Our Last Week at the Beach House

WARNING! Extreme photo overload - I couldn't pick any less!

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I am sitting outside on the balcony for one last time looking out over the beautiful ocean and the starting sunset, listening to the waves break and crash over the rocks, and my heart is so full and happy tonight.

And this like that our beautiful beach vacation came to an end.  We had the most beautiful thirteen days at the beach, and the sweet memories we have made will be cherished and kept in a memory box forever.

This morning I kissed my beloved grandparents good-bye, and I held it together until I had to kiss my grandfather, and then my heart broke a little, it might be the last time I see him again, and all the beautiful childhood memories I have with him is so dear to my heart.  I have a couple of tears running down my cheeks right now, I love you oupa!!

Our last week at the beach surely delivered with the most adventures and the most awesome discoveries, from finding amazing sea shells, to very amazing animal live. We had a couple of days of extreme low tide, and we were able to walk into the ocean and explore on the rocks a lot further in then usual, and the things that we found was mind blowing.  I grew up coming to beach house a couple of times a year, so most of the things we see on the beach is nothing new to me, it still way cool, but nothing new.  This vacation I added a few things that I have never seen alive, and in nature.  We found a needle fish, a box fish, a teeny tiny baby octopus, and some beautiful sea shells, in between a bunch of other things.

I love the fact that Ian and Hayleigh grew to love the beach, and they have become quiet comfortable with the beach and everything it has to offer.  I am proud of all the explorations and the discoveries that they made all on their own, and all the growth that has taken place.  Hayleigh is the treasure finders, and the shell seeker, while Ian is the water diver, and the sand digger.  They are so different from each other, but yet they are best friends, and I am so happy about that.  Watching them comfort each other, and love each other is sometimes more than my heart can take.

I loved this time with Nate and the kids, being unplugged from the internet, besides for downloading pictures onto my computer and taking the time to write blogs on my usual days, we had nothing else.  It was so refreshing, like a detox, and I feel great, I feel renewed and refreshed, and I think I need to have more unplugged time in my life.

Family time is always important to me, and this vacation I realized how much the internet robs me from time with Nate and the kids.  I love long days on the beach, even when it results into two very cranky and tired toddlers, I am in love with this life of mine, and all the beautiful things wrapped in it.

The time with my parents have been such a blessing to me, and watching them with the kids, playing and exploring on the beach, made me smile, and a lot of it reminded me of my childhood with them, and all the fun things they did with my brother and I.  I sure hope that the distance will never come and terrorize the relationship that they have build with the kids, and that the kids will always clean to the beautiful memories, and times they had together.  I will say it again, watching my parents with my kids, and so far their only grandchildren, does something beautiful to my mama heart, something I have no words to explain and describe. Besides it is beautiful.

We are all packed, and read to leave in the morning to head back to my parent’s house before we fly back to Germany in a few days, thinking about our departure makes me want to bawl my eyes out, but all good things have to come to an end, so that we can preserve the beauty in it and not overkill it.

Good –bye beach house, and thank you for all the new memories that we created in your magnificent environment, I will forever cherish all my vacations here.  I love you!