travel diaries | destin 2019

Hello! My name's Diana and this is my trusty ol' blog. I had to dust off some cobwebs, but here I am! We have LOTS to catch up on. ;)

After our amazing trip with friends last year, I was dying to get back to Destin this summer. We ended up booking a small 1 bdrm townhouse on the beach and headed down in early May with just the four of us. 

Again, we are SO grateful that we have a friend that lets us use his buddy passes with Southwest...but this was the first time we had any trouble getting to our destination and it was a long day! Mark and I had to split up. I took Beau on the early flight to Panama City Beach and Mark and Davis stayed behind. We were hopeful they would get on the next flight but unfortunately they didn't get there until about 6pm that night. Anyway, Beau and I made the best of it with a stop to eat and stretch our legs in Rosemary Beach. 

Meanwhile, Mark won Dad of the Year by hanging back with Davis at the airport for 8 hours...

Beau and I ran all of our grocery errands, etc. and unloaded ALL of the luggage while we waited for the other two to fly in. Finally we were reunited and we started our beach vacay the next morning!

We took it nice and easy, had no plans, and just enjoyed the beach, the waves, and the salty air. 

Some nights we ate in, others we walked down the beach for dinner. We ended almost every night with a beach walk!

Our view from our balcony:

Every day, Beau would BEG Mark to dig him a tide pool and every day, Mark would end up frustrated with Beau because he would end up knocking sand back into the hole. 

One day, both boys were a little grumpy and didn't want to play very much. They both ended up sitting in our laps and before we knew it, they were both asleep! We basked in the silence and the snuggles until I couldn't take it anymore. 

Beau and I went inside to each lunch and take a real nap while Mark didn't dare move a muscle. Davis ended up sleeping on him out on the beach for 3 hours! I even brought Mark some lunch and refreshments. He loved all of the snuggles!

Oh yeah, and I'm pregnant! I turned 12 weeks during our trip. More on that later...

We love staying ON the beach because we can take advantage of the beach while the kids nap. Our baby monitor situation didn't work out this time but Mark and I switched off afternoons of having the beach to ourselves. It was heaven. 

One night, it was supposed to storm so we took the kids to an indoor black light putt-putt. We had the best intentions but the big room, balls, golf clubs, black lights, etc. posed too much of a temptation for the boys and it was a hot mess of us chasing two toddlers around. ha!

On the last morning we had breakfast al fresco in our pajamas, cleaned up, said bye to the beach, and headed out together. Luckily our flight home was wide open and we made it back with no problems!

Bye, beach! Until next time! <3