Just Beachy

As promised, a happy post today.

We still have a "lost kid" in the Jr High system.

We DO have a carpool for Jr High (if you live here

you will understand my anxiety--doubled this year

by cancer--at the Jr High carpool process!).

It's a new day, and of course I woke up and am

going to be OK today.  For today, I will take OKAY!

So back to the beach!!

The amount of pictures I took this year at the beach

borders on obscene.  But can you blame me?

Everywhere I went, the camera went.

This also solved (for the most part) the problem of

ME being in pictures.  A fate worse than death.  Or cancer.

We had a week of glorious day after glorious day at the

beach.  Perfect weather, perfect temperatures, perfect time.

I kid you not.  I slept.  Kyle slept.  We had fun.

We relaxed.  We ate well.  We played in the sand.  We

played in the water.  We sat at the beach.  We built

sand sculptures.  We hung out with lots of family.  Kids

played with cousins.  We talked.  We laughed.  We talked

some more.   If there is a heaven, MY heaven will look

like the beach.  If I have to live forever (and goodness

that thought makes me so tired some days) than I want

it somehow to involve "beachy things".

Are you listening God? ;)

Quite possibly I'm going to that "other place" anyway-

so I may not have much say in the matter.

Enjoy a few of my thousands of shots today.

KNOW that it was good.

We were GOOD.

We had FUN!

We had JOY!

We lived!  We breathed!  We were in the moments.

I don't know if any of the other Nielsons love the 

beach like the Kyle Nielsons, but maybe that doesn't 

matter.   The terminal guy thoroughly loved every 

minute of it.

And so did his family.

We wouldn't trade it for all the money in the world.

We wish we could freeze this week in time and live

it over and over again.

Like the movie Groundhog Day.

Pictures, it's what I've got for today!

I just looked at all these pictures and they made me smile.

A SUPER HAPPY smile.

I'm posting beach pictures FOREVER.

Like, seriously! ;)

Hope you don't mind!