Beach Combo - Friends and Baseball

July 3rd kicked off with some seeing some friends from home at the beach.  Such a nice surprise!

Tucker and his family were in town for his twin sister's dance competition.  Bonus!

We assumed a storm was blowing in because the waves were enormous!  These kids said it was perfect for boogie boarding, though.

Fierce!

Thank goodness the little kids were happy playing on higher ground.

While they were on break from jumping the waves, Maddie caught the tiniest crab ever.

I enjoyed visiting with Tara...

Jared and Cayce caught up as well...

and Cami and Nash had a little seaside date. 
Seeing one of your boyfriends at the beach--priceless!

After a few hours, we said goodbye to the Bartons.  Jackson had to get to his baseball games and Brently was starting her dance competition.

The girls and I decided to stay at that beach that afternoon.  It was so pretty and we knew there would be plenty more days of baseball.

The girls were thrilled!

This little lady even took a short ocean-side siesta.  

A nice breeze, seagulls in the air...

Pretty much a perfect afternoon.

And this little mermaid even made an appearance, too!

The boys kicked things off with a bang as well!

Jackson batted lead-off and got the Eagles rolling.

Go #7!
The Eagles beat the Texas Bandits and Texas Energy pretty handily.  We traveled all the way to Gulf Shores and out of 37 teams, got matched up against two other teams from Texas!