The Beach - 2012

On July 19th, Lynn and Robin arrived at National Airport to join us on our yearly trip to the beach.  We spent Friday and Saturday getting ready and packing our trailer for the trip and then we set off Sunday morning about 10:00 for Southern Shores, North Carolina.  We had a good trip down and arrived at Cap't Frank's for lunch about 1:30.  We just can't start a beach vacation without a  stop there for a great hot dog and fries. 

We moved to a new house this year.  We needed one with a bit more room for all of us.  We stayed at Grammy's Getaway.  It is a large house with 7 bedrooms and 7 and 1/2 baths.  For the first time, the kids all had their own bedrooms - that is two in each of two bedrooms with twin beds for them.  It also gave us room for a bedroom for Katie and Kalani who got married in April of this year.  It was great to have everyone back with us again..




Grammy's Getaway - 115 Beach Highway - just across the street from the ocean.

Everyone enjoyed the pool and we used it everyday.  Great place to clean off the sand from the beach.

The back of the house had a lot of balconies for everyone.

Nicole ahd Hannah enjoy a moment together.

Grandma and the kids snuggling.

Jared and Heather and the girls with their beach buggy.

Evenings were for eating ice cream and such.

Two mermaids at the beach.

Jonathan's family enjoyed a little miniture golf.

Doing some crafts together.

These two got along great and became best buds.

Jax at the beach

Michael and Jonathan enjoying the large waves we had.

Boogie boarding.

Jax strikes a pose.

Jax loved the water this year.

Hannah had her own bed and room with Sophie.

 Jared and Heather suggeseted going on a dolphin tour this year and so most of the group went and saw hundreds of dolphins and had a great learning experience.  The people that do the tour are experts and told a lot about how the dolphins live and how they identify them and follow them each year.

On the dolphin watching cruise.

Heather and Sophie.

 The beach was great this year.  The water was a good temperature and there were some good size waves so everyone enjoyed spending time there.  It was hot, but the water was cool and refreshing so we were there every day.

Jared and Sophie in the waves.

Hannah at the beach.

Katie.

Sophie.

In the pool.

On Wednesday before we went to eat at Jimmy's we got everyone together and took pictures.  What a good looking group this is.   

The shole gang.

The cutest kids in the world.

Katie and Kalani

Robin and Lynn

Heather, Jared, Hannah and Sophie

Nicole, Jonathan, Michael and Jax

Cherry and Mel

Robin and Lynn head out for a bike ride.

Heather and Jared go biking as well.

 Jared brought his wave runners again this year and we all had great fun running them around the sound.  The kids always enjoy that and we are grateful that he is able to have them for us to enjoy.

Jared

Kalani

Michael and Jonathan

Cherry

Nicole and Jax

It was a wonderful trip.  Everyone had a great time.  We ate good food and really had a good rest from the cares of daily life.  We had each family cook a meal one night and each was terrific.  We went to Jimmy's for the sea food buffet and gorged on crab, shrimp and such.  It was just great.  We are looking forward to doing it again next year.