I had never been to the OBX and thought it was just beautiful. The drive is looooooong, but gorgeous with sweeping views of countryside and lots of big bridges over bodies of water. We even made a stop for boiled peanuts (yep, raised in the South I was) on the way. While I was there, we took the big kids (the other Ammon fam minus Uncle B was there) and Ethan to the Hatteras lighthouse and climbed the 208 steps. So fun! Poor Aunt Katie was back at the beach house with a fever. Elias had actually had one himself on the way down and now Ethan has one. Yucky virus?! Who knows!
Ethan wasn't so sure about the beach...his feelings were pretty mixed, I'd say. We skipped his morning nap one day to go with the kids, but that was disastrous. You'll see from the pictures that he was wailing quite a bit. But when Christopher took him down by himself, he was fine, though not making any exuberant runs into the water.
Aunt Katie and I even got a few glorious minutes on the beach by ourselves (I got more...she had been resting from her fever at the house). What a great time that was-we never get to catch up anymore so that was REALLY nice!
On the day I left, we took the boys up the road and made a few tourist stops at the Bodie Island lighthouse, Jockey's Ridge State Park (with the ginormous sand dunes) and the Wright brothers' memorial. Then I headed back to enjoy a few days in the house by myself (no, not telling which part of the week was more fun). The boys continued to enjoy cousin and grandparent time, along with a ferry ride with Gigi (C's great-grandmother). They came home yesterday to a clean house...you can imagine how long that lasted!
We celebrated Father's Day with a few gifts for Daddy- including a signed book about Durham and a cool pictoral/historial Bible textbook thing. We ended the day today with a kickball-themed youth group picnic at Whipoorwill Park. Daddy even made a couple of plays with Ethan giggling in his arms. What a guy!
On that note, here a few of my favorites from the set of beach pictures...be sure to visit our Shutterfly site to see more. Click HERE.
