Beachin' with our Buds

Back in May we took a vacation to Fort Walton Beach with our friends, Zach & Whitney and their little boy, Parker. They live in Birmingham and we don't get to see them that much so it was nice to have a long week with such great friends!! It had been a while since we'd been to the Destin area and we had a blast soakin' up the sun and doing some good eatin'!!! I was just a few weeks along in my pregnancy when we went on vacation so I was just a tad nauseated!!! But, I mean, somebody has to boost the economy in Florida so it might as well be me!!! So I did what any good citizen would do and took one for the team!! We had so much fun and FYI - This trip will have been the last time we went to the beach as a family of 3!!

I just love my little family!!

We just let Tanner travel in his pj's and he was so silly!! We changed his clothes when we stopped in Mobile for lunch!!

He had fallen asleep in the car and we were just getting into Ft. Walton when he woke up. We asked him if he knew where we were and he said, "Where?" Then Scotty told him we were almost at Nemo's house and he started hyperventilating and pretty much didn't calm down until he went back to sleep that night!! When we got in our room he told me to take a picture of him being silly on the bed!!!

We stayed at Waterscape and highly recommend it, especially if you're traveling with kiddos!!! It was an awesome condo!!

Tanner loved this "mushroom" and always wanted Scotty to go up under it with him!!

He is such a water baby!!

This boy has always napped so well on the beach!!

Don't you wanna be here right now?

Dinner at Louisiana Lagniappe!!

Then our super amazing dessert!! Thanks, Zach!!!!

Tanner got in on Parker's story time this morning!! That boy loves a good read!!

And back to the pool we went!! Tanner loved that waterfall!!

The kiddie pool was amazing and Tanner loved the pirate ship slide!!

These two are up to no good!!

One day it was just me and Tan Man for a while. Scotty and Zach had gone down to the beach and Whitney had taken Parker to the room for a nap. We decided to try out the snack bar by the pool and, of course, Tanner picked the pretzel!!! Who'd a'thought?!?!

Another day at snack time!! This day we made friends with The Beer Man. There was this man sitting next to us with his cooler full of beer just drinkin' away while he watched his granddaughter swim. Not sure that's such a great combo, but at least her grandmother was in the water with her!! Anyway - Tanner was eating chips and told me he needed a drink and I kept telling him we'd get one as soon as we got to the room. When lo an behold Beer Man pulled out an ice cold Coca Cola from his cooler and handed it to Tanner!! We were grateful for the Coke and the laugh!!

We ate at Fudpucker's and then went outside to see the aligators!! That was a highlight for him!!

Then it was time for a snow cone!!

The next day we actually tried to spend some time on the beach!! It was really hard to pull away from that awesome pool!!

After all that fun in the sun we headed back to the pool area for an afternoon snack and that's where he ended up taking his nap too!!

Here we are at Pompano Joe's!! This is one of our favorite spots!!

Best Friends!!

Dancing before Dinner!!

Tanner loves his Daddy all the time, but when we're on vacations, he gets extremely attached to Scotty and it's so cute!!

Love when he squeezes!!

Best Buds!! I love that they've been friends for so long!!

Just another day at the beach!!

The Daddies were even lovin' the kiddie pool!!

Yummy pizza night!! This was gonna be our last night so me and Whitney left all four boys at the condo and headed out to pick up the pizza. And somewhere in all the mix we decided we were having too much fun to leave so we rented our condo for one more night and party'd on!! Now for the those of you that know Scotty, spontaneity isn't his strong suit so I was super proud of him for rolling with it!!

But all good things must come to an end. Sad face. So we did end up coming home!! Here's Tanner helping Daddy roll out our cart to load up. We had so much fun with Zach and Whitney and can't wait for our next vacation with them!!