Panama City Beach 2011

We took our annual trip to PCB over the week of July 4th this year!  We had SUCH a great time!  Lots of good food, pool time, beach time, plenty of time to relax, read, talk, and just be together.

We went to Capt. Anderson's for one of our eating out nights.  Soooo good.   We've talked for years about the fact that we should try to get to the restaurant early and beat the crowd.  Ha...it's never happened.  We usually have to wait an hour or more.  This year we actually did it!!  We made it to Capt. Anderson's by about 5:30 and we didn't have a wait at all AND we had a great view!! 

Our family has lots of tradaditons.  We like them.  One of our traditions is to drive race cars once a year, while we're at the beach.  We all really get into it. 

This year Kate and I couldn't drive the race cars b/c we were both pregnant with our sweet babies. We love driving race cars, but we didn't mind sitting out one bit.  Katherine was 33 weeks along with baby Jacob and I'm 8 weeks along with our 2nd. 

We decided to stop by the beach on our way home to watch the sunset.  Beautiful!  

This is the dress Emily's Grandmama (Bert's mom) made for her.:)

Stan is spending the summer in Panama City Beach with Campus Outreach on Summer Leadership Project.  He's had a great summer.  He still had lots of responsibilities (work, meetings to go to, etc.) the week we were there, but we were thankful for the time he was able to spend with us.  We all got SO excited when Stan popped in to see us at the condo between work and meetings. 

Emily with her builders.  Daddy, Papa Stan, and Uncle Brett were in charge of building sandcastles and Emily was in charge of knocking them down.  She thought it was so much fun! 

Katherine is supervising all the action.  We can hardly WAIT to meet sweet Jacob in just a few weeks! 

Emily loved playing the sand, in the ocean, in the pool....she loved it all!

Brett thought it would be fun to bury Bert in the sand.  Emily wasn't too sure about it. 

Emily giving Daddy a kiss. 

Emily all wrapped up and ready to walk back to the condo.  Bert made fun of me after I took this picture.  He said that from this picture it's going to look like it's the dead of winter.  Ha!  There was a breeze and Em was wet...I didn't want my baby getting cold.:)  

The main pool had lots of waterfalls and Emily LOVED us holding her under the waterfall and feeling the water on her back.  She would hold her arms back and just laugh and laugh. 

I wasn't sure if Emily would keep her sunglasses on long enough to even take a picture, but I was wrong.  She didn't want to take them off.  Little cutie!:) 

Our last night in Panama City we went to Pier Park.  They have a good number of rides for little kids, but Emily was still too small for most of them.  She was able to ride the carousel with Papa Stan holding on tight. 

We also took a train ride with her.  She loved it!  

Relaxed, waiting on the train to get back....

We had such a great week!  Thanks, Mama and Daddy, for making this happen every year!  We have so many wonderful memories!!