Florida - Beach Olympics

                       We had high hopes for Thursday, but woke up to double red flags again.  

Oh well!  We can still play at the beach!

The girls stayed busy playing in the sand...

doing some cartwheels and other tricks.

Cami made more sand cupcakes...

and Jackson played with his beach bud, Brayden.

 Jackson and Lila played ball with their daddy.

The sun peeked it's head out every now and then, just long enough for us to think that it was going to stay!

We talked it over and decided that it was finally time to have the Beach Olympics.  Jackson had been literally begging for it all day long--I think the real Olympics inspired him to compete...as if he wasn't already competitive enough:)

We had the Sharks vs. Pirates.  Argh!

Baby Matthew was all smiles watching his sisters compete against one another.

Each family came up with one event.  The bean bag toss into crab nets was our first event.  

Go Jackson!

The Crab Walk was next--it was close, but the Pirates won that one, too.

Cameron had finally been won over by the sand--so much so that she wanted nothing more than to keep playing during the games:)

The Sand Bucket Relay was the third event.

Go Finley!  The Pirates won that one, too!

Water Gun Relay was our next event.  And it was worth double points.

Although the pirates tried hard, they lost this event. 

The score was 3-2 going into the Wheelbarrow Race.  The stakes were high!  It was close, but the Pirates beat the Sharks.

All ten kids tried their best, though, and we were proud of them!  

The Pirates were pumped to take home their trophies, though.  

We all went to dinner together that night at Hurricane's--yummy food and more fun with our friends.  We sat on the covered patio and watched the USA women gymnasts win big once again.  Go USA!!!