COOKin' Down South: September 2013

September summed up in 5 words:

God's Beauty and Cute kids

Spider webs that my kids described as DVD's

A belated birthday gift from her brother

He knows what she likes!

The cutest looking laundry EVER!

To the kids: A Fort . . . To their mom: A HUGE mess ;)

"Look Mom! We can breathe! We made it with breathing holes." HA!

Always on the lookout for a frog (or in this case toad). Found one Sunday while leaving small groups.

Gorgeous sunset after a very rainy Saturday

Same sunset, facing north

My oldest impressed with his wave making abilities

A full moon at 6am - just beautiful.

Another gorgeous sunset, this time over the foothills of Oak Mountain - view through our bedroom window.

Our baby boy singing for Wed night clubs (top row, 2nd from left)

He was so impressed with his twisting skills.

I'm a lot more brave around spiders than I used to be. But if this thing were in my house, I'd be screaming and running the opposite direction while yelling for Matt to kill it. :) We found this while Tree Frog hunting.

Fort Morgan, AL

(Gulf Shores)

We vacationed with some great friends.

We had some great food.

And we had a great time.

Here is our vacation:

Sept 7 -14, 2013

Can a 2 door Civic hold a family of 6's vacation things. Oh yes it can! (With a little help of our friend's car)

The Beach House - Serendipity

Our room

The kids' room

The family bathroom, yes, I took a picture of a bathroom. ;)

The Eat-In part of the eat-in-kitchen

The open living room with a view of the beach

The open kitchen

We just arrived and unpacked - The kids were very ready to get to the beach.

The water was a bit murky, but we didn't deal with jellyfish that day.

burying feet

half of a child

Jumping into the waves

Sunrise walk with my sweet little man

We were told that this was a Civil War boat that had burned and sunk at sea. One of the recent hurricanes washed it up onto the shore.

Love this cutie

The innertubes were a big hit

He got a hold of a crab

Sunset

Next day was a sand castle building day

My eldest decorated it

with all the dead crab shells he could find

Our friend Stuart caught the first live crab

I just love this pic.

And the second crab was caught. Which gave the men an idea. Go crab hunting for some good eats.

Sand crab that we saw on one of our sunrise walks

6ish in the morning... Pre-coffee (and shower) ha!

Sunrise that morning

The men & boys went hunting for crabs

and into the boiling pot they went

Our junior hunters

He caught a dead one. :)

Ok, now I know where "Independence Day" got their idea for the aliens in their movie.

Pretty flower blooming in the sand

My beautiful girl at Lamberts

Another sunset

Matt braving the jellyfish and taking his baby girl out for some fun

He decided to stick close to shore

Taking Gv out for some wave riding

The Blue Angels performed for us almost every day. It was... Awesome! The jet in the back did a fly-by for us later. He was so close, we could read the words on the underside of the jet. And my kids also got a lesson in "breaking the sound barrier".