Having a house directly on the beach was a lot of fun for kids, however it created tons more work for the adults. It became the ritual to scrub the kids down as much as possible before they entered the house, dip their hands & feet in buckets of water, throw them directly in the tub/ shower, clean up the path of sand they still managed to create, try to clean out all of the sand from the tubs, and then wash their clothes. As you could tell, this got old when on an average day i'd say we did this about 7x! I especially liked the picture of Alexandra, Isabel and Zane waiting for their scrub-down on the porch after a few hrs of playing.

We also all look forward to our yearly haircut at the reunion. Amy is an amazing hair stylist and she graciously brings all of her supplies to take care of the family haircuts.