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obx vacation (part five)


Finally made it to the last post in my vacation series. Thanks for reading along with all of our adventures.

I’ll start where I left off in the last post. 
We had just gotten done with “the best beach day ever” and went back to the house for dinner before we headed off to the sand dunes for another sunset. Can anyone see, from reading these posts, why I am still recovering from vacation? We enjoyed getting to see and do everything..but it sure is exhausting.

3 boys walking in sand

 

sand dunes look like desert

 

sunset over the ocean

 

sunset 2

 

sunset 3

 

toddler and little sister

 

sunset 4

Our grand plan the next day was to go to the kite festival after breakfast. The sand dunes are not very fun to walk on during the day…even when the temperature isn’t too bad. I’m talking like mid-70’s…gorgeous, perfect weather! But our feet were burning as we trekked through the sand. You think we would have remembered this from our last trip, but I guess we had to re-learn our lesson. This outing was so not pleasant. Hot sand, burning feet, crabby toddler who kept sitting in the sand and saying “don’t wanna walk,” and to top it off….no wind. No wind=no kites. We hiked all the way the dunes to find out that the winds weren’t strong enough to get the big kites out yet. At this point, we were ready to just go back to the house. But not before I got a cute picture of Liam by the water.

boy looking at water
toddler boy sleeping in chair

Evangeline and Kingston took naps while the rest of us took some time to relax. But the later it got, the more we were pushing it to try the kite festival again before it ended. Liam still wanted to go so I asked him if he’d rather go with me or daddy. He chose me 🙂 So we had a little date. We parked much closer this time and we wore our flip flops. It made for a much more enjoyable time.

kite festival at sand dunes
boy watching dragon kite

 

octopus kite

 

Liam got a little kite flying lesson. Now he’s ready to buy one!
boy learning how to fly kite

 

Out of all the kites, the rainbow kites were his favorites
boy flying kite

 

I was kind of partial to the giant flying panda
cool giant panda kite

 

boy and cool kites

 

mom and boy

After dinner, we headed out to the beach for a walk at sunset. We brought a bucket to collect seashells. We filled that thing. This was my favorite part of our vacation. Perfect weather, perfect beautiful sky, lots of seashells, and the absolute perfect lighting for pictures! I wanted to get a picture of each of us with the ocean in the background. 

don roberts
jessica roberts
boy wearing hat
cute smile
toddler boy smiling
but poor Evangeline never got out of that backpack–and she actually left the house with no bow! If you know me, that never happens. I was pretty sad.
cute baby girl

 

boys looking for seashells

 

cute toddler boy

 

seashell with a hole
young boy showing off seashell

 

toddler showing seashell

 

it’s like a ‘hidden picture’ game. can you see it?
camouflage sand crab

 

boy running from ocean waves

 

I have no clue who these men are. But I loved the fisherman vibe for this picture
black and white picture two fisherman

 

toddler jumping

 

liam 3

 

kingston 5

 

pier on the ocean

 

under the pier

 

sunset at pier

 

american flag at pier

 

cotton candy sky
I wish I could relive that night. It was amazing. The whole trip was amazing. Thank you for letting me share our trip with you! And thanks again to Eileen for making this trip possible!

 

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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!