Wednesday, June 29, 2011

First Family Vacation

We went to Panama City Beach for our first family vacation (June 17-22).  It was so nice to get away and enjoy time with just the 3 of us! 

 Our first day there (Saturday) we went to Seaside for lunch, ate at the Taco Bar, shopped a bit, then headed to Destin for more shopping at the outlets and dinner at McGuires (John's favorite restaurant at the beach).  We always take a picture kissing the moose and kept the tradition going with Brady!  After dinner, we stopped at Shakes to get a frozen custard!  I make John stop there everytime we go to Destin!

On Sunday, Father's Day, Brady got his first taste of the beach!  We went down for an hour in the morning and made sure to keep him under the shade the majority of the time!

How cute is my little shark? 
 
Toes in the sand for the first time!

 

Toes in the water for the first time!
After experiencing the ocean water, Brady and I sat under the umbrella and he slept in my arms!  It was so peaceful listening to the ocean waves and there was a nice breeze!  He slept great!

Later that day, we headed out to Pier Park!  They have a really nice Pier, so we went for a nice walk!  We also bought Brady a souvenir....an airbrushed onesie!  We then headed home and later that night went to Boatyard for dinner!


On Monday, we hung out at the beach house for most of the day.  It was SO hot, and we didn't want Brady out in the heat for a long time!  That night we headed back to Destin to eat dinner at Lousianna Lagniappe..yum!  Brady insisted on being held the entire time, so we ate in shifts!  We didn't mind and it made for a nice long dinner!

Dancing and drooling on the table!

Our waitress was so nice and offered to take our picture!

On Tuesday, we went back to the beach in the morning for an hour!  Brady took another nap on the beach while John and I took turns holding Brady and working on our tans!  For lunch we headed back to Seaside!  It's one of our favorite places at the beach!  It's such a cute little area where people ride bikes.  We ate lunch at Bud n' Alley's overlooking the ocean!  So pretty!  We then headed back to the beach house and hung out and played.  Before dinner we headed back to the beach to get a few more pictures of Brady.  We had dinner at Bayou Bills!  Brady wanted to be held the entire time, so we ate in shifts again! 

Brady slept at lunch!

The view from our table at lunch!
Brady's footprints in the sand!

Our family of 3!

I think he likes the beach!

Me with my sweet little man!

I am SO in love with my baby boy!

Daddy and his mini me!

This was right when we sat down for dinner!

On Wednesday we packed up and headed home.  We left around noon and drove to Enterprise to eat lunch at John's favorite place, Larrys!

We stopped to feed Brady and he tried to drive us home!

Hanging out in the backseat with Mommy!

Before we left on Wednesday, I stood in the beachhouse and thought about the next time we would be there and of course I cried.  Next time, Brady will be running around, he won't be a baby anymore needing to be held and carried around.  Last time we were there I had just found out 2 days before that I was pregnant, and this time we had Brady with us!

We had such a wonderful first family vacation and made so many great memories!

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