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OBX vacation (part two)

You know how I’ve mentioned taking a lot of pictures during vacation? The final tally ended up being about 1600 pictures. That’s a lot to go through. An even bigger task is to narrow it down to an acceptable amount for a blog post. I’m not sure what “acceptable” is, but I’m pretty sure I often break the rules.

Anyway, if you read part one of our vacation, you know that I left off with our trip to the Wright Brothers Memorial. After that, we headed back to the house for lunch and then packed up to go to the beach.
You’ll notice this post is packed with mostly pictures of Evangeline, Don, and me. I didn’t realize until looking through all of them. On the beach, the camera stayed by our stuff for the most part. Oh well. The good news is that the boys had an awesome time with the grandparents.

Enjoy a multitude of pictures of my sweet baby girl 🙂

her swim suit and hat–love!

the boys were able to play with the grandparents while Don and I sat back and relaxed with Evangeline.

she loved eating sand!

that face!

we took far too many pictures of birds during the week. I will not make you suffer through all of them.

After a couple hours at the beach, we headed back to the house to get cleaned up and have dinner. My dad grilled burgers for us! Then Eileen took us to see the sunset from just a short walk away from her house. The boys wanted to stay back at the house and watch Netflix with Grandpa. So we just took little Miss with us this time.

Thank you, Eileen, for showing us this beautiful location! It was such a great spot to see the sun setting. And for dealing with us turning every situation into a photoshoot.

Next post will include a sunrise date with Don, a trip to Festival Park, and another trip to the beach–with a rainbow!

June 13, 2014

Blog, Family, kids, obx vacation, vacation

OBX vacation (part one)

So as I’ve mentioned before, we took tons of pictures during our vacation. I will be breaking our trip up into 3-4 posts. In case you missed them, I posted all my iphone pictures and our vacation video already.

It’s hard to believe that so much time has passed since we left for vacation. You spend so much time counting down to a big event, and before you know it, it zips by. I always expect that to happened, but I’m amazed each time.
Back in September, we had visited the Outer Banks for a few days. We absolutely loved it and were anxious to visit again.

Since it is a 16 hour drive, we broke it up into two days. On day 1, as we were a few hours outside of Nashville, I texted my brother just to let him know we were going to be passing by him. He asked us to stop by. So we made a very quick stop to see him. It was a good visit…we hadn’t seen him since Christmas. He showed us his band’s new music video (shameless plug!) Check out Greek Fire’s video–I love it!

she was not always this cute and innocent while traveling

We made it about half way on the first day. The second day, we were able to get an earlier start. We arrived at the beach house just in time for dinner. My dad and Eileen were with us for the first few days of our trip. Eileen was so kind to allow us to use her house (again) on this trip and to feed us while we were there. It was greatly appreciated! After dinner, there was a little bit of time to run down to the beach before the sun set. When I say “run”, I actually mean that we drove. The house is about a mile away.

really long bridges connect the islands to the mainland. they are pretty neat

I don’t get very many pictures with my kids unless I specifically ask someone to take one. So these pictures with Evangeline are special

I was afraid that she wouldn’t enjoy the beach. She loved every single bit. From the ocean, to the sand, to being rinsed off and bathed afterwards.

Kai and Kingston are a little more scared of the water. But they love to run as close to it as they can before they get scared and then run away. They played that game so many times during our trip

and Liam was so excited to collect tons and tons of seashells (his favorite part of our trip)

The next morning, we woke up to the delicious smell of my dad’s famous biscuits and gravy. Famous to my family, at least. Kitty Hawk, where the Wright Brothers flew the first plane, is down the road from Eileen’s house. So we headed there first. It’s pretty incredible to think how much air travel has improved since that first flight.