Sand and Sun...

Friday afternoon we headed to Rockaway Beach for a fun and relaxing weekend. Sophia practiced relaxing on the way down and slept the entire drive, lol. After sitting for so long, once we arrived, we buckled Sophia into her stroller and went for a walk into town. There, we found the cute little cafe we always go to for coffee, and had clam chowder. I am not much of a seafood fan, but their clam chowder was amazing!
Once my mom, my 3 brothers, and sister arrived, they met us in town and we decided to go on the beach since the sun was shining and it was gorgeous out! We walked along the beach and watched the waves roll in. I couldn't believe how nice it was. Friday night after work, my dad joined us. It had been almost a year since we had gone to the beach as a family!
Saturday we woke up and had a big breakfast and then drove a half hour to Seaside to browse in the shops and play in the arcade. Seaside was pretty busy and the arcade was insane! But we had a lot of fun and I played a few games I had never played before, like Dance Revolution. Oh my goodness do I have slow reflexes. Me and my older brother, Shawn put the setting on easy and we did really good, but then we changed it to standard and we were cracking up the whole time because we were stinking so bad that we failed, lol. But it was so much fun! We were all starving by the time we got done in the arcade that we stopped by a candy shop (bought way too many sweets), and then had dinner at 'Doogers', pretty much the best seafood restaurant in Seaside. We were so exhausted by the end of the day that we headed home to unwind. We ended up watching Bedtime Stories, which was pretty cute, and then headed to bed for some much needed zzzz's.
Sunday morning we had breakfast at 'The Bite' and then because we were blessed to have more sunny weather, we went to the beach and played volleyball. Man, am I out of shape! We had three on each team and were running around like crazy to keep the ball in the air. I'm sure it was quite comical to watch, but all us kids had a blast playing together! While we were playing volleyball, my mom was playing with Sophia in the sand. It was so warm, that we took her shoes off and let her walk around in the sand barefoot. She didn't mind her little toes in the sand, however, she didn't like sand on her hands, and every time she would fall and get sand on her hands, she would brush them together to get the sand off. Sophia absolutely loved the beach!

Enjoying a family stroll on the beach

"The Boys" (Cameron, Jeff, Cole & Shawn)

My little sis, Cassidy, and my Mom

Sophia lovin' the fresh air and sunshine

The weekend went by way too fast, as it always does, and we didn't want to come home:( We had such a blast at the beach and also a wonderful time spending the weekend with my family.