Orange Beach

On Friday of last week, we hit the road early in the morning to head to the beach for a little vacation for the long weekend!

Robert’s parents have a condo in Orange Beach, AL that we stayed in.  What better way to celebrate this little guy’s 3rd birthday than with a trip to a beach named after his favorite color?!  🙂

We got there late afternoon and enjoyed a little beach time before dinner.

This little guy was happy to be there!

and he loved the water!

I loved that white sugar sand and the breeze that kept us cool!

Well, the breeze was more like a gail force wind but we didn’t mind.  and it made Spencer’s hair look awesome!  🙂

We went out to dinner that night where Maxwell got one final chance to celebrate his birthday!

Cheers to 3!  Things were going swimmingly until that night…Both Spencer and I had been fighting a cold for 2 days and his reared its ugly head on Friday night.  He woke up around 11:00 just miserable – couldn’t breathe, couldn’t get comfortable – and then the croupy cough started.  Poor guy.  I ended up sleeping with him all night and neither of us really slept more than 30 minute stretches.  Luckily, I had some prescription steroid medicine leftover from the last time he had the croup that we gave him around 5:00 am.  He helped and we made it to the morning.

Given his lack of sleep all night, I was going to stay in the condo all morning to try to get him to nap while Robert took Maxwell to the beach.  In trying to get everyone ready, I managed to SLAM Maxwell’s finger in the door.  And I slammed it hard.  His middle finger instantly swelled up and turned black and blue.  We seriously thought it was broken and called the walk-in clinic only to hear that they had 10 people in the back and another 10 in the waiting room.  Ugh.  We decided to just ice it and see how it was that afternoon.  Robert did convince Maxwell to go out the beach and I think the distraction was good for him!  I stayed in the condo and Spencer took a great nap.  Hooray!

My view of the boys on the beach…

We all took it easy that afternoon and stayed in to watch the AL game…

Roll Tide!

More tomorrow!