Tuesday, June 23, 2009

The Annual Simms Family Beach Trip

We just finished up the yearly beach trip with the Simms family (our adopted family here in SC). For those of you who don't know, the relationship to us is as follows: My husband is Craig. His brother Allan is married to Allison, who is one of the Simms children. Her parents, Johnny and Miriam, are the head of the Simms family. They let us tag along on their family beach trip.

It was an awesome beach trip this year. The weather was great and we had no major injuries, illness, or broken beach tents. It was MUCH better than last year, where just about everything that could go wrong went wrong. The only loss was one tooth (Lauren's). She was visited by the tooth fairy, who obviously has more money than she did when we were little! :) Or maybe it's inflation...

Here is the house where we stayed at Emerald Isle, NC. It has 7 bedrooms, 6 full and 2 half baths, an elevator and lots of other fun stuff. Everyone liked it so much that they decided to reserve it again for next year.







Here are some under water pictures taken with Craig's sweet camera...



Allison and Sydney


Caitlin, Joanna, and Sydney


Lauren


Wesley

Allan throwing Lauren into the air. We have to have one of these pictures every year!

Here is a shot from up on the deck. That is Lauren doing the spread eagle into the pool.


Here are Ethan, Wesley, Brian, and Grant planning their synchronized swimming performance. It was beautiful! Grant looks very enthusiastic about the dance coming up. :)




Here is one of the videos of the synchronized swimming.




Here are Allan, Wesley, and Craig. I don't quite know what to say...those are just the most amazing faces I have ever seen.



Chillin' in the tub. Wesley, Joanna, Allison, and Mary



Joanna boogie boarding. What a babe! Right, Craig?

Craig boogie-ing with his cool mohawk. What a babe! Right, Craig?


Joanna and Allison are professional mermaids. See our beautiful moves? Okay, so we look a little special, but that's how I always end up looking in the ocean pictures. Or...in all pictures.


Turns out we are also Charlie's Angels on the side. Too bad it's blurry, but I still couldn't help including this picture.


Awww, wish we were still there. The water was gorgeous!

Sigh, back in SC. The dogs were happy to see us, though. Steve watched them for us again and none of them died.






4 comments:

Joanne said...

Fun pictures. It looks like you all had tons of fun. Cool mohawk Craig, and the faces of Craig and Allan in that one picture really are hilarious. Al looks like Popeye and Craig looks like a genie.

Mary Church said...

YES! new pictures....man I had fun at SC and NC altogether...I had fun memories being there... :)

Karen said...

I was so excited to see a new post! =) Fun pics! Makes me even more excited for our family's beach trip in August.

Hoping Craig will still have the mohawk...

Mom and Dad said...

Thanks for the new post!
Looks like you had a great time at the beach. The synchronized swimming was impressive. And Allan and Craig's goofy faces make me crack up every time I look at that picture. Thanks for letting Mary join in the fun.
Love you!

Going Boogie Boarding

Going Boogie Boarding
Allan & Craig

Out on the Beach

Out on the Beach
Joanna & Lauren