Wednesday, July 6, 2011

South Padre 2011

 Fun at the pool on our first night there
 baby sea turtles being released
 making sure the beach umbrella will be secure
 poor Kyler...the crabs just love his toes!  this is the second time at the beach that a little crab has pinched on to his toes and Shawn had to pry it off!
 coming to tell mom about it!
 they LOVE to dig in the sand!!!!!!
 Kyler, Austin and Kailee really liked boogie boarding!  Kyler rode the waves in a handful of times!
 We took lessons on how to build sandcastles!  I have to say we are all experts now!!  It was so much fun!!!  It was 3 of the 4 kids most favorite thing we did on vacation!  David was our instructor/teacher!  He was awesome...so much fun!!!!  Shawn is our Sand Castle Master...he is quite talented!!!
 David was super impressed with Shawn's...he couldn't believe that Shawn got it so tall on his first try without it falling over! 
Tara's finished castle
Austin's castle...not quite finished
 Ty's castle/village....the people watching said it looked like houses from the Flinstones!
 Shawn's masterpiece
 dinner at the Big Donkey...some of the best Mexican food ever!
 hangin' out getting ready to watch fireworks!
 the view from the balcony
 looking down to the pool from the balcony
 we spent one day at Schilitterbahn!  It was soooooo fun!  It was dead so we basically had the park to ourselves, it was awesome!!!
 sunrise
oops, he put his suit on backwards!
storm rolling in

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Val said...

Looks like so much fun!!! I about died laughing when I saw the pic with Kyler's suit on backwards...Quentin did the exact same thing on our vacation last week! We didn't notice till we had been swimming for a while!

Karen Scott Welker said...

What a great trip! I love the sand castles. Your lessons really paid off.