Ocean City Vacation

This past weekend we took the kids on their first beach vacation to Ocean City.  They had so much fun!  We decided to get the most time out of our trip by leaving at 2:30 in the morning.  I just KNEW the kids would go right back to sleep in the car.  Wrong!  Jacob passed right out but the girls were wide awake for the whole trip.  Alexis kept saying "I go to the beach!" and Leah was just happy we were all in the car.  About 30 minutes outside of Ocean City, the skies opened up and it started pouring.  We grabbed breakfast at McDs and the kids ate while we located the condo we were staying in.  Jesse unpacked (in the rain) while the kids and I checked out our vacation home (side bar--at one point Jacob got upset and said he didn't get to bring all his toys to the new house!  I had to tell him we weren't living there forever, just for the weekend!)

After everyone taking a much needed nap, we headed out (in the POURING rain) to find lunch.  We ended up at Grotto's and were so excited to introduce the kids to their yummy pizza. 

Jacob was ready for pizza!

The girls insist on using big girl cups now!

On the way back from lunch it stopped raining so we put on bathing suits and hit the beach!  It was a bit windy but the kids had a BLAST!   After the beach, we cleaned up and headed to the boardwalk.  The kids were so entertained by the sights and sounds.  It was a beautiful night, the weather ended up being amazing all weekend.  After eating corndogs--yumm, the girls had another first- RIDES!

First ride-boats

This kid talked about the motorcycles for days!

Day 2 was spent at the beach again.  Jacob hammed it up for the scopes girl, the girls weren't feeling it.  We did get a decent family picture, the only one of all 5 of us from the weekend!  The girls loved the waves and kept asking daddy to take them out 'simming'.  When you lowered them into the water, they would kick their little legs like they were actually going to swim away.

After the beach, we went back to the condo for the girls to nap and the boys went to play mini golf and ride go carts.  When they were done and the girls were rested, we went to Phillips for dinner.  Kids 4 and under eat free--score!!  Jesse and I ate kind crab legs like there were going out of style-LOL.  The kids stuffed their faces (with dessert).  After dinner we headed to Rehoboth Beach to check out the boardwalk there and ride more rides!  The kids were rockin long after their bedtimes (love that my kids can hang so late!!)

For our third and final day we had breakfast and then, of course, went back to the beach!!  We definitely have some beach bums on our hands!  They couldn't get enough of digging holes by the water's edge and waiting for the waves to make a puddle to jump in.  The girls made friends with a nearby 'baby' (she was only 18 months, but bigger than they are!).  The kept giving her toys and 'helping' her stand up.

Finally, it was time to get cleaned up, pack up and head home.  The girls slept almost the whole way home.  We had such a great time and made some awesome memories.  I can't wait to take them back!