Edisto Beach Trip 2017

We left for the beach on Wednesday morning and hit the sand as soon as we arrived at Edisto!

The cousins loved playing together at the beach and of course couldn't wait to feed the turtles at the lagoon out back.  Thankfully there had only been one appearance of Big Al and that was on Monday.

Thursday we came in early from the beach and got in line early for Bingo!  Alyssa actually won this year, with the four corners method, and choose a fishing rod for Ashley.  What a great big sister!

Since we were back from Bingo in time after a quick dinner we headed down to see the sunset.  It was just beautiful!

Of course the late nights didn't keep this little guy in bed longer than normal.  He was up bright and early Friday morning.  Before I even knew it, when Dave and I got back from our run I noticed him throwing this away.  I said to Preston, "did you eat all of those?"  Savannah chimed in "I ate four."  Preston looked at me, smiled, and said "I ate A LOT."  Ugh!  Thankfully it isn't normal practice for him to polish off an entire bag of gummy worms before 9:30am.

We took some annual family pictures

 And of course the kids enjoying burying Dave and Preston in the sand.

After a long day at the beach, the littles couldn't wait to watch the debut of Descendents 2 . . so we left Dave with them and the rest of us went to enjoy some mini golf before it got too dark.

Saturday we were up bright and early just so we could be on the beach for the sunrise!  Our family agreed that this was the BEST event of the week!!  What an amazing chance to see God's beauty and enjoy it on a quiet beach.

Before we left the beach, we made sure to mark our spot for later when we came back with the tent and car load of "stuff" that accompanies 9 people at the beach. Insanely enough it was actually still there when we went back a couple of hours later, waiting for us to set up.

Now the other super memorable event was the second (our first) appearance of Big Al.  The kids were out back feeding the turtles while Aunt Susan slept, and Grammy and Papa were getting ready.  The next things Dave and I knew they came running in screaming BIG AL, BIG AL is here.  We raced out and sure enough he was there super close to the shore, just trying to figure out how to get the bread.  See when the kids saw him they took off running and forgot to bring the bag of bread with them.  oops!  Long story short, the turtles climbed ashore and drug the bag of bread into the water.  Big Al then took over and slung the bag everywhere.  That was the end of the last bag of bread. :)

We finally made it to the beach, where Preston enjoyed trying to catch fish in his new net.

And then we took a few more fun pictures.

And that was a wrap on Edisto 2017.  Another fun and adventurous vacation in the books!  A huge thank you goes out to Grammy and Papa for inviting us and making it a trip to remember.