This years move has interrupted a lot of things which has been hard on me, including my own 40th birthday ...but nothing is harder than the interruption of the kids big things. One of those was Laex's 16th Birthday, there were no big first dates or parties with friends. We had previously told the kids we would take them on a trip around their 16th birthday and we couldn't even plan that (his dream is to go to Japan!). So...we asked him what he wanted to do and he opted for a trip to the beach. We went to Folly Beach near Charleston - booked our trip and it wasn't until we showed up that we realized this is the same beach town we had been in a year prior on our trip through the Carolinas to Dollywood. We didn't get any pictures of all the yummy food we ate but there was plently, and lots of amazing beach time!
We beached, found Shark teeth, and sea animals...
..got to watch the local conservancy hatch a sea turtle nest and is was SO awesome!
We beached some more...and I got a major kick out of LeGrand searching for shark teeth, ha ha!
Laexin picked out his Birthday key lime pie!
We did a boat tour to the lighthouse we went to last year shark tooth hunting...our hunt was much less successful but we still had a good time and got to see some dolphins along the way!
We were lucky enough on our last day of the beach to have some of our new SC friends meet up with us, the kids were so excited to have friends to play with at the beach, perfect ending to our trip!
I'm reminded everyday how precious these memories are, our trips are never perfect, people get mad and frustrated and things don't always go as expected but the memories are priceless!
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