And the Cousins Came

My dad arrived this morning with Ben and Carly.  They weren't in the house long before we headed to the beach ... inner tubes in hand.

For the rest of the week we saw a lot of this ... inner tubes in the water.  Pretend you can hear the screams ... because there was a lot of that going on too!

I also saw a lot of this the rest of the week ... Carly dragging Torrey back out to the waves.  Carly was in heaven ... TWO big girls to hang out with.  I should have gotten pictures of her straightening her hair beside the big girls.  Heaven.

Dean rode the waves with the girls.  There was a lot of seaweed and Ben was not a fan.  At all.  Dean was either riding the waves, keeping watch to keep boys away from the girls or standing strategically so that the girls could watch the boys without being too obvious.  He grew many gray hairs this week!

The seaweed drove Ben to the sand.  He didn't seem to mind.  Occasionally he would go in ... but he never stayed in for long.  He became quite the hole digger.  Ben made it seem like fun ... the girls always joined him ... but not for long!

Our beach set up changed a little bit with my dad's arrival ... actually, we only looked like this one day.  My dad quickly learned that only Dean and I sat on the chairs and he claimed one for himself (much easier than dragging chairs and umbrellas to the beach!)

Ben and his hole ... finished just in time for lunch!  Which means we will be back to the beach soon ... and then off to the pool.  Got to love a week at the beach!