Last week,
Rylan, Jesse, and I headed to Gulf Shores, Alabama to stay at
The Beach Club for 3 nights. It was a short vacation but we had an absolute blast! Jesse counted every Waffle House we saw on the way down..however, he had never eaten at one. I knew there was one in Foley, AL..the town directly north of Gulf Shores. We stopped there to eat and it was the 16
th and last Waffle House we saw before we got to Gulf Shores.
This picture was taken at about 7 in the morning and we each only had about 2 hours of sleep throughout the night. A Waffle House stop was much needed!
We spent every day on the beach from about mid-morning (9:30
ish) to late afternoon (3:30
ish). We did nothing but relax and enjoy the sun, sand, and ocean. The second night we were there, we decided to go to the outlet mall for a bit..because I am in desperate need of some new clothes..and then we went out to dinner at the Gulf Island Grill.
You gotta love Jesse's glasses..this kid kills me sometimes!
The last day we were there, I got stung by a
JellyFish. Not a full bodied
JellyFish..just one little
tentacle got caught in my bathing suit top..it stung me on my chest and I tried to get it out of my top but it was attached somehow to my bathing suit top and flung down and stung me all the way down the center of my stomach to my belly button. YIKES did it ever hurt!! It scared the crap out of me so I splashed water on me until I got out of the water..screaming at Rylan to get out with me..I'm sure I looked like a fool. Jesse, in the mean time, was watching with much anticipation to see Rylan pee on me in public! I DON'T THINK SO!! Anways, I grabbed my beer and started dumping it down my chest..I'm sure that looked lovely to all the families around us too! After that was empty..I grabbed a beer can filled with frozen water and stuck it into my bathing suit top between my boobs..I gathered everything I could and took it to the room with me..with the frozen beer can still between my boobs. I'm sure people thought I was a freak holding a beer like that! :) I didn't care though! We'd heard to put either tooth paste or shaving cream on it..and we only packed a travel size tube of tooth paste..so I grabbed Rylan's shaving cream and started lathering it onto my chest and stomach. I'm sure it was a site to see!
This picture is a little foggy because of the humidity..but I'm sitting on the balcony with shaving cream all over me and Jesse is pretending to lick it off of me. Good thing I had a few too many drinks in my that day..or I'm sure the sting would have hurt a ton worse!
This was the last night we were in Gulf Shores. We had a great time and shared some good laughs. I must say that Jesse definitely brings out the youthfulness in Rylan and I! We love you Jesse!
We picked sweet corn and shucked it outside. We showed her how to shuck the corn and she did a few ears by herself. She pulled one piece at a time off of the husk. When she got to the silks and give it to Rylan and say 'yucky hairs' and he'd pull off the hairs and then she be so excited and yell 'CORN!' and put it in the bucket. Every time she shucked an ear, it was a surprise every time to see the corn inside.
Later in the afternoon, Rylan and I canned green beans. We started snapping them and August wanted to be right next to the both of us helping. So we'd snap off the ends and she'd snap them in half and throw them in the bowl.
It was too funny to watch her help us do everything..even with toys scattered all over the place..she'd rather be helping us shuck corn and snap green beans! You gotta love this girl...she's a one of a kind!
