Thanksgiving Weekend in Quogue

We woke up Thanksgiving morning and started a puzzle!  A Harry Potter puzzle that was practically all the same color.  Hmmm.. It said 8+  I might argue with that, but then again maybe when I have an 8 year old I will be a better judge of that!  Taking breaks here and there we finished by midafternoon, it was very satisfying, I forgot how much I love puzzles!

The puzzle came with a secret decoder, you can see Caden holding it here.You were supposed to use it to find hidden images within the puzzle.. Clearly we were using it wrong because we found nothing which was a bit of a let down!

After lunch Cora fell asleep so we took the boys to the beach to run out some energy!  Caden was a bit grumpy to start because he had wanted to go to the playground, but then he realized how fun the beach was.

Cole loves the beach no matter what season.

He master throwing.. when he started throwing rocks he was leading with the wrong foot.

Re-load...

There were a bunch of these clams along the beach and they were alive!  I'm not a clam fan to begin with but I cannot imagine eating one this large!

The beach is so different right now compared to the summer.  In the summer there was no flat shallow area like you see here.  In the summer it drops off quickly... It was so pretty to see it like this!

Snail

The way the waves crash it creates this ledge at high tide.. Cole spent a good amount of the time jumping up, landing on his butt and sliding down.

Aww!! Look they do love each other!

Caden was yelling my name.. "Mom, take a picture of me throwing the football!"  Okay!  But then I had him move his arm so that we could actually see the ball and his expression wasn't good..  so they got deleted.

Of course Cole has to send most of the time in the sand.. he found a feather and stuck it in the hole of the football and was pretending it was a sailboat.. pretty imaginative i thought.

And on our way out they obviously didn't want to leave so we spent some time on the steps climbing up the railing.. hope they don't get to fond of the game since it should probably only be done in the off-season.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Our only family picture.. our shadow family! 

Next day we were back at the beach.. while it was warm a couple miles inland, the wind was rip roaring at the beach so we didn't stay very long that day.

But they did get a few last railing climbs in...

Saturday morning we went to the playground, the weather was unseasonably warm! 

After the playground we went to the field club for an  event.  The kids were in arts and crafts heaven and we came home with several projects each.  Once they'd had enough we headed outside to where all the kids gather.. the sand pit on the 9th hole (or 18th on how many holes you are playing!!)

Really?  They smoothed this pit for at least a half hour! Apparently we need to turn our yard into a sand pit with big rakes to get the kids to help out!