Destin 10-12

I didn't take any pictures during the day on Friday. We woke up and planned on Daddy taking the girls to a go-cart track (even though we OWN a go-cart... I don't get it, either) and me taking Nathan to a scrapbook clearance store. Well, the go-cart place was closed, and Carden wanted to go shopping for her scrapbook, so we all ended up there. Luckily, we needed a few things from Wal-Mart, and it was in the same shopping center, so Nate headed over there. I stayed within my budget, so he wouldn't have complained to me about money, but he would have been very impatient waiting for me to go through the store! :) We came home and took naps and/or played in the pool, and then in the late afternoon went to the beach one last time. It was calm again, and Emma had a blast snorkeling for shells. I left Nathan with Nate and the girls and I walked down the beach a ways and just swam and looked for shells. I didn't have goggles, and Carden was being silly, but Emma was down to business. I wish I had video of her, it was the cutest thing to see her swimming, spot something, and dive for it. You'd see her cute bum (I think she has the cutest bum in the whole world, and I am dead serious in saying that) pop up and her legs squirm around trying to get herself down to the sea floor, all the while bobbing up and down on the waves. We got a pretty good collection, though most of it was broken. She even captured some seaweed for Carden. Then, we hurried up and showered for family pictures. Misty was our photographer, along with Jared, Debbie, and Cari's photographer, and she did a great job despite my mumbling husband! All the pictures below are from the photo shoot!


Gosh, I have cute kids!!! (Haha)


Looking at us, you wonder how they got so cute!


What fun shots of some of the cousins!

Too bad my eyes are closed, that would have been a great picture!

Misty gave the camera back so she could shoot some of Jared and Debbie, and the unsympathetic mother in me came out. But, you gotta admit that is a cute shot of Nathan!

I played around with some silhouette shots...

And then Emma and Nathan got soaked. Nathan because he fell right as a wave came up (that was the crying picture above) and Emma because she's Emma and can't resist the water. I looked out at one point, and she was up to her armpits! So, we headed back home, but on the way, Emma wanted to show me how she could draw an elephant (and it was pretty good). Then, Carden wanted to play tic-tac-toe in the sand, and then they had a competition to see who could get the sand the smoothest. Pregnant and all, I laid down on my belly with the sun behind me instead of in front of me, and these are what I got:

The girls were being so funny, they'd say "Now a silly one!" "Now a mad one!" "Now a scared one!" I did get some normal ones, and I am all about the silly ones if it makes them happy to take a smiling one!

As you can see, everyone thought it was the perfect night to take pictures on the beach, there were probably about ten or so other groups out there smiling for a camera!

The rest of the night was spent packing and cleaning for our departure in the morning.