Fun In the Sun

We had a great weekend in Navarre with Sara, Mike and Liam.  We left Friday afternoon and came back yesterday.  We hit the beach Saturday and Monday but Liam's still too small to really get in the water and enjoy it, so Sunday evening as it was cooling down, we took him to the Sound side of the island where it's more like a lake and he seemed to enjoy himself better there.  Mike took him out in a little jet ski float and he had a pretty good time getting pulled around in that.

The beach was really great.  The surf was a little rough yesterday, but it wasn't terrible.  We managed to keep from getting sunburnt mainly thanks to Sara's SPF 85 baby sun block she had.  I think I might actually be whiter now than when we left.

One thing Liam did eventually start enjoying on the beach was playing in the sand.  He has a little bucket that looks like a castle tower when you flip it upside down, so we started stacking those up for him.  He seemed to enjoy playing Godzilla and smashing the little castles.  We also built "Ft. Liam" right against the water.  Basically just piling up sand into a semicircle wall around him.  Every now and then a wave would make it around the wall and fill the hole with water.  He got a pretty good kick out of that.

On Sunday, we decided that even though we were at the beach, we would go to church and after it was over we were glad we did.  We went to First Baptist Church Navarre and they had a wonderful and powerful Memorial Day service.  A large part of their attendance is Air Force personnel and you could almost feel the reverence they held for the fallen.

So all in all, a really great weekend.  With so much left to do before Harrison arrives, it may be the last chance we have to really do anything, so we were both glad to have the opportunity.  The only thing that really stinks is that I have to go to work this morning and now that school is out, DeAnne just gets to get up whenever she wants to.  Of course, I wouldn't be a teacher for all the money in the world either, so I guess she's earned it.

--Paul