Cocoa Beach, Swimming, and Cousins!

We spent Tuesday and Wednesday at Cocoa Beach, while staying at a hotel next to Cocoa Beach on Tuesday night.  Grandma Cindi met us down there and spent two days with us.  It was a nice time.  The kids love the beach.  They completely entertain themselves with the sand and the waves.

Tessa's sand castle

Closer view

Taegan making funny faces on the surf board

Kids playing in the waves

They tried to jump into the waves as they came

Jarem liked to do a dance move into each wave throwing his hip into the wave...it was funny!

Looks like Jesikah got hit with a wave

Jessica, Kyle, and Taegan with Grandma Cindi taking the picture

Jarem hauling water to fill the little pool that Grandma brought.

Taegan, Jarem, and Jessica in the pool

The boys with their rented surf boards.  They enjoyed the surfing.

In the hotel pool the following day:

Playing football...probably making a face since I was taking a picture

Jesikah in the hot tub

Tessa with the football

Grandma Cindi

We stopped at the Ron Jon surf shop before leaving Cocoa Beach...everyone got a t-shirt.

Alex holding Taegan in Ron Jon (I was proud of my trick getting Taegan to smile)

We spent Wednesday night and Thursday night with Grandma Guelde.  While there, we enjoyed her company and the kids loved the pool (swimming multiple times).  They certainly got in a lot of swimming.  They also enjoyed getting reacquainted with their second cousins, Marley and Allison.  They are Alex and Jesikah's ages and we usually get to see them when we come to Florida.  They spent the night there with us the second night.  I didn't even get a single picture at Grandma Guelde's house.  I will have to do better next time.

We spent the last night of our vacation with TJ and Sunshine. Their daughter Lyla connected with Tessa right away. It was really cute since Jesikah is usually the one the babies like. It was fun for Tessa to have that connection to her cousin. The boys went golfing during the day, and then we had a girl's night out when they got back. It was a fun way to end a good vacation.

Tessa and Lyla

***Funny thing was, when we left Tennessee to go on vacation, the weather was beautiful.  The farther south we got, the rainier it got.  We started thinking we should have vacationed in Tennessee where the forecast called for beautiful weather rather than going to Florida where the forecast called for rain.  As it turned out, it was sunny everyday and the few showers that we got were between things we were doing so it all worked out beautifully.