Surf's Up!

Thanks to our generous hosts -- my uncle John and cousin Gail (and their families!!) -- Noah, Lily, Anna and I rounded out our holiday weekend with a fantastic trip to Rehoboth Beach, DE.  Not even the daily afternoon rain storms extinguished the fun.

Highlights include (in no particular order):

1. Ocean, ocean and more ocean...complete with DOLPHINS!
2. Sand, sand and more sand (I'm still finding sand falling out of the diaper bag, along with a particularly scary looking spider I must have picked up along the beach somewhere)
   
3. Great fun, and good late-night visits with extended family
   
4. The YUMMY cherry pie we made from the tart cherries we picked on the 4th
   
5. Watching Lily play with her twin cousins
6. Watching Anna smile up at anyone and everyone who held her...and she definitely was passed around (I think she especially bonded with Pete!)
7. GUITAR HERO -- completely obsessed at this point!!
8. Wii Fit -- oh how we're hooked!
9. No traffic on the trip to the beach
10. Insanely good peaches and tomatoes that we bought from a roadside stand on the way home

Lily with cousin Katie

Lily and Katie -- running from the waves!

Lily burying Julian -- no many how many times they did this, it never got old (got to love young imaginations!)