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our vacation (in iphone pictures)


We arrived home late last night from our Outer Banks vacation. I feel like a zombie today but if I don’t get started on these blog posts, I will never get them done. Instead of sifting through our (approximately) 28gb of pictures/videos, I’m going through my nearly 500 iphone pictures first. Let’s just say that I am enjoying photography. 

I’ll be breaking up our trip into a few other posts, but for now–here’s our vacation, in iphone pictures…
***I am giving you fair warning that this post is loaded with pictures!

cool bridge
a quick stop to see Mark
uncle and kids

 

boys with uncle
mom and cute baby

 

dad and baby looking at ocean

 

father daughter on beach
boy on the beach

 

grandpa and boy in ocean

 

beach umbrella

 

mom and baby on beach

 

cute baby playing on beach

 

bird flying in the air

 

grandpa and toddler boy holding hands

 

baby girl sitting on sand

 

sunset on the beach

 

more sunsets

 

drawing hearts in the sand

 

sunset over pier

 

pier 2

 

man on sandy bridge

 

underneath pier

 

little boat on lake

 

fence

 

little boy and baby girl playing in sand

 

dad and 2 boys on beach

 

I didn’t think it was possible to actually relax on the beach with 4 young children. It’s so possible when they all love it.
relaxing on the beach

 

cute baby girl playing in sand

 

toddler boy on beach

 

man floating in the air

 

rainbow over the ocean

 

double rainbow at the beach

 

saltwater taffy

 

kill devils cheeseburger

 

chocolate ice cream cone from kill devils

 

bodie lighthouse

 

big family at lighthouse

 

bodie lighthouse

 

beach in nags head north carolina

 

duck donuts nags head NC

 

3 boys on bench

 

three boys at sand dunes

 

sand dunes at nags head north carolina

 

jumping in the air

 

3 kids walking

 

baby playing in sand

 

sunset 3

 

boy drawing in the sand

 

pink clouds
boats in the dock

 

young mom holding baby in the air

 

family beach time

 

married couple

 

evangeline 5

 

sunset 4

 

boy and reflection in water

 

a date with Liam to the kite festival
boy watching kite

 

octopus kite

 

boy flying kite

 

cool kites

 

mom and boy

 

boys on bridge

 

sunset over pier

 

sunset over houses

 

pier 4

 

chocolate sprinkle donut over womans eye

 

adventure
If you made it this far, congratulations! That was probably far too many pictures for one post. We had an amazing trip–but it’s so good to be home.
 
More posts to come over the next week!
 

 

Blog, Family, kids

Snowmageddon


Ever since Sunday, we’ve been snowed in our house. ‘They’ are calling it Snowmageddon. I’m not sure what the final measurements came to, but I’m pretty sure we got about a foot of snow. Normally, I’m not a big fan of big snow storms. This time, it hit at the perfect time. Don got home from work shortly after it started coming down hard. Since it was Sunday morning, that meant he didn’t have to be back in to work until tonight (Tuesday night.) The boys were so excited when I told them that he was home and sleeping. They kept dancing and singing “Daddy made it home safely!” And Kai kept saying “Yay! Daddy did not get hurted!”

Don brought home some donuts from work. Liam wanted a donut snowman to celebrate the snow day.

boy with donuts
When Kingston eats powdered donuts, it gets everywhere
messy toddler
After breakfast, the boys helped me clean up a bit. I had just bought them each their own brooms and dustpans. They were super excited to use them!
kids with brooms
Here are a couple shots out the back door. This isn’t the final result. But I guess I didn’t take pictures of it.
snow covered deck
snowy deck 2
This little girl is a doll, even with a slightly crusty face
cute baby
We made some snow ice cream for a little snack. I actually never remember trying it before. But I was so pleasantly surprised when I realized it tasted exactly like an S&J’s wedding cake snow cone (my favorite kind!) We had it two days in a row because I loved it so much.
 
 
boy and little brother
boys with snow ice cream
snow ice cream with sprinkles
baby is standing up
We tried the frozen bubble trick that had been circulating the internet. Apparently, bubbles are supposed to “freeze instantly” in temperatures below freezing. Well, Monday was the coldest day in 20 years, (in the negatives) and I can tell you that they did not freeze instantly. It was tricky to even get a bubble to not pop or fly away. But I was determined! It may have turned out better if I had a fancy camera. But the iphone pictures will have to do.
 
frozen bubble
frozen bubble 2
frozen bubble 3
Liam recently told me that his top 5 favorite things to do are hug me, kiss me, snuggle with me, massage my back, and massage my feet. This kid is a charmer.
 
He was making a heart with his hands
mom and boy
mom and two boys
And just for fun, here are a few pictures of Evangeline. She tried a clementine for the first time today and she loved it! I can’t stop taking pictures of her all the time.
 
baby girl eating clementines
evangeline 4
smiling baby
It looks like more snow may be coming our way tomorrow night. So I think we’ll stay in and stay warm for a few more days!