Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Family Vacation 2019: St. Augustine, FL

This year we traveled to St. Augustine, Florida (the oldest city in the US!) for our family vacation! The Winiarski's joined us and we had a blast sharing a condo right on the beach! Here are some snapshots of our week:


The kids loved playing in the tide pools! They splashed around and looked for little fish and crabs.


(Red marks on Max's face are from his goggles... not an injury.)



Early morning pile on Steve's lap! Sleepy faces and pj's for all.



One morning Max and I went down to the beach (just the two of us!) to play in the sand while the Dad's went on a run and Kirsten and the girls were getting ready for the day. We had a blast!


Learning a new game!



With help from the Dad's, the kids built an "aquarium" that they decorated and collected fish.



JUMP!!



Blast off with the Dad's!


Check out Natalia's face! This girl is fearless and LOVES the water.


We walked around downtown St. Augustine one afternoon to look at historic buildings. Many of the churches and Flagler College were open to the public (for free!). It was kind of dark inside, but we snapped this photo of a neat rotunda at Flagler College.


"Hey Mom! Take a picture of me in jail!"  (This was actually the entrance gates to Flagler College and not a jail. Haha)



Random cannons all over town!



Popsicle time!


Super-sand Man!


Max and Ben loved body surfing all week!




There was an awesome playground in downtown St. Augustine. Probably the biggest I've ever seen!


Max and Saskia wanted to take a "crazy face" picture. Natalia's reaction in this photo cracks me up!


Sunrise on the porch of our condo!


Max was really hot and tired toward the end of our walk around St. Augustine and grabbed the nearest hand he could find. Turned out to be Steve! Haha


On a ferry ride to Fort Matanzas!




Max completed some activities and earned a Junior Ranger badge!



We were all playing a guessing game and Max and Saskia sat together on the ottoman and Max had his arm around Saskia! So funny.


(For the record, the woman bending over in the background of this photo is not nude. Haha!)


Building a mega drip castle with the kiddos!


Family photos after dinner out on our last night!




Group photo at Fort Matanzas! (It was really hot and really humid!)


The kids decided to "meditate" while we were out to dinner on our last night. Let's just say it wasn't all that relaxing or serene of a mediation session. ;-)




Goodbye hugs after a fun week together!




Monday, June 3, 2019

May 2019

Here's a "photo dump" of all our non-graduation and non-vacation adventures in the month of May! (Vacation photos coming soon)

All signed up for the summer reading program at the library!


Out to breakfast for Mother's Day!


Max put his sunglasses on his hat and thought it looked cool, so he asked me to take his picture. :-)


Typical weekend mode!


Family fun at the park!



Spring festival at school! The upper elementary kids had a face painting station and Max chose a rocket ship!


Learning to make an origami frog


Last baseball game of the season!


Super proud of getting a game ball!