so - how many more days of summer!?

beach vaca 2013

we left home at 4:45 pm and trucked into...

 and....

 where lo and behold
not a single room at the inn within three states!!!!

no joke

not a single room!!!!!
(i slept through alabama so no pic - so sorry!)

so we kept on truckin and made it into florida by 5 am!!!

 we made it!!!!!!!

 we spent everyday at the beach...

 and every day in the pool...

 our special excursion this year
was a pontoon boat out to crab island...

 we celebrated three birthdays

starting with g.$

it's a family "thing" to get a pie in the face at thirteen...

 aves bday...

 and kings who turned a whopping three!!!

 we ate out...

 played games....

 and of course went to wmart!!!

 here's the big fam.....

 and here's our family....

 then it was time to get back on the road....

 and home to texas!!!