Mark & Mandy

Elsie doing her best Happy Birthday song…

We headed to the local beach on Tuesday – which also had a playground. We had the beach all to ourselves.

The kids were excited to play in the water which is calm and warm …

Mark set up some shade contraptions and much of the day was spent critiquing the design … they did protect us a bit.

Elsie and Niko hunted a seagull …

And everyone knows that Sand Jumping is a fun sport

Finally it was time for some rough housing in the water with the dads …

This is the 5th year for Team vacation and we opted to stay in country and head out to Sag Harbor (the quaint part of the hamptons) for the week. Elsie and Nicholas continue to be great playmates …

We started our vacation with a quick trip to down town sag harbor for lunch and groceries

And then headed back to the house – time for throwing rocks off of the doc (which is an endless game – although it takes longer to collect the rocks and about 1.5 seconds to quickly throw them all in the water at once). Note to self: invent an automatic rock collector.

We had a few essentials waiting for us when we arrived to the house – thank you amazon prime – including this pool for the kids. We didn’t have a compressor so we relied on Scott’s Hot air. Mark was in the garage looking for some pump … and arrived just in time for the pool to be assembled and Scott to be passed out on the floor.

It was a hit…

Pretty soon Elsie’s clothes came off…

Jul enjoying some wine …

More rock throwing … check out Elsie’s Mop … Mark insists that we keep growing with no cutting

On the hunt for rocks and shells to throw off the dock.

Elsie and Nicholas having their after dinner ice cream … Niko has chocolate, Elsie has Ba-Nilla (V’s come later apparently)

After the kids were in bed we had our dinner – of course having a florist on the trip always comes in handy. Our table was instantly transformed with some honeysuckle and hydrangea’s.

We are having a great time … but the east coast is extremely HOT and HUMID – good for the skin I guess.

More to come…

If your birthday is coming up, Elsie is ready to sing for you! She has recently been mentioning her upcoming birthday (a mere 8 months away) and how much she likes birthdays in general. Whenever we see a candle in anything, she automatically assumes it’s her birthday and starts to sing (to herself).