Wednesday, July 28, 2010

July 4th Vacation in Panama City Beach

We had a such a great time on our vacation to PCB...with 8 adults and 7 kids there's never a dull moment!

We got over there late Thursday evening, and Chase headed straight for the Tractor Tippin' game! Here he is playing it w/ McKenna and Brennan.
Cole was a little shy at first, but quickly warmed up to everyone!
Friday, we headed for the beach first thing in the morning. Alyssa enjoyed playing with Cole and was a huge help in keeping him entertained the whole weekend!
McKenna caught a little fish and put him in this bucket. Cole was so enthralled by it and stared at it all day!
Here's McKenna and Cole...she kept making sure that he wasn't going to dump the fish out and let it get away!!
Nick, Brennan and Chase were playing football in the sand
Dad was enjoying playing with the kids in the waves. The waves were huge that day so we weren't allowed to go out very far b/c of the currents.
Not a great pic, but one of the only ones I have of just Chase and I
The beautiful view from our balcony. Dad and Lisa rented a condo on the beach for all of us kids to stay at! Chase, Braden and Mady slept at the beach house w/ them and the rest of us stayed at the condo. It was so nice to sit out on the balcony and enjoy the sound of the waves (for some of us...others were a bit scared b/c we were up pretty high)!
Here's a few shots of us on the balcony...Me, Alyssa and McKenna
Me and Lisa
Me, Nick and Cole
We went over to Dad and Lisa's beach house for dinner and then walked down to the doc (and took more pics of course!)
Pop Pop, GiGi and Cole
Alyssa, Brennan, me, and McKenna
Lisa, Dad and me
Conte Family shot
The kids wanted to go in the pool before they went to bed. Lisa was throwing the football in for them as they jumped off the side of the pool and they were having a blast! Here's Chase, Brennan and Braden (would be a great pic if Chase didn't have that toy in his mouth).
Chase and Pop Pop
We headed back to the beach again the next day and again on the 4th! Cole kept talking about the "big waves" so I took him in the water (it was much more calm this day)!! He was loving every second of it.

The beautiful beach...no oil in sight!
Crazy kids in the pool!
Such a cute little guy
Nick and the boys
We had family photos taken on the beach that night. Once we get the CD from the photographer, I will be sure to share them on the blog. Some of them turned out really good. Here are a few that my sister took while we were out there.




We went back to the beach house and watched fireworks from the doc. We were all worn out and ready for bed by the time they ended!
We had to head home on Monday, but we decided to spend a little time at the pool before we left. Nick was throwing the kids in the pool
Chase was relaxing on the raft
All Cole wanted to do was jump in
Then we started to play Chicken Fight! Oh my, I had forgotten how crazy that game could be!
David and I look like are in some serious pain! McKenna and Braden are totally oblivious to this and look like they are having a blast!!
So, there's our vacation in pictures. We really enjoyed spending time w/ everyone. It had been a long time since all of us were together. Of course, it was way too short and went by way too fast, but at least we were all able to go. We look forward to doing it again next year!!

Next up is Chase's week in Delaware. He had a BLAST spending time with everyone up there! I will have to blog that from home b/c the pics are saved on my computer there!

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