Every year we go to the beach for one week with Ben’s family. The first year we went to Cape May, NJ, then a couple of years to Rehoboth, DE, and last year to the Outer Banks, NC. This year we decided to go back to Cape May. It was perfect. We had a crazy storm the night before we left that knocked out our power (some of our neighbors didn’t get their power back for a week!) so we packed in the dark and got our of our AC-less house as fast as we could.

If you’ve never been, Cape May is an adorable little town on the Jersey shore. Actually, it is the southern most tip of NJ so they sometimes refer to it as Exit 0.

This year, our house was so cute and right within walking distance to the town. The town has lots of little cute shops and restaurants. Really fun to walk around. Our house was so cute, it even had a little bunny in the front yard!

The east coast is having a very hot summer so it was a HOT week. We only got down to the beach a couple of times because it was too hot to sit in the sun. But we did have fun on the days we went!

Sam playing in the sand

Campbell and her Daddy

Love those little footprints. The boy they belong to couldn’t stay put for a photo!

Grandma Judi and Sam

Campbell and her feet

Campbell and Mommy

Beach blanket beauty

Sam and Mommy

Campbell and Auntie Becca, hat twins

While we were there, we went on a skimmer ride through the marsh to see all the wildlife in the area. It was pretty cool for all ages!

Sam and Grandpa Char

Sam on the skimmer

I’m pretty sure he had his eyes closed

Sam and Grandpa Char

Sam and Grandma Judi

Campbell and Grandpa Char

We celebrated the 4th of July with music in the park and the best fireworks I’ve seen in a while.

Listening to the band

Wow! Look at that! (Sam found the fireworks a little scary–too loud!)

Grandpa Char, Grandma Judi, and Auntie Becca took such good care of our kids, we just spent a lot of time hanging out on the couch and reading. It was lovely.

Thanks again Judi and Char. We had a great time!!