The Blessed Beach Week

This past week my side of the family headed to Virginia Beach for our annual beach week. It was wonderful. Here are quite a few pictures, which are very out of order (sorry), outlining what we did throughout this past week:

We played in the pool (Taylor)
We spent time with cousins (Carly and Brooklyn)
We had a sandcastle building contest (Ryan, Tay, and Ashby)
The Team Hatch castle- They won the award for most affluent castle due to best use of helicopter landing pad and airplane runway
The Team Scott castle- They won the award for best interior design due to the use of sea shells and sea weed.

The Team Johnson castle- They won the award for Best use of props. Check out the drawbridge, the fence, and the fire pit in the back.
(More of the building process Stacey and Taylor)
The Team Stringham castle- They won the most zen like castle because the area was combed well with a plastic rake.

We judged the contest (and maybe it was a little too bright so Aaron had to wear my sunglasses, and maybe he looked awesome)
More building (Mema and Poppy)
More building (Ellen and Don)

We had a birthday party for Carly who turned 6.

We took lots of pictures of the grandkids (Emma, Taylor, Carly, and Brooklyn)
We were mesmerized by the trash truck
We may or may not have face planted in the sand...

We took awesome family photos

We placed flowers in our hair and then forgot they were there when people started taking pictures.

We laughed a lot (Emma Lu)
We went to chick-fil-a.
We took a girls picture (Mema, Ashby, Stacey, and Me)
We watched dolphins in the ocean (Taylor, Emma, Ashby)
We went for midnight swims and looked sexy at the same time (Ryan and Aaron)
We spent a lot of time in the hot tub once the kiddos were in bed.
I hit my 30 week mark.

We partied... maybe a little too hard (Emma)

We dipped our feet in the sand, and let the boys take over (Brooklyn, Carly, Ryan, Emma, Aaron, and Taylor)
We coordinated outfits without even realizing it. (aaron and taylor)
We spent more time in the hot tub (Aaron, Mema, Ashby, and Ryan)
We spent time laying in the sand.
The men golfed.
The women had a book club. (We read Push Not The River, it was definitely a great read)
And maybe we went in the hot tub during the day with the kids.

We also ate our weight in junk food, and had a jelly belly taste test contest (Stacey beat us all).

I'm incredibly sad that the week is already over and i'm pretty sure i've already started my countdown to next year's beach week. Now its back to real life, sad day.

Thanks fam for an awesome week!