Beach Vacation 2016

In the cold of winter, we Kiser women sat down and started looking for beach houses.  It seemed at that point that the week we chose would be a long ways off.  However, it really did not take long for the last week of July to come.

On Sunday July 24 we headed to the beach.  It didn't take us long to head to the beach.

Adam made several "seats" in the sand. 

I loved seeing that he still loved to play in the sand.

On Monday we celebrated Adam's 13th Birthday.  He had thought we were staying in a hotel, so he kept telling me that we could have birthday "glop." That is marshmallows, pretzels, and other things that are thrown in a bag to make a sort of trail mix.  Then he found out that we had a house.  He decided on Chocolate cake, with Chocolate icing, and Chocolate chips.  He also wanted Oreos, we left them on the side (as not everyone loves Oreos, and it already had a lot of chocolate!) 

I got a quick snap shot of my 13 year old!

One day we got a paddle board and we all had turns on it.

Adam gave the experience a thumbs up!

I tend to err on the side of caution.  If I were a flavor of  ice cream I would be vanilla--not overly exciting.  However every now and then you need some sprinkles on that vanilla ice cream.  I got my sprinkles and got on that board.

Austin was able to stand.  I don't know how!  But he did!

 And he had a great victory pose!

Mike got on the board too.  He went out way further than I was comfortable with.  It was really easy to get out and not realize how far you were.  But, he came back in safely, thank goodness!

Mom and Dad were at the beach.  We got a really cute picture of them.

On Tuesday, we had family pictures done.  For being taken by us, they are not too bad!

The boys.

Our family picture.

The whole Kiser family.

 A rare picture of just Mike and I.

My guys! 

On Friday, Carol was going deep sea fishing with Eamon.  She invited Austin to come along.

Austin eagerly got out of bed at an early hour to head out to the boat. 

He even caught a few fish!

Someone took a picture of the 3 on the boat.  Austin, Carol, and Eamon.

There was one day that Lana, Mom, Grace and I were out in the ocean.  We saw lots of fish popping on the water.  We saw dolphins out in the ocean, and thought that was really neat.  Before long, we saw a dolphin come within 10 ft of us to grab some breakfast.  The fish exploded out of the water and went swimming in all directions.  What an experience!

I didn't get too many pictures because I did not take my phone to the beach due to the sand and water.  I gathered a few from other people.  I hope these are enough to help the boys remember the wonderful time we had.

We spent a lot of time in the ocean, sand and at the pool.  In the evenings, we played a lot of games, and laughed a lot.  We had a fantastic week.  We all came home rested, relaxed, and ready to to sleep in our own beds again.