Ah, family beach trip 2013. It was good.
I really didn’t take a lot of pictures with my ‘big’ camera…. 3 kids and a sandy beach made finding time to pull out the camera, take pictures and then safely pack it back up a little tough. Plus, I really try to live in the moment when I am with my family, and not behind the camera. It’s hard though, because I wanted both. I wanted to capture gorgeous pictures to remember it all, but I also wanted to be there. Be present.

And so, I used my iphone and instagram a lot. As in, if you follow me on Instagram you may have rolled your eyes and said “enough!” and if you don’t follow me… well, feel free to do so! You can find me under the name bobbie__brown (that’s two underscores)

We went out on the beach right after getting there and grabbing a bite to eat. We didn’t bother with bathing suits, and within 5 seconds everyone was wet! Can you tell they were just a little bit excited?

My three girls, heading down to the beach…

We were so glad to have Poppa and MawMaw with us again this year… Here is Bristol with MawMaw.

Stuart woke me up early one morning and said “Babe, wake up! Hurry! Lets go watch the sunrise!” Seriously dude. I love him. It was amazing. This is what we saw as we hurried down the boardwalk…

We got down on the beach just in time for the incredible display of light…

30 minutes later it looked like this…

We took a later morning walk with the whole family once everyone else got up….

A quick shot I took after supper one night…

My Aunt texted me and asked me to get a picture of Poppa and MawMaw on the beach… as she said “two of my favorite people at one of my favorite places”… I was happy to do it

Here are a few teeny tiny collages with some of the iPhone pictures… Sigh… I don’t know why they are so small, but now that they are here, I have decided to just leave them and move on to the list of things I need to be doing instead of fixing this. I know, totally professional of me. But, feel free to click on these to see them larger.

Thanks for looking!