Expectations...

We survived.

We had a great time.

We had a lot of expectations going into the trip...some were realized...some were cast aside-thankfully...and some were totally forgotten.

EXPECTATIONS:

You're leaving for 10 days with your family on the beach...you expect to:

**pack lots of food and make lunches and dinner for everyone--THANKFULLY you abandon this insane idea and find the nearest Rubio's, hamburger joint, pita pit, mexican food and chinese (thank you Vernon) joint--and feast away.

**bring laundry detergent to wash clothes mid-week, but instead find the nearest laundromat and opt for the $20 fluff and fold service!! :) then realize at the end of the week when you thought you'd do another load--that you're content with letting everyone wear the same clothes they've had on for the last two days and just wash when you get home.

**sit on the beach and read a book...and only occasionally glance in the direction of your children who are playing with the knife-like sand shovel that your husband bought for HIMSELF (as well as the tractor he bought for HIMSELF), realizing they're still okay and if the people next to you want them gone they'll have to do something about it, since you are determined to sit and read that book!! (and I did it and it was wonderful).

**get your daughter's hair trimmed and only trimmed since she has great dreams of being Rapunzel someday...but end up with a serious hack job and have to go back in to get it fixed, but in the end it turns out incredibly adorable.

**to go and watch Mama Mia with your mom, sister, and daughter and completely LOVE it and SING through the entire thing--expecting to not really care for Pierce's singing but realizing you have NOT expectations for his singing :)

**to have great photo sessions with all of your clients and enjoy being able to capture fun family times...(more to come on those :)

**to be able to capture your own family but instead end up wanting to strangle your children or at least go and chuck them into the scenic ocean behind you!!!

Expectations....

I'm expecting to sit in front of my computer all week long...and expecting to enjoy proofing all my sessions. I have huge expectations for another summer vacation next year--YIPPEE!!

Here's my attempt at showing my family how we're going to "jump". Had I known that THIS would be the instant that they would all choose to stop crying, whining, sticking their tongues out and crossing their eyes...I would have kept jumping and jumping and jumping!!!