The Bracketts': Destin

We took our 4th annual Brackett/Siesky family vacation to San Destin this past July. In the years past we have gone in either May or June, but due to my maternity leave and the craziness at Bryce's work we had to take the trip a little later. First Lesson?? Never take a vacation in July. Why? Well, the trip usually takes us between 11.5 - 12 hours ...this year it took a little over 15 hours!!! That is a LONG time for a 2 year old and 5 month old. However the Boys did AMAZING...until the VERY end...

Then we ALL felt like this!!!

However, we FINALLY arrived and the kids were soooo excited! Since it was so late, we ordered pizza in that night and saved our grocery trip for the morning. The kiddos were exhausted and it did not take long for them to all snuggle in together to watch a movie. Adorable.

We were a little anxious about the weather forecast for the week. It had apparently rained cats an dogs in Destin the previous two weeks and it was calling for rain the week we were there. However, we were extremely blessed with AMAZING weather. So what did we spend our time doing?

Pool!! The place we stay at has an amazing pool and the kids LOVE it. I think we got two full days in at the pool and a couple of evenings too.

Kolten was an absolute water bug. He LOVED it..so much that we might have talked daddy into building us a pool of our own someday soon.

Beck liked it too, but was not a huge fan of his float. He would much rather you hold him in the water or let him sit on the edge.

Just look at this hunka-hunka burning love!!!

Next Up? Daddy's favorite place 30A. If you have never been down 30A, you MUST do this at least once in your life. It is a little strip with several small towns. The most popular is Seaside, which we like, but our favorite is Rosemary Beach. We love to eat lunch at a little place called Wild Olives and go through the shops there. Bryce always makes me take random pictures of parts of the architecture he likes.

Kolten picked out this little elephant from one of the toy shops there and I just could not get over how cute he looked carrying it around by its trunk.

Let us not forget the food. Bryce and I had been doing really good at eating clean...then vacation happened. Kolten got to the point where he would order his own food and each order went like this.."I will have two chicken nuggets, two fries, and two sprites" the kid is crazy, he will talk to anyone who has ears!!

We got some cute pics outside of one of our regular resturants Louie, Louie. So good and a must try for anyone visiting Destin.

Real life right here people, real life.

The kids are too young for the beach everyday, but we like to at least try to get there once.

Kolten had a great time playing in the water and running from the waves.

He also helped daddy build a sand castle.

Honestly??? it was a little too hot and the babies were a little too young to stay out there very long and it just ends up being a lot of work for a little time. But at least we can say we went, right?

Where we stay is within walking distance of Baytown, it is this great little place with restaurants, shops and all kinds of fun things for the kids to do. We went over for fireworks one night and got our annual picture in the big chair.