Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Outer Banks 2009!



Isn't it funny that whenever you have the most blogs you want to post, you don't post the blogs because that means your life is crazy and you don't have TIME to post?
Well, that's been our May. It's been full of fun adventures, but FULL nonetheless! So I'm finally posting our Outer Banks trip, which was the BIG adventure for May. We took advantage of our last opportunity to vacation with some of our good dental school buddies, since next year we'll all be GRADUATED by this time! Wahoo!
7 families shared a wonderful beach house with a 2-minute walk to the beach. We had some bad weather, a heated pool that was anything but heated, and some other minor setbacks, but the trip was extremely fun and full of memorable adventures (see below).



A few pictures to add to the repertoire...

A Promise Kept beach house in Corolla, NC (the uppermost city on the Outer Banks island)


Our movie night--
Watching Taken on Blu-Ray, rented from a movie store 45 minutes away: $8.
Cramming all 14 adults into the theater room, 2 per chair: numb limbs and sore bums.
Sharing 8 bags of popcorn (cleaned off in the first 10 minutes of previews): $3
Enjoying every minute of it: Priceless.

One year and all these boys will be dentists!
Don't worry...we didn't have THAT much fun...they're IBC's ;)

Hangin' out Outer Banks style.Not quite the Cape Hatteras light house, but a light house nonetheless!

Duck Donuts! mmmm... Krispy Kreme ain't got nothin' on these bad boys!

Tucker and Kylea: A Hallmark card in the making!

Cooper one of the VERY few times he was not consuming sand (but you can still see remnants of the prior consumed sand on his mouth...a common sight that week). Do you have any idea how hard it is to clean sandpoop off a bum...every poopy diaper....for an entire week??

I couldn't help but get in on the joy of the "big sand box" with all of the kids...especially when you feel like you own the entire beach!

Thanks to all who were there! It was a week of fun times, good memories, and great friends!
(Right to Left: Rudy and Melissa, Jon and Lis Rucker, Mike and Christen Milburn, Sam and Emily Waddups, Christian and Amanda Peck, Nate and Rebecca Sherman, Tyler and Megan Williams)

4 comments:

Ginny said...

my favs: rudy's facial hair, tucker's face on the porch shot, and of course the "big sandbox"!!! i'm so glad you had a good time!

Sarah said...

OH...beach...jealous!!! And lots of memories of us at the beach when we were probably Tucker's age! :) Crazy!

Brooke Soderholm (crazysodfam) said...

Looks like a great time! Fun tradition!

Lisa/Scott said...

Looks like so much fun! We're leaving this weekend to do the beach house thing on Long Beach Island and I'm already excited, but these pictures make me MORE excited AHHHHH!