summer road trippin’: stinson beach

recently we set out on a 2 week road trip. our first destination: stinson beach, ca. this is a trip we take every year with wes’ family. this was my eighth (yup, 8!) year at the beach. last year, coen was just barely 4 months old. let’s just say, this was a whole new adventure. keeping a 16 month old entertained for 14 hours of driving was, shall i say, difficult. but of course it was oh soooo worth it.
our first morning at the beach house coen took time to get acquainted with his new surroundings…and is “aunt’s”, lola and rosie.

there were so many new faces. coen especially enjoyed the big kids. and he loooved the sand.

it was so fun to watch him actually play in the sand. last year, not so much.

this year he loved to run around, chase waves, and push his cars in the sand.

such a beach bum.

some of the big kids decided that this was their year to lean how to boogie board. they were so serious, they rented wet suits from the local surf shop.

it took wes all of 10 minutes to decide he needed to jump in and help them. he did not have a wet suit, but he was a pretty good sport about it. they all had fun.

yet another fun week with family and good food!