BB afternoon

Washington is dealing with a "heat wave" this weekend, and I love it.  After a really sweaty run for me early, and free fro-yo for the other three at a grand opening of our favorite self serve frozen yogurt place we had to figure out what to do with our day.  We stopped to see Grandma and all the wonderful best friends she had over visiting for a luncheon. We ended up out at Birch Bay, in a quiet little spot in the hot sand.  I just happened to have bathing suits for the kids in the car, so they were able to splash in the bay, and catch crabs with Clay.  I had long capri pants on, so I mostly laid on the blanket basking in the sun.  

Elliot came and spent some time with me, I showed him what I had been up to and he tried.  I built a little family of rock towers and Elliot had fun balancing the rocks for his own tower. 

 He then spent the rest of his time walking the logs and climbing around, spying all sorts of treasures- I went along and we found lots of smooth rocks, pretty flowers, shells and cool looking logs. I think falling in the water on the barnacles resulting in barnacle shaped cuts on his knee made him appreciate the sand more.

 After wading down the beach and making some new friends and trading stories on the crabs they had caught Gabby came back to the blanket.  The girl is either battling a long cold or has allergies, I thought I had a great picture of her running up out of the water... zoom in and see two nostrils dripping so much snot and a sad look on her face.  Building a sand castle and drying off cheered her up.

 Clay skipped some rocks.

 G and I tried to get a picture together, but I guess I was zoomed in to far.

We finished off the evening with a BBQ at  Molly's, the kids all playing and the 4 adults talking.  What a great day, here's hoping for many more summer days like this in our future.