Family Vacation 2012 Part 1

As you know by reading our blog, we are a family that loves to travel.  We try to take a family vacation every summer.  Curt and I both grew up in homes where our dads worked retail and restaurant, so family vacations were very difficult.  We love deciding where we are going to go, planning the details, and the excitement leading up to the day we leave.  Brooklyn was packed for about a week before we left and she was so thrilled she got to do it pretty much by herself.  This year, we met my mom's family in Gulf Shores, AL.  The Bridger Family all met from Memphis, Jackson, and Houston!  It was tons of fun!  We all stayed in a very nice beach house, spent tons of time on the beach, playing in the beautiful sand and water, playing games until the wee hours of the morning, and going into Gulf Shores for some fun!  Here are some pictures of our fun!  The captions will let you know all that we did!  Here's to family and fun!  We seriously have the funnest family ever...the Bridgers are a blast!!!

Brooklyn chasing the waves!

Our view from our beach house!

First night and can't hardly wait to get in that water!

Our beach house was on the left side!

Daddy played the first night!

My loves!

Beautiful beach!

Our set up...it was so windy that we could not put up the canopy!

Sand castles with Maddie

Mom and Grandma!  Grandma loved being with all of the family!

Brooklyn burying Maddie!

We didn't get a picture of Brooklyn's mermaid but this is Colson's submarine!

Castle!

Brooklyn is an Uncle Frank's girl!  

Aunt Susan, Maddie, and Malorie all recovering from a morning in the sun!

We went exploring on other beaches!

We were going to go on a hike but got attacked by mosquitoes!

Pensacola, Florida beach

The beach was VERY rough!

Colson chasing the Pensacola waves

Beautiful water!

Grandma and Brooklyn

Neil is Colson's buddy!!!

The kites flew so well!  The last day and a half we had some seaweed brought in which was a bummer!

Enjoying Trix treats!