Amelia Island aka longest picture post ever!

We spent a week on Amelia Island in June. Jared’s office has a townhome in Amelia Island Plantation and all the attorneys are allowed to use it for free. Fabulous! MoMo went with us and all of these pictures are from her camera. I didn’t take one photo while we were there. Sick on vacation is no fun!

This is the view from our back porch. Beautiful!

The first day we went to the beach it was cloudy and windy but great weather for those of us Healds with pale skin and red hair!

I love the above picture of Matney with all that hair!

Whee!!!


We met this turtle on the beach. He was a lot bigger in person that he looks in this picture. I thought the girls would be fascinated by him but they really didn’t seem to care.


There were three kids people ready to dig in the sand!

LOVE these sisters!

The next morning we took our chairs and were ready to spend a lot of time in the water.

Too bad Halle Kate wasn’t loving the beach. See the pic below? She’s pinching Matney. Nice, isn’t she? It wasn’t long before she ended up back in the house while Matney stayed at the beach.


Building sand castles.

Matney and Daddy ended up with lots of father daughter time during the week. Halle Kate did not like the beach, she said it was too loud and stayed in the house each morning while Matney went to play.

See all the shells? You for sure needed to wear your shoes!

No sand castle is complete without a princess.

They met a guy fishing on the beach and he let Matney see what he caught. And every time you think that you’re just wading in the ocean and all the “critters” aren’t swimming around your feet be reminded of these pictures. Here’s the shark and sting ray he caught just standing on the beach with a normal fishing pole. These have been added to my “reasons I’d prefer to stay in the room with HK!” list.

One day in town HK found a big blue shrimp buddy to take a picture with!

Just for our memory down the road – A week at the beach is a long time for a 3 and 4 year old to be away from home! Matney loved it more and more each day. She had a great time in the water and building castles. Halle Kate really didn’t like beach, she said it was too loud and she didn’t want to be in the water. Amelia Island shuts down at 5pm. Remember that next year when we are looking for places to eat dinner. I was so very sick (cough/fever/etc) when we left on this trip and 5 weeks pregnant so I couldn’t take any medicine. By the time we left to come home I was feeling better head wise but Jared had what I’d had and I was now throwing up pregnant sick. It was not my best vacation and I was soooo thankful to be home. We even left a day early. Amelia Island is beautiful and we are so thankful for a free week at the beach. Hopefully next year no one will be sick, Halle Kate will enjoy it more, I FOR SURE won’t be pregnant and Evelyn will be a good traveler!