Beach June 2009

Finally, I've had time to get on here and add some pictures. We just returned this afternoon from our beach trip to Ocean Isle Beach! We had a blast! Every year we go with my parents, grandmother, niece and in-laws. We've vacationed together like this for the last 10 years or so. Robby and I are so very fortunate that our parents get along and that we can vacation together and even celebrate the holidays together! Everyone just does their own thing, no pressure to be here or there and please everyone! Every summer we get a condo and all pile in and spend the week together. What great times we've had and wonderful memories we've made! This was our first year at Ocean Isle and we loved it, it was nice and clean, no busy, crazy streets and not so commercialized. We drove into Myrtle to shop at the outlets and Broadway at the Beach, but other than that we stayed on the island. Just the ocean, pool and the nice ocean breeze! Abby was amazed by all the shells, OIB by far had the most shells of any beach we've ever been to. The first couple of days that's all she did was collect, and collect and collect more shells! After the love of shells wore off she realized that she could catch little fish and crabs with the fishnet and that was her next adventure, you should have seen the amazement in her eyes the first time she caught one of those tiny little fish! Katie finally came to love the ocean, all these years she has only wanted to be in the pool, but this year she really enjoyed riding the waves on the boogie board. Don't get me wrong, she still LOVES the pool, but would at least tolerate being on the beach awhile. All the girls (Katie, Abby & Savannah) put on a fashion show for us on Thursday night, it was really cute, Katie and Abby modeled Savannah's clothes. I remember doing that with my cousins in the summer at my grandmother's house when I was in middle/high school; it is hilarious to look back now at the videos! Now I can use the pictures and video of my girls to blackmail them when they are teenagers like my parents did me! Like showing my boyfriends, etc... No I wouldn't do that to them, would I? haha!

Hope you enjoy the pictures!