I’m including some pictures below of our trip. Hope you enjoy!
As I said, this was Dakota's first time in the water. He LOVED it! Please ignore my redneck husband's camo on in the water...
Dakota loved throwing the sand.
This poor child has trouble taking pictures...He'll smile but before you can click the button to snap the picture, he'll look away.
If you look closely behind this picture, you'll see a fin. It's a dolphin fin. This place had more dolphins than I'd ever seen from a beach. I had a blast watching them.
I just have to show this....me and my friend both looked like Casper out on the beach. There were some bright white legs on that beach!
So before you judge me on the picture below, let me just say - I am no longer a fan of spray on sunscreen. We were at the beach maybe 3 hours that morning. I sprayed sunsreen on him before we left to go and once while we were there. My poor baby got sunburned so badly on his back. Needless to say, I went out that afternoon and bought him some suncreen lotion/cream and SLATHERED him in it the next day.
Jon caught his first ocean fish from standing on the beach. My little outdoorsmen was so happy!
On Sunday, we visited Fort Morgan. It was cool for the boys to get to see a "REAL FORT!"
And of course, what trip is complete without go carts? There's not too many go carts that little man is big enough to drive, but he had fun on this one!
Getting away was a good break for me. It gave me a chance to clear my head a bit (at least for the weekend) and for a few days, every waking moment wasn't spent wondering when our baby would arrive. This was definitely one of the most needed vacations I have ever taken.
Still waiting, hoping, and praying...
