Bye Bye Beach Baby

Last weekend was our last free weekend before the big move. It was time to say good bye to the sugar white sandy beaches of Panama City. Our good friends, The Tuckers, came down from Alabama for one last visit. The most difficult part of moving is knowing you won't get to see your friends on a regular basis. When we moved from Alabama to Florida we still manages to see the Tuckers on an almost monthly basis for the first 2 years!! This will be harder as we are moving from Florida to New Mexico on the other side of the country.

The kids had a BLAST at the beach!! The afternoon was spent with kids napping and the Daddy's got to go to the shooting range. It was about time as they have been talking about it for nearly 7 years!!! Then everyone met up at our house for smoked ribs and chicken.

Eddie thought he was hot stuff "surfing" the waves. I think he drank half the ocean.

It wasn't until bedtime we realized how sunburned everyone got at the beach.

We will really miss living close enough to the Tuckers to drive for a weekend visit without a lot of planning ahead. Thank God for the internet and cell phones. We can at least watch the kids grow through pictures like these.

Madison and Alan May 2010

Madison and Alan October 2004

Alex and Eddie

May 2010

Alex and Eddie

January 2007

It's not good bye, but until we see you again.
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