It's 7:20 in the morning.  The boys are already outside playing!  The little two are up every day before 7 (often by 6:30) but I can't complain since it's so bright and sunny and praise the Lord for sunshine!!!  It's amazing and refreshing to wake up to blue skies and sunshine and I don't care what time it is!  

Also, they typically change clothes and go right out to play so I'm enjoying relaxed mornings.  This retreat location operates on a full board basis and breakfast starts at 8.  I'll see the boys then.  

My girls got their hair braided at a little shop right next door.  The process took about 3 hours total - thankfully we spread it out over two days (braids one day, beads the next).

It looks super cute, works great for pool and beach and is easy to manage.

I hope it lasts through the end of this week.

Every day after lunch we come back to our cottage to rest. and read.

I love this picture of Matt serving dessert a few nights ago.  Meals are served family style in a dining hall and you can see all the little faces carefully watching the cutting of the pie!  [we have a friend sitting at our table too]

And big news for Isaac - lost his first tooth!  Good thing the tooth fairy doles out rewards in many different currencies.

The past few days we've spent the afternoons on the beach.  Low tide and plenty of tide pools and enough sea life to stock an aquarium.  I'll get some pictures of that posted in the next few days.

Only three days remain and we begin the long journey home.