The Beach: My Favorite Place! (Can You Sense the Sarcasm?)

Well, the kids start school very soon, which means summer is quickly coming to a close and I have yet to blog about anything we did. Oh well. We actually didn't do too much... I like a lazy summer. I used to start off the summer with complicated and ambitious plans about all we'd get accomplished during the break, but this year I finally gave that all up and decided to let summer break be summer break.

One thing we did do was visit grandma, and take a little trip to the beach. It was a blustery day to say the least, but the kids didn't seem to mind. They took a break from the waves to do a little seashell collecting (their collections ended up much larger than this):

Calvin mostly ate fruit and played in the sand ... 

As evidenced by his face... 

I'm not much of a beach person myself, but the kids (and Jay!) were having a blast, and that's always fun to watch, even from my huddled up position on the beach chair. :) So we soon say goodbye to another summer, and three of the kids will be in school shortly. I'm not sure I'm ready for Dexter to start kindergarten. It will be quite a change for all of us, but he couldn't be more excited. And Cal and I will just have to have a lot of little adventures on our own!