When you take a crew of cousins (and a bag of towels and a pan of bars) to the beach, sometimes there’s so much going on that you don’t even know which direction to aim your camera.  It was a frenzy of activity!  We arrived for the blue hour, just…

There are so many more pictures from this trip to the beach, but I can’t share them because they include our host child.  It is sufficient to say, however, that a wonderful time was had, and our host child was caught right up in the middle of it!  There was…

Leaving to go anywhere with almost 20 extended family members all together takes time.  A lot of time.  Way more time than you think it would take, even when you tell yourself to leave a lot of extra time!  It’s best to just embrace it! I’m learning to play with…