We’ve been back to the beach house a couple of times this spring.

The first time was just us grownups and dogs, and coincided rather nicely with our 1-year anniversary of owning it, so we had a tiny little celebration.

We pretty much just read the whole time. Oh, and we put a puzzle together.

We went back for a blustery spring weekend. The kids were on spring break, so we brought them along too.

Will and Lucy got the run of our cookbooks, and each designed and helped cook a three-course meal for the entire family.

The rain stopped for about an hour, but it was still pretty windy. We went for a walk anyway.

We managed to finish another puzzle (which also had a single, infuriating piece missing). Both kids helped, and we managed to complete it about 5 minutes before we had to tear it apart and drive home.