Truly a Vacation

We just arrived home after a one week vacation to Ormond Beach, Florida. We stayed at a Spinnaker resort and my sister Paula and her family joined us. My Mom and Dad also came down for part of the trip and brought my nephew, Andy and niece Lauren. The kids did wonderful in the car with only having to make two stops. The resort was great as it had a huge pool overlooking the ocean with lots of fun kids activities. There was a miniature golf course on site in addition to lots of other games. Each day we awoke and split the day between the pool and the beach. Half way through the trip we decided that the twins were missing way too much fun during their nap time so we decided to just skip them...yes we just skipped them and they lasted all day and night. The twins were such troopers and they were in heaven with all of their big cousins. Their cousins were sweet to build sand castles with them and play games in the pool with them. We bought puddle jumpers for the trip which are kind of like swimmies and they allowed the twins to swim all by themselves. We cooked out for some of our dinners and the other nights we were able to walk to local restaurants. We explained what "souvenirs" were to the twins and they had their first souvenirs shopping experience. Gracie picked out a stuffed glittery mermaid and Bailey found a plastic shark that made the perfect pool toy. The beach had an ice cream truck that came everyday and so the twins enjoyed nice sandy cold ice creams every day while watching the waves crash. Things do not get much better then an ice cream truck on the beach! For seven days we did the same thing everyday and never got tired of it. It was truly a "vacation" and a lasting memory of a great week spent with family.