Beach Weeks

So apparently having two kids and busy summers means I no longer get around to blogging about our beach trips with Darrell's family. And I'm fairly certain 90% of the reason I made a point to blog about our trip in 2014 is that we took some pictures on that trip to use in our announcement of my pregnancy with Garrett. But, rest assured, even though posts haven't happened, the trips (and the fun!) still have. And I decided that instead of racking my brain and trying to recap this year's trip (or, even worse, last year's trip), I'm just going to share a photo from each year I've been there. Darrell's been going since he was a wee one (minus a few years where he was away at college or working at summer camp), but my first trip was in 2007--we haven't missed one since.

A couple of babies in 2007!

No picture together this year, but Darrell did manage to snap this very artistic picture of a seashell

In 2009 we had some fun taking engagement photos on the beach (nothing professional, of course--just Darrell's sister with his camera!)

We were apparently burned out from wedding photos at the beach in 2010, because we didn't take a single picture together. I had to steal this photo with us in the background from Darrell's sister (and let's be honest, our nephew is way cuter than we are anyway)

A selfie off the pier in 2011!

Why take a picture of just the two of us when we can take one with our cute nephews?

First family photo at the beach in 2013

So this is the picture that almost wasn't... Darrell's sister and brother-in-law were helping us get the "perfect" photo to announce our second pregnancy, and I had them snap a family photo as well. What I didn't realize until months later (#pregnancybrain) was that Darrell's brother-in-law had actually taken the family photo on his phone, not our camera. I was in tears (#hormones) because I was convinced they wouldn't still have the photo and our tradition of getting a family photo on the beach was going to be ruined after just one year. But thankfully, here the picture is. In all its glory. (I should note that we do, in fact, have other pictures of the three of us from this year, but this was the only one of us on the actual beach. Which, for the sake of the "tradition" that I had convinced myself we were starting, mattered.)

Family of four in 2015!

LOVE!!

Of course, now that I've gone and done this post, I don't know what I'll do next year for my 10th anniversary of beach trips. Maybe I'll make the post in a timely manner and actually recap our week... But that seems pretty ambitious.