birthaversary

this is what adam kept calling our trip this weekend. a little birthday anniversary combo. my b-day was friday and our anniversary is august 3rd. thursday night when adam got home from work, he totally surprised me and said we were heading to the beach. i have to say- adam has planned some good "surprises" for me in the past, but i think this might be the only time i haven't had some sort of hunch. usually i annoyingly crack the case. i am a total surprise spoiler. so this one was a winner. caught me totally off guard. i was literally just about to put olivia to bed when he said we were leaving, so we did a little speed packing and headed to NSB! olivia was quite excited about all the commotion even though she didn't know what was going on. all she saw was 1- she wasn't going to bed and 2- we were going somewhere with bathing suits and beach toys! it was pretty funny. she kept crawling around banging on the walls doing her little squeals. needless to say, she totally thought this was her vacation and acted like the royal queen the whole time. she loved it and so did we! we had lots of sun, swimming and food. maybe not so much sleep, though. olivia was waking up at the crack of dawn and heading straight to the sliding glass door like a little puppy dog wanting to go out. we obliged.

checking out the new digs with dad. she started going crazy. we have been doing the beach a lot so i think she knew what was up.

lots of this face and squealing when we got there...

olivia has mastered holding on to the edge in the pool, but i think she thinks it just free drinks off the ledge. gross.

 

catching some mickey mouse clubhouse between beach/pool trips

getting crazy at manny's pizza. what was in that greek salad?!

i'm so funny on my vacation

waiting for our ice cream...

i gave this to her as a joke but she though it was normal. she kept looking at me like, "ok, where's yours mom?"

"mmm. i love mint chocolate chip. so glad i got the double scoop."

me looking like garbage in the early morning

 

a rare shot with the usual family photographer

sad that i just realized we don't have one family pic from the trip. oops. here's to my next birthday surprise! :)