This last weekend Sunday to be exact Josh and I had this great idea that we would take ALL the kids to the beach. 

I mean we knew it wouldn't exactly be that relaxing afternoon you expect pre-twins plus one but they are almost two and life is starting to get easier so how bad can it be right?


Sunday morning I slept in and woke up to a breakfast in bed (thank you babe your the best *insert kiss face emoji here). Josh and I then discussed how maybe we should go to the beach and we checked the weather for the day we saw that it was supposed to be in the 80's later in the afternoon around 2ish. Perfect, the twins would be able to get their nap in because no one not even us their parents wants to be around when they haven't napped. 

Naptime rolled around we pinned the twins down to change them because frankly they hate diaper changes anymore and attempt to run, kick, climb, and army crawl away at the very site of a diaper and some wipes. This process takes about 5-10 minutes. 

Once we laid them down they fell asleep quick and I hopped in the shower got ready and then logged onto Pinterest to search for a beach packing list.  

While I was packing Josh and Jadyn were blowing up 50,000 beach floaties (is that what they are called?...oh well). 

Finally, two hours later we were ready or at least as ready as we were going to be. I told Josh we should probably bring a pack n play or something to contain them but he insisted nope we don't need that and it's just one extra thing to carry and he didn't want to deal with it. 

We woke the twins and little miss put them all in the car and we were off. I  was feeling success at this point. 

We get to the beach and it's packed no place to park so we had to park a 1,000,000,000 miles out. Hopefully, the twins will walk because we already had 1,000,000,000,000 things to carry. Oh and those floaties Josh and Jadyn spent all afternoon blowing up, we left in the car because we realized we brought more than we could carry and it was so windy they would probably just blow away anyway. What a waste of air ha. 

Immediately upon getting up to the changing area to put the twins little swimmers on I could already feel the stress of trying to have eyes on two little people running in two different directions and we weren't even by the water yet. Everyone was now dressed and ready to go so let's head down to the water. Meanwhile, Trev had other ideas. He ran off in the opposite direction and Jadyn chased him down and held him in one spot until Josh could get to him. Finally 20hrs later we got down to the beach (literally it's like 4:30 at this point)

Immediately upon Trev's feet touching the sand he was not pleased and informed us it was "hot". I mean it was warm but it definitely not hot. 

He was very leery of the stuff and didn't want to walk on it so Josh ended up carrying him, the cooler, and a beach bag in. I at this point had a towel bag + diaper bag and little miss and was holding Keaton's hand who really didn't seem to be phased by the feeling of sand on his feet. 

Finally, we were at the beach and there was a little spot with barely any water in it but just enough for the twins perfect! I thought they could just play there. Ha! Who was I kidding?! Trevyn immediately made a mad dash for the "big water" and was pissed and kicking his feet when I informed him to go back and wait for dad before he tried to go in the "big water". 

Once Josh and the older boys had everything setup at our little "beach spot" he informed me I could go sit with little miss while he watched the twins. I was so nervous, to be honest I mean this is a huge lake of water and there were TWO of them and one of him. 

After sitting for a couple minutes with little miss I got up and just carried her with and went to help because seriously the two of them were all over the place. There were so many people. They were trying to dash for the water, take other kids beach toys, walking on their sand castles, and attempting to invade everyone's towels with their wet, sandy feet. 

At this point, I was over it and truthfully not feeling the love for Josh that he said we should leave the pack n play at home. I mean at least we could have got a five-second breather to chill if we could have contained them. 

We were there for roughly 30-40 min when we came to the conclusion this was zero fun at all actually it was quite miserable and wanted to go home so we packed up while the twins ate some veggie straws that they preferred after they were rolled in the dirt. See below ha! 

Essentially we spent TWO hours packing for 30 minutes of chaos. The older boys were not pleased with all they wanted to stay so meanwhile I had them nagging me to "stick it out". I mean really?! How about not next time I'm just taking them and finding a sitter for the twins OR at the very least bringing a pack n play. 

The best part once we got all packed up and we're ready to leave the twins through a huge screaming fit and would not walk out, so Josh and I ended up carrying them out + all the shit we brought in. My arms felt like jello by the time I got back to the car. Oh, and I had Trevyn who kept screaming and kicking and throwing himself around in my arms while I was trying to carry little miss in her car seat. It took us probably 20 minutes +  to get back to the van.