Just another day in the life of...

Since Andrew's folks were visiting friends today, and the weather was so incredibly nice, we decided to drive out to one of our favorite haunts: Crescent Beach. We made a quick stop at Choices Market for some lunch and amended our plan to include a picnic at the Historic Stewart Farm. The kids loved the orchard and had great fun climbing this beautiful little tree:






Elisabeth loved having the food so close to her fingertips!





So anyway, back to the picnic. I got a turkey sandwich on fresh ciabbatta with cranberry mayo and brie. OMIWORD YUM!



The only trouble with picnicking here was trying to keep the kids at the picnic table...






Andrew teaching Davey how to be an airplane:

Hmn...tink was eating watermelon and I wanted to save her dress for more pictures after lunch....





oooooooh

Awwwwww, it almost looks like they're holding hands!

Oh yes. Now that Tink has mastered walking, running and climbing stairs, she thought she'd turn her attention to climbing rocks. Literally for 20 minutes it was up one, down, up the next...



Doesn't this make you wish you had a nice cup of tea, a good book and a few hours to yourself?

davey taught Tink to airplane...off they go!!







Okay, we're done with the farmhouse. We headed to the beach. We finally found a spot (surprise! It was crowded today! Gracious, even Andrew's parents were there today!)

Tinky loves to help her daddy. I just know they're going to build some sweet castles. Maybe even like the ones we saw in Harrison on Thursday.







What we didn't realise is that the tide was RAPIDLY on it's way in. We tried two different castles, but they both got washed away.

Here the kids are frantically trying to reinforce one of them.

And very upset that it got destroyed.

Very upset.

Luckily joy comes in the morning....or at least by the time we reach the vehicle. But holey moley, check out that dirty face! You're riding home in the trunk kid!

heh heh.