Beach Portraits: Here's What Everybody Really Wanted to Be Doing!

I was very pleased with how all twenty-two members of the family took a relaxed and cooperative attitude toward all the photo taking. But once the formal stuff was over, it was obvious that they'd been dreaming of playing in the sand the entire time.

Here's Uncle Ripp with his two kiddos:


Then the cousins discovered an abandoned sandcastle. They started their own digging and building projects:


And while these shots aren't really good, the kiddos had lots of fun doing it: