St. George's Island - October 2013 - Family Pictures

We decided to try attempt some family pictures while we were at the beach and I think they turned out reasonably well. :)

Just the 6 of us :)

 Grammy and Grand-Dad with their munchkins 

 McKinley and me

 The girls

 Grammy with her sweet Jackson

 Grand-Dad and his girls

 

 McKinley - 8 months

 

 Jackson - 3 years old

 Kennedy - almost 5 years old

 Reagan - 6 1/2 years old

 I really wanted a picture of all 4 kids, but since I didn't get that, I settled for 3 precious girls

We had such a great week at St. George's Island! We can't wait to go back! :)



St. George's Island - October 2013 - Lighthouse

One afternoon we headed into town to do a little shopping and see the lighthouse. It was another nice day on the island! :)

 The little guys had fun playing on a playground while everyone else climbed to the top of the lighthouse. 

St. George's Island - October 2013 - Beach House and Pool

Besides the incredible location our beach house, Dream Chaser, had a pool and hot tub. I had no idea we would enjoy these so thoroughly! Especially with little guys in the house it was so nice to be able to let some kids hop in the pool while others napped etc. We were definitely spoiled and my kids are such water bugs I would definitely want a pool again another time! :)

 

 

  

 

Enjoying hot tub time with Grammy :)

 Jackson enjoyed hanging out at the beach house and playing Magna Tiles with Daddy throughout the week.

 Grammy fixed incredible meals all week long including these super yummy sticky buns! :)

 Grammy took the girls into town to get Reagan's ear's pierced and also bought fingernail polish so we could be beautiful. :)

 

McKinley is sure Grand-Dad's baby! :)

What a great week on the beach and at the beach house! We had tons of family fun everywhere! :)



St. George's Island - October 2013 - Wildlife

 One of the highlights of the week for all of us were the number of dolphins we saw. This was my third trip to St. George's Island and each time I've been the number of dolphin sightings and proximity to the beach has been amazing! They are so much fun to watch especially when they're jumping and putting on a fabulous show! :)

 

Every night the beaches came alive with crabs. We had lots of fun trying to capture them as they ran along the water's edge. This is biggest guy we managed to catch and it was so appropriate that Jackson was wearing his "crabby" jammies that evening. :)

 

 The kids favorite wildlife of the trip was most assuredly the frogs that appeared all around our beach house and pool each night. No idea how many of these cute little guys we tortured played with during our week at the beach.

 Kissing frogs :)

It was the end of the sea turtle hatching season so we had really hoped to see some of those too, but unfortunately we didn't get quite that lucky. Maybe next time! :)

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One encounter we didn't plan or necessarily want was with a large (I would guess about 6ft) shark one afternoon at the beach. I was so close I could have reached out and touched it had I not been both shocked and panicked to see it appear in front of me. Luckily it wanted to get away from us as much as we wanted to get away from him! :)

St. George's Island - October 2013 - The Beach

Grand-Dad, Tim and McKinley posting for me on the way to the beach in front of our beach house.

On the way with all our gear :)

 We had almost as much fun in the sand as we did in the water :)

 

 Kennedy pretending to be a sea turtle with one of our floats

 Toes in the ocean

 

   My "Little Mermaid"