Sandbridge Beach Day and Hatteras Beach Day Rewind

On Friday of last week Annaliese and I headed to Sandbridge for the day.  This was probably going to be our last Sandbridge Beach Day for the year so we wanted to take advantage of the beautiful weather.  We stayed over at the beach for over 4 hours.  We took a walk, looked for shells and tracks, built a castle, pretended to play air track, and did some of her floor/warm-up exercises from the gym.  Oh and we took a few pics too!  I also dug back in the picture archives for pics of Annaliese the first time she wore my old Strawberry Bathing Suit.  Back then it was a little big but this year it fit better.  Aunt Loretta bought me this suit when I was Annaliese's age because my mom was in love with strawberries.  It's been around a long time.   **WARNING: Picture overload

Before going over to the beach I had to snap a few pictures of Mom-Mom's beautiful flowers with my new camera lens.  (I had to get a new lens because mine broke.  The new one proves to be great so far!)

An 83 year age difference

Take time to smell the flowers

Dad-Dad age 86, Annaliese age 3, Mom-Mom age 86

Next we headed to my favorite place in the world...Sandbridge Beach

Our set-up

Getting ready for our shell walk

Shell hunting

Finding treasures from the sea

Even the broken ones are special

3 year olds find the beauty in each piece

Sea tracks

 

Dog tracks

Bird tracks

Annaliese tracks...

...from these cute, little feet

She LOVED making this

Peggy had to be in the picture too

She just stared at it for awhile

Annaliese pic

Mommy pic

Hatteras Beach 2011

Sandbridge Beach 2013

Hatteras 2011

 

Sandbridge 2013

Strawberry cutie age 1

Strawberry cutie age 3

Looking down the beach in 2011

Looking down the beach in 2013

Lovin life on the beach 2011

Lovin life on the beach 2013

Running through the water in 2011

Running through the water in 2013

Age 1

Age 3

Daddy wrote her name in the sand 2011

Annaliese wrote her own name in the sand 2013

Jumping exercise

Donkey Kick

 

 

 

Relaxing after the beach

Sunset off the back deck at Sandbridge 2013

Sunset off the front deck at Hatteras 2011

Annaliese and her Great Grandma...ending to a great day