Rockaway Weekend

We spent Friday through Monday at a timeshare on Rockaway Beach thanks to the lovely generosity of our good friends Jessica and Dane! The drive out was better than we expected. Akasha slept almost the entire way. We were probably only 15 minutes away when she started crying, but we decided to stop for a nursing session since it had been awhile. We got our stuff upstairs and took a little tour, only to find out... we were over the maximum occupancy in the room! I guess two little babies count the same as anybody else to the insurance folks.

We seriously thought we might have to turn around and head home for a minute there, but it turned out they had another room available, and Jessica and Dane used up a bit more of their time to give it to us. What awesome friends!

Here the squirts are the first night, looking out the window at the beach, or "beeee", as Olivia calls it.
They also did lots of jumping on the beds and in general wrestled and knocked each other down. She sure is a good match for him!

And some Akasha cuteness back in our room.

The next morning.... He looks so peaceful when he sleeps. :)

The view from our room!

Mama getting her artsy on hehe.
Friends from birth.
Sophia looks like she is wondering what the heck that monkey thing is.
Olivia pronounced this to have a booboo.
And here the boys are on the couch and home.... Oh wait, they are just doing the same thing we do at home.
Sophia is almost crawling!
We start them young around here! LOL, she looks like she is intently watching a screen, but it was just a random look.
"Stop interrupting my gaming with all those flashes lady!"
It was around this time Ron told me I needed a support group for all my picture taking. C'mon, kids eating watermelon are cute!

The dads an older monkeys finally made it down to the beeee. I followed a few minutes later and came upon this scene:
Our building as seen from the beach.
Busy boys. Dad is digging a deep hole in the background...
...to illustrate how he can get down to the water.
So we had a discussion about why this happens.

And here is Ron not knowing his own strength. He whacked this getting it off and actually cracked and broke it!

Then the offending foot inched in.
And here is Ron's "don't kick my castle" face.
I love this picture. A daddy's watchful eyes....
This would be Dane looking somewhat annoyed at Orion for continually stepping on his creations if I recall correctly haha. And notice little Olivia's feet propped up on Daddy.
Don't remember what this face was all about, but it sure is cute. :)
More busy boys.
Random heart shaped rock.
Olivia throwing rocks with the boys in the background.
Looking for her next victim.
Fling!
And some arm swinging thrown in for good measure.
Then she got bolder and decided to check out the water up close. Am I evil for thinking this is funny?



Back with the boys - a big project going on.
This would be Ron's annoyed face as he tells Orion not to mess their wall up.
Here comes the water! What will happen?
Too bad I suck and didn't get the follow up pictures.

But I did take this funny one of Akasha. She slept almost the whole time in the mei tei and is looking pretty groggy in this shot. This is what you get when mom just holds the camera out and points.
The next day was rainy, so we pretty much stayed inside and played games. Here is one more shot of Ms. Sohpia getting her crawl on.
The kids played alot of "doughdough" as Olivia calls Play Dough. She is so cute the way she is coming into her talking. "Orion" is one of her most recognizable words. Ron said to her several times, "I don't speak Olivia," and then Orion was saying it by the end of the trip. Crack up.

We also managed to get some time in the indoor pool both days. I didn't get a shot of it because there really wasn't much space to put anything down in the room. See, I don't need a support group after all! I didn't take hardly any pictures the whole third day. In fact, I wish I had taken the camera in the evening when we drove up the coast for dinner. We passed some gorgeous scenery I missed out on!

One last shot on Monday morning - captured on Ron's cell phone - visual proof that it is possible for the kids to be asleep at the same time while we are up....

The drive home went smoothly as well. Except Ron started getting sick and now seems to have a full blown cold. Dang, I hope I don't get it, and I hope we didn't give it to the Jensen clan either!