This is it… the last of the beach posts! (Are you all breathing a sigh of relief? These have been going on forever, I know, but I have actually loved reliving this time with my little family!)

About one month before we knew Michael would be able to take some time off work, I found a great deal on this little beach house, and it was available for an entire week, which was a longer stay than we had ever had in Myrtle Beach thus far. The girls were so excited and asked to see pictures of it constantly before we headed down there. There was a cute little living room, where we watched a couple of movies at night (Trolls and The Secret Life of Pets)!A dining area (and it became very clear to me that I will never, ever, have a glass tabletop, especially with kids)! It had a little red kitchen! That’s what always seals the deal for me… wherever we stay has to have a kitchen, because there is no way we’d want to eat out for every meal. We cooked and had leftovers for several nights, and bought supplies for breakfast and lunch at the house. We all love our routines, so we were happy eating muffins for breakfast, and salads and sandwiches for lunch, just like at home. This house actually had three bedrooms, but we ended up just using two, since the third one was on the opposite side of the living room, and I didn’t want to put Nella in there all on her own. She slept in the pack ‘n play in our room, and it worked out just fine.
These beds were king-sized, and when Kaya and Kaelyn overheard us saying that, they thought we meant that real kings sleep in them. It was the funniest idea to me, so I went along with their imaginations for the rest of the week. They thought that kings must have owned the beach house, and we were sleeping in their beds. They were also a little concerned that the kings would come back while we were still there. It was pretty adorable.
Kaya and Kaelyn shared this bed (and had plenty of room for Daddy to read to them or Mommy to snuggle in the middle)! On the last morning, we headed out to the beach at sunrise to take our traditional family picture. It’s always so hard to get up and out that early (these were taken around 6:20 am), but it’s always worth it to remember our trip. It’s never too early to be silly!
Goodbye beach!