When you shove a bunch of Stenners into one house for a week… you get a lot of beach bum time, movie-watching, goldfish-eating, ocean-swimming and, naturally, photoshoots! Our family is the definition of beach bums, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s a quiet retreat after the end of a busy summer where we connect and read books and build sandcastles on the beach.

This year was especially fun because my nephew Joshua joined us for his first family trip as a baby and not just a baby bump! Brynlee was as sweet as ever and let me put her down for naps and give her snuggles… all completely unprompted by me! I love my family and hope you enjoy this fun mix of camera + iphone pictures!

Apparently this is called the whirl? I’m so out of the loop.

You never know what you’re gonna get when you hand a stranger your camera… but this one isn’t too bad!

SURPRISE ROMPER!