July 16, 2025
We Are The Hansons Our Trip To The Beach Hanson Style
Grab your flip-flops and sunscreen because the Hansons are hitting the beach — in true chaotic, lovable, big-family fashion! In this sun-soaked episode, we take you behind the scenes of our family’s wild beach adventure. From packing twelve bags for one afternoon to sand in places sand should never be, it’s everything you’d expect (and more) from a Hanson vacation. Hear how we kept the kids entertained, what snacks survived the car ride, and why a beach umbrella became our greatest nemesis. Laughter, mishaps, and heartwarming moments await as we share the highs, the lows, and the sunscreen fails of Our Trip to the Beach: Hanson Style.
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Hey everyone, it's maam. Welcome back to We are the Hansens.
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Today we're diving into one of our favorite family traditions.
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Our trips to the beach is always an adventure full
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of sand, snacks, sunscreen, and a whole lot of chaos.
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So grab a towel and maybe a juice box and
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settle in. Packing for a big family beach day feels
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like prepping for a camping trip, a grocery hall, and
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a trython all at once. Somehow, even when we pack
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fifteen towels, they vanish or someone brings a bath towel
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instead of a beach tall Every single time, there's the
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actual food, and then there are the snacks that keep
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the peace. The ratio of chips to sandwiches. Let's just
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say chips win for sure. No trip starts without someone
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yelling where's my other flip flop? That is an everyday thing.
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It takes strategy to pack our vehicle with big coolers
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in the back, beach toys on top, and the don't
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squish my chips warning from every row. The ride to
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the beach is always allowed in the best way, singing, laughing,
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and someone always asking are we there yet? Ten minutes
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into the drive, I hear I have to pee. Of
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course you do, sweetheart. Sometimes Dad says let's take the
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scenic rout, but we all know that means he missed
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his turn. The moment we see the water, everyone cheers.
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The vehicle goes from chaos to joy in one second flat.
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There's a science to finding the perfect beach spot shade
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view and not too close to the splash. Blankets, chairs, umbrellas, snacks.
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Everyone gets a job, or at least that's the theory.
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The magical moment when the kids toss their shoes and
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sprint full speed into the water, squealing the whole way.
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The chairs are unfolded, the drinks are opened, and we
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take a second to appreciate that calm before the first
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I'm hungry. There's always one kid who starts water fights
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and one who cries because their face gout wet. Unicorn sharks, donuts.
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Our family could supply a floaty rental stand. Why does
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everything taste like sand at the beach? No one knows,
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but we eat it anyway. We've got future architects in
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the family. Bridges towers until someone steps on it when
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they're building the sand castle. To make a sand kingdom.
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Every beach trip features at least one dramatic sibling argument
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over a shovel, a float, or who gets the last
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juice box. We call that the sibling showdown. Skipping rocks
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and skipping naps. Some kids try to skip rocks, others
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skip nap time. Neither goes very well. Watching our grandkids
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take their first brave steps into the water is magic.
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Dad's lifeguard lookout duty. Well he may not have a whistle,
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but Dad's got a hawkeye on the water like a
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true beach commander. My beach bag of wonders, band aids,
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some block snacks, white bees, toys, books. My beach b
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is bottomless because when you have all these kids, you
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need to have a lot of stuff. Trying to get
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a cute photo queue, the wind, the squinting, and the
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one kid who always does bunny ears. It's a never
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ending battle. Those big sibling moments when they carry a
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little one back to the towel, help them float, or
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hold their hand, pure heart melt. My kids are always
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good about that. They always help the little ones. They
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try and teach them how to swim. Our youngest Anelin
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learn how to swim because her older brother helped teach her.
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We call it a buffet on the sand. From peanut
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butter salm to watermelon slices. Beach lunches are their own
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brand of delicious. The great juice pout shortage who drink
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all the apple juice we may never know. Seagulls dramatic,
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loud and bold enough to steal a sandwich if you blink,
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because they're like scrounging for food. It's almost like they
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know that our food is yummy. After eating, we stretch
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out on towels, listen to the waves and pretend the
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kids aren't stepping on our legs with their dirty, sandy feet.
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No child wants onscreen, so every child fights with us
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to get it put on, and we have to obviously
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do it multiple times, because you know most of them
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only last an hour in the water. Every child needs it.
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The queue squirming and whining. They search with so much
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hope hunting for shells. Look found a sparkly rock, and
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we treasure every one of them. We take home more
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rocks and shells than I think anybody ever has. I
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mean buckets. If the kids can get it into the
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vehicle without us knowing, we'll have buckets full of them.
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Nature's playground. If we go to the ocean and catch crabs,
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sometimes we catch crawdad in our beach, weird seaweed. It's
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like a science class with splashes, you know, beach games
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with siblings, or if our cousins go, it's frisbee, water tag,
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sand soccer, marco polo, all chaos, but all so much fun.
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Between the wind, salt sun. Our beach hair becomes a
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wild thing, especially mine because I got natural curls. My
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daughter Morgan, her hair turns into a big fluff because
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she's got natural curls. And the weather, the humidity, loves us.
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Because of that. There's always a moment to pull one
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child aside, walk by the water and just talk heart
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to heart. Somehow, something always disappears. Always are losing stuff, bucket, goggle, shoe,
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It's part of the game. Late afternoon, the sun shifts,
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and so do we Tells turn into blankets for resting.
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By now everyone is a little pruny and a lot slower,
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but still begging for one more time in the water.
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The golden light over the lake is breathtaking and we
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all pause to soak it in. Late in the day,
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we team up and we do sand sculptures, castles, creatures,
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initials in the sand, you name it, we do that.
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These are the things we do to make our memories.
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A lot of times our kids say can we stay forever?
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At least one kid always asks, and honestly, we all
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wish we could packing up the sand sticks forever, no
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matter how many towels, no matter how many times the
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kids go to the water and wash their feet off
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and obviously run back to their shoes to put their
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shoes on, you know, because you're trying to keep the
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sand off your feet. The sand still goes over your
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shoes unless you're putting on tennis shoes. But even then,
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sand is still hard to get out. My younger kids
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come home probably with ten pounds of sand in their hair.
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It's not fun trying to get out, and honestly, it
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takes more than probably five baths to get all the
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sand out of their hair, and we probably still have
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some sand in there. So it's definitely not easy, you know,
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as crazy as it gets packing a vehicle full of
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kids hauling beach gear like we're moving across the country
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and chasing toddlers who somehow managed to cover themselves in
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wet sand and under one minute. These trips are the
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ones will remember forever. They're the snapshots that live in
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our hearts. The laughter, the water fights and sandy sandwiches,
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they're all part of the story. We're riding together, one
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beach day at a time, and I wouldn't change it
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for anything, nothing, because those memories. Yeah, we might not
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remember everything we did at the beach, but the most
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important memory that we do remember are the ones that
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will never forget. And I want all of my kids
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to create those memories and I want them to carry
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on with how we did it to their own family,
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because that's important because your kids will always look back
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and say, you know what, I remember my parents doing that,
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or I remember my grandparents doing that, and that's supposed
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to be how it is. Thanks for spending time with
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me as I shared some of our favorite moments from
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our beach adventures. Whether you've got one kid or thirteen,
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whether you're beach is a lake, a backyard, kiddie pool,
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or just a blanket on the grass, what matters is
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being together, unplugged and present. If you enjoyed today's episode,
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don't forget to follow us on our Facebook page, go
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over tell YouTube and subscribe. You can also leave me
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a review wherever you're listening. And if you have your
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own beach traditions or funny family memories, I'd love to
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hear about them. You can send me a message on
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our We Are the Hansen's Facebook page. You can also
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send me an email on our We Are the Hansen's
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Show at gmail dot com. Until next time, I'm Maya
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and from our big, beautiful, chaotic family to yours, go
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make some memories, Splash big, laugh loud, and don't forget
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the sunscreen. We'll see you soon. We are the Hansens
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