Point Pleasant, NJ

We took the girls over to the beach in Point Pleasant, NJ today since we haven't been to the beach for quite awhile. There were so many people on the boardwalk that finding a parking spot was quite the challenge and the price to pay to park in a lot was ridiculous. $25 or 30! Absolutely insane! We were lucky enough to find street parking. We didn't realize that you had to pay to use the beach. Crazy. I have never heard of that before. The lady at the booth wasn't very nice when we started to walk down the stairs to the beach without paying. So I made sure to tell her we were from Florida where we don't charge people to use the beautiful beaches there!! Anyway, the girls were so excited to go play on the beach. After setting up the sunshade, we took the girls down to the water so they could get there feet wet. Both had a fantastic time and laughed and screamed when the waves crashed on them. Some of the waves were pretty big and once, I almost lost hold of Abby's hand. She looked at me and said "That was a close one!" I was pretty nervous, but we backed up a little and continued to enjoy the waves. Mckenzie is so independent that she didn't want Scott holding on to her at all. We played in the water for awhile and then we went to play in the sand. Abby was digging holes and piling sand up everywhere. Mckenzie didn't like to sit in the sand or get her toes in it, so she spent a good amount of time sitting on the blanket while playing in the sand. Which meant, there was lots of sand on the blanket. The girls and I built a sandcastle and decorated it with shells we found on the beach. We took the girls down to the water one more time, but it looked like there where jellyfish in the water so we didn't stay for very long. We played a little more and called it a day. We got some dinner and ice cream on the boardwalk before heading home. I don't know why we ordered the kids their own food because they ended up eating most of my sandwich and some of Scott's food as well. Good thing we ordered the girls food I like to eat! Abby had a chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream cone and she doesn't eat very fast so it is always melting. So, she will have one of us lick it so she can eat her ice cream without getting messy. Once when Scott was licking her ice cream, Abby said to me "Mommy, Daddy's eating my ice cream!!!". She was mad because Scott got a chunk of cookie dough when he was licking it. On the drive home, Mckenzie kept saying she was one and we all kept telling her she was two. Every time we said two, she would shout one even louder. It was hilarious! Not sure why she doesn't want to be two. Scott had Mckenzie counting to ten with him. She was doing a great job of pronouncing the words! Soon, she will be able to count on her own! We got the girls home, bathed and off to bed. Both girls were pretty tired out so here's to hoping they sleep well. We got good news today. We have an offer on our house in Florida!!!!! It was only the second showing of our home and the guy fell in love with the place. The price we are selling for is a shame, but that is the market right now so there is nothing we can do about that. We just keep reminding ourselves it was a lesson learned, a very expensive lesson, but a good life lesson. I am hoping all goes smoothly and I am so glad we have a realtor to take care of it all for us.

Sorry the pictures of kind of blurry. I forgot to clean all the little fingerprints off the camera lens!