Summer is Officially Here!

I think it's safe to say that summer is officially here for the Alphabet Family. Daddy hasn't had a day off from work in over two weeks, so when we knew he was going to have today off we wanted to make sure he got to relax! What a fun day we had!

The day started out by talking at breakfast about being good at church. If the kids were good today during Mass, they would get to go to the beach and to get ice cream. Nothing like bribing a two and three year old! As I type this, I just realized that the ice cream promise never happened. At least the kids didn't remember!

Well, church wasn't the easiest hour of our day, but we made it through. There were baptisms this morning as well as Memorial Day weekenders so it was a little more packed than normal. And Dominic didn't seem to understand that not everyone around us wanted to know what color crayon he wanted to use next. I thought that he would stay quiet if he got to color, no such luck.

Did I mention that Christina got a new swim suit yesterday and HAD to wear it to church? After much convincing, she finally understood that if she was to walk in to church in her bathing suit, they would not let her come in. So she wore it UNDER her dress, so she would be ready to hit the beach right away.

We did end up making it to the beach. I was a little nervous. One big lake, three kids and two adults. At least Ethan isn't mobile and just was happy cuddling with Dad or Mom. But really the kids did great. Christina was all about going down to the lake and getting buckets of water. Dominic was just content sitting in a hole Daddy dug him and playing in the sand. They could have cared less that there was a giant lake behind them and jumbo amusement park on the other side. They were just having a ball in what they thought was their own private extra large sandbox.

Christina dumping water from one pail to the other.

Dominic ready to dig in.

Right after we arrived, filling our pails to make sand castles.

Dominic filling his turtle.

He played happily in the sand just digging and dumping, over and over again!

Christina quite proud of her first sand castle.

Ethan had a never ending battle wearing his hat.

I think he looks cute with it on!

All and all great family fun day! You know they had fun when they're all in bed asleep by 7:30!