Ever since our governor announced the stay-at-home order after the first week off of school, I have been pretty diligent about social distancing. With the exception of having my parents over for Ella's birthday on March 31st, the six of us have not socialized with any of our friends and family. We have not had any playdates with friends or gotten together with any family members. With the exception of talking to people in our neighborhood on our daily walks and bike rides, the six of us have been each other's only company for the last four weeks. However, after kind of hitting a wall after Spring Break, I decided to take my brother up on his offer to go over to Blake Island with him today since the weather was going to be absolutely gorgeous and I just felt the need to get out somewhere and do something fun! So against Ron's wishes, the three older kids and I left our house today at 2 p.m. after waiting around all day long for Emmett to go down for his afternoon nap. Since I knew that it would be very difficult to take a baby out to the island for the afternoon and evening, I decided to go later in the day so that I could leave Emmett home with Ron who was able to get his day's worth of work done by the time he woke up from his afternoon nap. The three kids and I then drove out to Port Orchard where we met up with Chris and his family an hour later. We drove down to his new property where they are currently building their new house so that we could hop in his little boat that he now keeps moored right off of his beach. Since this boat is so small, we had to make two trips out to the island. Chris and Natalee were kind enough to let my kids and I go out in the first group so that we could get an extra 30 minutes on the island while Chris went back to pick up the rest of the group. We then spent a glorious 3 hours running around on this beloved island of ours soaking up the sun, breathing in the fresh air, and playing in the sand before roasting hot dogs for dinner. We had to pack up and leave the island by 7:15 so that we could get home for Emmett's bedtime by 8:30 p.m. Although I know that we were technically breaking the rules, it just felt so good to break out and go spend a few fun hours outside with my brother and his family!
Lia and Ella sitting on some drift wood waiting for Chris, Natalee, Brynn, Riley, and Trenton to arrive on the island.
Logan walking down the beach at low tide. As you can see in the picture, there was NO one on the island besides a few people that came onto the beach for a few minutes from their sailboat moored off of the shore. We basically had the entire place to ourselves which was amazing.
The three kids posing on a big, dead tree that had washed ashore some time this winter.
A close-up of my cuties.
Although it is hard to see, this is a picture of Logan and Trenton riding the giant, seesaw that someone made out of a long piece of driftwood.
A picture of the giant, bald eagle I spotted on the top of a very tall tree. A few minutes later, another bald eagle landed on the tree, but I didn't get a picture of it. It was pretty cool to see the two of them sitting side by side together.
Logan, Trenton, and Lia playing at the water's edge.
Brynn, Ella, and Lia riding on the other seesaw we found off the beach.
Two sisters at play!
Logan playing in the sand.
Lia putting her toes in the soft sand!
Mama and her kiddos.
Another shot of us before eating dinner and leaving the island. I heart Blake Island.
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