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Great Weekend!!!!

We had to have a final beach trip to Litchfield for the summer!! So, we headed that way for the long Labor Day weekend. It ended up being my mom, aunt Meri, sister and all of her children. Great days consisting of sitting by the beach and occasional napping, reading good books, and to top it all off a TURTLE HATCHING!!!

The highlight of the weekend was a turtle nest we were all keeping an eye on. We knew it was due to hatch any day that we were down there. One day while walking on the beach, we noticed it had started to sink. We went back later that evening and some other people were around the nest watching it. About ten minutes later, a baby turtle made a fight to the sand surface and started his trek down to the water. We all followed him and watched him finally make it to the wave that took him out to the deep sea. Then, we were walking back up the beach and noticed more turtles start coming out of the nest. There ended up being about 70 baby turtles that hatched. The neat thing was that the sun was just going down so we were able to watch most of the even without flashlights. It was glorious!! Such a miracle to watch the beauty of God's creation in such a natural, beautiful process. My mom was thrilled to the bone. And, Ryan got to see his first turtle hatching. He wasn't quite as enthusiastic but he thought it was cool.

Here is Anna and Davis with their aunt B....love these two!!

R and I before dinner

Ragin, Davis, Anna, and Eadon....Anna got these glasses from Claire's and thought they looked cool

This was all of us after the turtle hatching!!

Elizabeth and Anna...their attire for the turtle watching cracked me up. Anna is wearing Elizabeth's sweater and pajama shorts.

Today, I made these smores bars for the first time.....they look really yummy and I can't wait to sample!!!

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