Dauphin Island, my New Idea of Paradise

We've been back from vacation for well over a month now and I'm really late on getting these pictures up, but I feel like I need to share them anyway because we absolutely LOVED this place!  Dauphin Island, AL is my new idea of paradise...spent an entire week with my family in a beautiful house with lots of time spent sitting on the beach, hunting for seashells, cooking, flying kites, fishing, playing bocce and relaxing...all in honor of my grandmothers 80th Birthday!  Hopefully we will get back there again some day. 

Beautiful house on the gulf!

 Best porch in the world

Porch

 Living Room

Looking into kitchen

 We rented bikes to get around on the island

 Burkett's new power kite

 Went shell hunting every morning

 Mom, Dad, and Rusti

 Lots and lots of shells for jewelry & buttons!

 Pretty colors

 We shaw sharks, dolphins, and rays!

Back porch

 Jack & the lady fish

Family on the beach

 Grandma's Birthday Cake

 Grandma's Birthday Cupcakes

 Family

 Grandma modeling the apron I made her!

 Apron

Check out that chevron, inspired by the chevron apron that was recently in Modern Patchwork.