Hilton Head Beach

This morning was a special one as Mark and I are celebrating our 13th anniversary today. The girls knew today was special, and while we got ready to hit the beach, they were busy in their room putting together a special surprise for us. Once we started heading to the beach, they pulled out an awesome card they had made for us and let us know they were going to try to make “our day” special. Grace deemed herself as official photographer, and did a great job of making sure we had pictures of just the two of us today. It was really sweet!

Our official photographer followed our every move.

We decided we would spend the morning at the pool and the afternoon at the ocean today. It was a relaxing morning of swimming and splashing. Norah started practicing swimming by herself and Grace and Emma practiced diving.  The girls were pretty self-sufficient leaving Mark and I some time to just sit back and relax a bit. We headed back to the house for lunch and to escape the Carolina heat (really oppressive today) and take a break from the sun. The amount of people walking around completely fried, yet still laying out in the sun, boggles my mind. 

Yep...she took a picture of us at the pool too!

Grace did a great job diving today.

In the afternoon we took in every last minute of beach time. The heat is a topic of conversation lately as it isn't usually this hot in June. At the beach you basically had to be in the water or you'd melt. Norah decided she wanted to try her luck at body surfing today. She did a pretty good job!

About 4pm we decided to call it quits at the beach. Though we could have spent hours in the water, we just aren’t accustomed to all the sun, and a little longer would have done us in. We headed back to the house to clean up and find a memorable “anniversary dinner” to celebrate. Of course, we had to leave our mark on the beach first.

Did I mention that it's hot here?! The crayons started crying in the heat.