beautiful day = day at the beach

this past weekend was absolutely wonderful !! we have had 3 beautiful days. since we have been home from christmas, i would bet we haven't had more than 3 or 4 dry days! (no i am not kidding!) it doesn't rain all day long, it just rains enough to be sloppy all day! but with the wonderful weather we got out and enjoyed it. we had planned for a lazy day on saturday, so we went down to the beach and just relaxed. we fed the birds, looked for shells, and just enjoyed the nice day! feeding the birds at the beach is always kind of cool! one minute there will not be a single bird in sight and then the minute you throw out some food, whoa watch out because it is dive bomb time!! don't dare stop the food or you will be their next target!! on saturday evening we had a seafood night!! shawn made his famous new orleans shrimp (according to grady, they are called delicious!) and some clams. now when we started cooking, i had no plans of eating those slimy little shell creatures, oh excuse me, clams, but as dinner progressed i became either brave or so tired of shelling shrimp for the kids, that the clams actually started looking interesting, but any way, i tried them !!!! they were actually really good!! i don't think i will ever be brave enough to try oysters, but hey baby steps are great!! on sunday we woke up to sunshine again!! when you are used to the cloudy mornings to wake up to, you kind of feel like a vampire waking up in the middle of the day. it takes a while for your eyes to get used to it! but we went to church and then for a sunday drive along the sound. we stopped off at the edmonds marina for a beautiful view of the olympic mountains and mt. baker. wow everything is so gorgeous up here when you can see past the clouds! gabe's basketball team also had their last game on sunday afternoon!! it was a rematch with the first team they played, the kids looked great and they had a fun time!! right when we got home from the game, gabe was ready to start practicing for baseball!! we went up to the school and practiced for about an hour. gabe didn't even look rusty, just picked right up where we left off last year!! so no one can say we didn't soak up a great weekend !!!