Beach Bums

Here is a photo collection of our vacation at Virginia Beach. We rented a big beach house with 5 other families. It's so beautiful out there! We love the beach. Here is Felix fishing for the first time. It lasted about 5 minutes.

Rex preferred throwing grass into the water to fishing.

At the beach.

We were close to a military base, so we saw many, many fighter jets flying overhead which is what Rex is checking out here.

Saying cheese.

Felix and Scott in their first ever 3D Imax film..."Sharks". Felix took off his glasses anytime the sharks came on screen. He said he didn't want them in there with him. He liked the turtle and fishes, though.

Scott and Felix with friends in the canoe. This was in the backyard of the beach house.

Peanut butter and Jelly "sand"wiches.

Felix and Margie catching a wave on the boogie board. Freezing water, but soooo much fun!

Let's go fly a kite.

The weather was glorious and the beach was so lovely that Scott said he wanted to be buried here.

There was a local on the beach digging for crabs in the sand for his grandkids. He was nice enough to let us play with one (see bucket). It reminds us of one of our favorite books, "Billy's Bucket".

Felix's favorite thing was splashing in the big waves. Every day he asked to do specifically that.

Scott and Felix looking for sea shells.

Rex was having a major teething episode for much of the trip. This was the face he mostly wore.

Photo protege

Apparently when Riley has the camera pointed in anyone's direction, they feel the need to pull a face.  An interesting phenomenon that deserves a national study.  You can see that despite her lack of training, she actually has a similar photo style to mine.  Should she be flattered or should I be frightened?  Either way, she came up with some fun--and incriminating--pix from the weekend.  

Enjoy.

KJ

Random incriminating photos from the blessing

Here are a few pictures from this weekend's blessing of Chucky.  I have a ton more pix but this is a good start. You notice that the trampoline is a large gathering spot at Todd's. Other than the "trampoline/shin" incident there were no other injuries to report.  I am going to post some pictures Riley took during the weekend in a separate post.  Classic pictures. Hope everyone's well.

KJ

Just a warning....there is a picture that involves nudity (No, it's not Todd show off the "Twin Peaks").  Screen accordingly.

Charlotte's Blessing and more...

Charlotte's blessing went well on Sunday. We avoided any near drops (Riley's Blessing) and it was great to have everyone here for the weekend. I once again asked Keith to post pictures, but here are a few inferior pics in the meantime.

Terrible Twos

Macie turned two yesterday and automatically turned into a deamon. It was a little too ironic that she was a sweet little princess on Friday, then the spawn of Satan on Saturday (her birthday). These pictures are from the party we had at Valerie's parents yesterday. Macie just happens to share a birthday with Grandpa Madsen. Be impressed by the Barbie cake that Valerie slaved over, too.

Crazy Boyz

This is Felix sliding down his makeshift fireman's pole at the park.

Rex put on his fireman's hat and was making his best fire siren sounds.
Rex chugging toothpaste while reading a book in the buff.

I just jumped on the blog for the first time in a long time and found an array of new photos and stories, so I thought we should contribute something new, too. Here are the boys in action.