It's The Sun!!!! Pt. Pleasant Beach Day!

About a month ago our friend, Michelle, called and asked if we wanted to play hooky with them and join them for a beach day today (6/25). Little did we know when we talked about this day, that the ENTIRE month of June would be rainy and overcast so we hemmed and hawed all week long and made alternative plans to go to the Camden Aquarium.

But luck was on our side and today was the most perfect day! It was in the mid 80's, no humidity, light wind and blue skies! I cannot believe how beautiful it was considering it was ugly and cold yesterday and is supposed to be ugly and raining again.

Sofia, Michelle, and Charlotte
Sofia and Rob
Sofia is so funny, when you tell her you're taking her picture she leans into the person she's taking the picture with but she still won't look at the camera. What is it with my kids and not looking at the camera?!
Jackson, Charlotte, and Ella being made into mermaids/merman

Sofia was really concerned with the fact that it's not bikini season. She was afraid she wouldn't look good in her bikini. I told her she was crazy. I mean you don't get a body like this without working for it!
Oh, and notice the watershoes..Ella (born in San Diego) is a major beach girl. She runs right into the ocean and spends hours jumping in the waves. She gets knocked down and jumps right back up and goes in again. Sofia is not a natural beach girl. By the end of the day she was hanging out like an old pro but the only way we could get her to walk on the sand, was to put on her beach shoes....oy, what a look!

Here she is chatting on her blackberry. Don't be jealous of that body ladies, you can get it too...

We spent 4 hours on the beach! I was so surprised that Sofia lasted so long without a nap but she was having a blast. Around 3pm we decided to wrap up at the beach and hit the boardwalk.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for...dippin dots?
We rode a bunch of rides, of which I don't have a lot of pics of but I do have these,

Charlotte and Ella on the swings
Sofia enjoying the Nemo ride

We packed up and hit the road around 4pm and hit every type of traffic issue out there-construction, accident (x2), high school graduation + lots of cops on the road, but even with the long ride home, it was such a wonderful day and worth it!

A Brief/Goldstein Kind of Weekend...

We had a really nice weekend which was spent mostly with the Briefs and Goldsteins.

Friday night the Goldsteins (Rich, Erika, Harrison, Bennett, and Aydan) had us and the Briefs (Andy, Jessica, Jordana, and Sam) for an evening BBQ. I forgot my camera unfortunately, but Rich and Erika took some pics so hopefully I'll have some soon.

They have a beautiful yard and the kids had a blast on the swingset and trampoline. We dined on crab and steak while the kids enjoyed homemade mac n cheese and hotdogs. Erika and Rich are most certainly fabulous hosts. I still need to get her white wine sangria and coleslaw (but not really coleslaw) recipes. Yum!

Last Saturday we were supposed to go to the beach with the Briefs but it rained all day so we had planned to go this Saturday. Rich and Harrison were going fishing, but Erika, Bennett and Aydan joined us.

We went do to the Conover Pavillion Beach Club in Deal, NJ. It was so nice because it had a little boardwalk where you could by food and ice cream and a swingset which the girls loved.

Enough talking, here are some pics.

Sammy and Sofia getting ready to go to the beach-yummy thighs!

The girls (Aydan, Ella, and Jordy) spot the beach!

I decided to do something fun with Ella's hair to keep it out of her face while running around. It's kind of fun, right?

Jordy and Ella loved being in the swings with their Daddys. Ricardo and Andy were multi-tasking and playing football with Bennett while swinging.

Bennett, Future Heisman Trophy Winner?

Ella, always the dare-devil, spent the majority of time on the rocks with Ricardo looking for crabs.

Sofia and mommy

Sofia had a blast in her little pool. She spent at least 2 hours just sitting and playing in it.

Sammy was so tired he just passed out in Jessica's arm. So sweet.

The girls all had ice cream on the boardwalk-CHEERS!

This is the closest we got at a picture of the girls together.

It was a great day. Both girls passed out on the car ride home for a bit, which was nice, espcially since Ella has totally given up her naps. She now does "quiet time" in her room. Well, maybe quiet time for an elephant. She basically runs back and forth from her dollhouse to her chair to her bed to her dollhouse, but at least it gives me a little break from hearing, "what's that? What's that?" for an hour.

We just hung out on Sunday and now I have a sinus infection...hopefully it will be better by Thursday because that Sofia's 1st birthday!!!!