Gracie's Beach Party and a visit to Perry

We drove to St. George Island to celebrate Gracie's 6th birthday along with our good friend Jacob who also turned 6. We got there kind of late and I didn't get any good pictures of the birthday cake. You ought to go to Kasey's blog to see a lot of good pictures! I will just have to describe how awesome all the food and cakes and decorations were! Kasey always throws a good party and this one had to be one of my all time favorites! It was so much fun to hang out with Jason's family on the beach together! We also enjoyed watching Wil and Elsie taking in their first ever beach trip. Wil went down for a nap as soon as we got down there, but Elsie was all over! She dug, picked up shells, made sand angels and tried to get out of her sun hat every chance she got! Wil woke up and found the sand dollars and hermit crabs that had been collected through the afternoon. We took them into the water and they were both like koala bears hanging onto us for dear life! That night we all went to bed early at Wes's house and Kasey fixed us all breakfast the next morning. We visited and found a tiny tortoise outside. We didn't want to go, but we had plans to see Mom, Grandpa and Uncle David in Perry later on. Mom was anxious to get us over to one of Grandpa's ponds where plenty of fish have been caught recently! Mom and I took the kids on a buggy ride while David and Jason finished up fishing (and Jason battled the ants!) We got back into the good old AC at Grandpas and continued to trash his living room! Mom got on the piano and played "Jesus Loves Me" with the kids. They helped her! We set out back for Gainesville and talked about how much fun the weekend had been!