WildRivers.co: Orange Beach 2014

Orange Beach 2014.

This was our second year to go on our vacation to Orange Beach. Barrett goes to the Administrators conference for Heritage Academy and thankfully we get to tag along.

While he goes to meetings for 3 hours the kiddos and I get to play at the pool and beach. Sounds fun right? Making sure they both have tons of sunscreen. Packing all of the toys and snacks. Oh and having to hold the 2 year old almost the entire time because she is fearless and THINKS she is as big as brother. Numerous times she attempted to jump in the pool (with her floaties) alone. A nervous wreck I was!

BUT I would have much rather been doing that and not be in meetings all morning. Sorry daddy.

The weather was not exactly what I wanted. More rain than we would have liked and the sun always seemed to be shining when we would go in for AR’s nap. After nap time? Pretty much more rain.

Barrett and I love Destin but we will take any beach trip without complaining! On the way we stopped at Ed’s Shed to eat because daddy is obsessed with their fried shrimp. AR was much more concerned with looking at the water and drinking her sweet tea. These days she could care less about food. I really don’t get it. She has always been a little pig.

Of course Mom waited too long to try to find a puddle jumper. Daddy went to publix when we got there. I personally would not have picked this jumper to put my child in. Daddies are clueless when it comes to getting cute things. He did a good job on the Minnie Mouse arm floaties! The jumper wasn’t my favorite but hey it worked great. And AR had a nice tan line on her chunky little legs. :)

I must admit this year was WAY easier than last year. AR was only 9 months old and the beach was impossible without Barrett’s help. This year Hardy was such a big help! “I’ll carry the bag for you because I’m strong. And I’m strong because I’m six.” Love him too much.

My favorite thing to do is watch them together. It makes me the happiest

The best thing we did was getting AR a crib in our condo. She will only sleep in bed. Alone. Even when we try to get her to nap in our bed she is not having it. Seriously the crib was the best thing.