Another Beach Day...

One weekend a long long time ago :) We made our annual trip to Hampton Beach State Park with the Sevin's for some beach fun.

The Cole's

The girls liked hanging out together...

The boy's liked passing the football

Cole need some practice, but he just loves hanging out in shallow water and right on the edge in the sand.

Can you imagine having 5 children aged 6 and under?  Plenty of people do it i am sure!! But I don't envy them!

I think this picture is funny because it is like Cora and the lady in front of her are doing the same thing.. I wonder if she was wearing pink crocs too!

The jetty

We got to introduce the Sevin's to the best ice cream on Earth!... Hodgies Mmmm.

Charlotte sure enjoyed it!  Her chocolate mustache was hilarious!

Kid shot of 5 very tired beach kids

Polar Caves!

We were North a bit on an errand.. so we thought we'd jaunt up an additional hour or so to the Polar Caves!

The kids were extra excited because a little piece of them was hoping to see a real Polar Bear

They have a small practice rock formation to go through to make sure you aren't claustrophobic.. we all passed :)  but right here you can see the difference between being a child and being an adult! We soon saw that that afternoon the kids went for a walk through some rock caves while Rob and I twisted, ducked, and contorted ourselves to get through the park!

  

Lot's of steep steps deep into the depths of coolness on a hot summer day... we even saw ice in one of the caves!

Our cave explorers, unfortunately since the caves were practically pitch black I had to use a lot of flash.

In we go!

Can you imagine building all the walkways?

Best Buddies.. my favorite Caden quote of the day as we went through the first cave was "Wow... we should have worn gloves.  We sure are touching a lot of nature here!" In his defense a lot of them were quite damp.

I didn't realize what Rob was gesturing to me until just now when I was choosing which photos to include.. I kept it anyway because it makes me laugh.. he didn't realize he was skipping a cave as he sauntered down "Party Poopers Lane", but he didn't hear the end of it!

In the end you have to choose between Orange Crush or Lemon Squeeze, we figured we'd start with Orange Crush and then do the other.. but we didn't realize it was one or the other.. something to go back for!

 

Under the Kissing Bridge they didn't want to smooch Cora on the cheek as I requested, but we got this one showcasing a little more personality instead!

Into the gift store to purchase some mining stones Cole-Bear proved we nicknamed him appropriately.

Ready and waiting for the fun to begin

  

Caden jumped right in, not needing much instruction

Cole being our special child required a little assistance.

Cora watched the boys closely as they figured it out and took it head on!

Rob jumped in to assist really quick... and then she was back at it.. we have to remind ourselves sometimes that she is only two!

Some of our "gems"

I have this thing.. I see hearts in things no one else sees.. Rob thought I was carzy.. seriously?  This is totally a heart!

I like all things rustic.

Why thank you we will!

Quogue Vacation: The End

You will be happy to know that we have come to the end of our beach vacation.. unfortunately (for you :) ) we did go to the beach again during the summer, so there WILL be more beach pictures! Sorry, can't help it.  Above the kids collect drift wood to help with their "cooking".

Meanwhile.. we lose one toward the water!

Beach Spaghetti!  Every dieter's dream!

Uncle Aaron shows us how it is done

Who needs a boogie board?!

Stylin'

Rob wallows

Another sand flea.. clearly related to Cole :)

I see a modeling career in this ones future!

No vacation ends without ice cream!  So after the beach we headed to the local shoppe.

Cole loved this tent, he found Dundore's iPod and holed up in here to "make cookies"

On our way home from ice cream we passed a pond with lots of lily pads and lily's all over.. so before dinner we went for a bike ride to... take photos of them :)

But I guess they close up early!  Who knew?

There were a gazillion frogs though!  Every step around the pond you'd see frogs jump back into the water.. Cole and Cora stopped to watch them more closely.

Where's Cole?!  he thought this was hilarious, little did he know he really is quite hidden!

Our trip to the pond was Cole's first bike ride on his own! other than cruising around in front of our house anyway. 

Here we go!  Rob walked with us in case Cole got tired, but he made it the whole way.

Dundore reads good stories!

Our final day we didn't hit the beach exactly.. but we did go to the inlet, we lucked out and saw a fishing boat come in.

There was sand though.. and a lot of fishing folk hang out here, so there are a lot of treasures.  The kids found a dead fish down in rock crevice, I think that was the highlight of their day, they thought it was amazing!

Bubble are every one's best friend.

Cora plays the role of big cousin very well

We ate lunch on the benches.. I recently learned this tidbit "It ain't lunch if it don't crunch"  how true that is!

If this doesn't say excitement nothing does!