Beach Again!




Last week we were invited to join our friends for a day at the beach! My mom's friend Trina had a daughter, Lyndsey, not long after I was born. So Lyndsey and I have been friends her entire life! Lyndsey also just had a daughter three weeks after I had Eden! Now our girls can be friends for life! Trina continued to have four other kids, while my mom decided to stop with Chad! So Trina; her three daughters: Lyndsey, Dakota, and Savannah; Lyndsey's daughter: Addyson; and me and my two kids all went to the beach! Ahhh, what fun...even if the wind did carry us away!

Jude loved Savannah helping him build a sand castle!


He was one happy boy!


Eden had trouble keeping her eyes open! I don't think she enjoyed the sand or the sun screen!


Lyndsey and Addyson, my two sweet friends!

Addy is so cool!


Friends for life!
(I will have to dig up old pictures of me and Lyndsey because our moms said seeing our girls together looks just like mini versions of us)



Eden sporting her new swimsuit and hat!


And this sums up how we all felt at the end of the day: TIRED!



I think I may wait to take Eden back to the beach until she is able to sit up on her own! But we still had a wonderful day filled with great conversations and new memories together!

Thank you so much Lyndsey for inviting us to tag along!




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