Twice in one summer?! Beach, please...
Galveston (more specifically Surfside) holds a special place in my childhood memories.
My Mom's side of the family would rent a house every summer for a week. My Grandparents would get there first and get a few days of peace and quiet before my Mom and her 5 siblings rolled in with their kids and spouses.
I feel so lucky that I got to spend time every summer going to the beach and playing with my cousins. The gulf beach really was beautiful back in the day. I never saw a "real beach" (what people believe to be) until I was in college, so maybe it's all perspective...but they used to have shells and sand dollars, and not mounds of seaweed at Surfside. It must have been the hurricanes, or moon and tides, or global warming, or my childhood bangs that changed the physical appearance of the same beach today that people say, "eww, gross. You're going to the gulf? How ugly is that beach?"
I can still see how beautiful it is.
It was crazy and it was fun. As of my mid twenties, we no longer organize these trips. My Grandparents are too old to make the trip, and the rest of us are too unorganized with the influx of grandchildren to coordinate all of our schedules.
So I tried to organize a small trip this past weekend and re-live some of the magic.
I might have waited too long to book a house, and run out of good ideas of how to make the trip happen after booking the house, but it was fun to see friends and spend my last weekend of summer at the ocean. V also got to join us which made it our first family beach trip.
There were a lot of naked toddlers running around.
Alex still loves the sand and surf and could have spent hours sitting in one place, letting the sandy mud run through his fingers.
Since V was not feeling the water (he kept asking me if we should be concerned about a tsunami) he got to hold babies. This is one of the twins our friends have. I can't even show you the other one because you would die from double cuteness overload. I can't be responsible for that.
The next pictures are too dark because we sat in front of the light, but I was happy we even got them...
Next year, we'll be more organized sooner and need more people. My goal is to rent and fill the houses that are three stories, 10 bedrooms, and hold like 35 people.
End of summer is near.
My Mom's side of the family would rent a house every summer for a week. My Grandparents would get there first and get a few days of peace and quiet before my Mom and her 5 siblings rolled in with their kids and spouses.
I feel so lucky that I got to spend time every summer going to the beach and playing with my cousins. The gulf beach really was beautiful back in the day. I never saw a "real beach" (what people believe to be) until I was in college, so maybe it's all perspective...but they used to have shells and sand dollars, and not mounds of seaweed at Surfside. It must have been the hurricanes, or moon and tides, or global warming, or my childhood bangs that changed the physical appearance of the same beach today that people say, "eww, gross. You're going to the gulf? How ugly is that beach?"
I can still see how beautiful it is.
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| My blonde, blonde cousins and brother... |
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| Me and my brother |
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| My Mom didn't want me to post a picture of her from Galveston this summer...so here's her skinny picture (but she does have a perm...) |
It was crazy and it was fun. As of my mid twenties, we no longer organize these trips. My Grandparents are too old to make the trip, and the rest of us are too unorganized with the influx of grandchildren to coordinate all of our schedules.
So I tried to organize a small trip this past weekend and re-live some of the magic.
I might have waited too long to book a house, and run out of good ideas of how to make the trip happen after booking the house, but it was fun to see friends and spend my last weekend of summer at the ocean. V also got to join us which made it our first family beach trip.
There were a lot of naked toddlers running around.
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| music video rain shot |
Alex still loves the sand and surf and could have spent hours sitting in one place, letting the sandy mud run through his fingers.
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| v engineered the filling of our tide pool by way of a side tunnel |
Since V was not feeling the water (he kept asking me if we should be concerned about a tsunami) he got to hold babies. This is one of the twins our friends have. I can't even show you the other one because you would die from double cuteness overload. I can't be responsible for that.
The next pictures are too dark because we sat in front of the light, but I was happy we even got them...
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| Alex was 2 hours past nap time... |
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| jazz hands |
Next year, we'll be more organized sooner and need more people. My goal is to rent and fill the houses that are three stories, 10 bedrooms, and hold like 35 people.
End of summer is near.
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