our first EVER family vacation

i have wanted, for a long time, to take a family vacation. i enjoy making memories with extended family, but i felt it was very important to start making memories of our own! a couple of months ago i got an email with a great deal for a hotel in myrtle beach... so we decided to take a family vacation! i had pretty high expectations for the trip :) i know for sure the girls had a wonderful time. they loved loved all of the pools! they swam and swam and swam. we had planned to go out to diner thursday night, but they chose to stay in and get takeout so they could swim some more.
for the parents of the trip, however, there were some stressful times. not knowing exactly what to expect or exactly how to plan, we overlooked a few things. so when we do it in the future, we will be better equipped. and we do plan to do it for many years to come. this may not have been the best year, but we had to start some where!

here are a few pictures, i didn't take that many since all they did was swim and i am a little leery of having my expensive camera near water. which is why they are wearing the same bathing suits in all but one of the pictures, i took them all this morning! :)

playing at the beach
(we spent thursday morning on the beach)
brooke decided to poop on the beach... uh huh nice (there are no pictures of that!!)getting ready to swim in the indoor poolloving it!
brooke playingstill swimmingmy favorite pool... the lazy river!hana enjoying the lazy river :)lest we forget... madeline was there too :)

i guess i could sum up the time by saying, it was a training vacation for the vacations to come!