Our Beach Vacation

We were very lucky to have a beach house rented for one whole week this year. The house was at the Outer Banks and it was ocean front. It was a great little house and we had a blast. My mom and my brother joined us. Emma absolutely loved the beach and the water this time. We were often on the beach by 8am or 8:30am due to Emma waking up by 6am everyday and asking for "water, water". We were lucky enough to see a couple of sunrises due to being awake so early. We had great weather for our trip and did not have any rain. Emma also loved this beach because dogs are allowed on the beach and Emma is obsessed with dogs. Luckily there were two very kid friendly dogs on the beach that Emma could hug and kiss.







The huge crab that was in our backyard...



Emma surfing on the boogie board...

We had to be very careful with Emma because she kept wanting to run into the ocean!

Abby made the trip with us...

We played with Bubbles daily. Emma loves to blow the bubbles herself.


Here are Dad and A.D. (Uncle Dave) in the water.

Here is the turtle that Dad built...

A.D. and Dad playing bocce ball.

Here is Dad flying our Elmo kite.

The view from our back deck...

We visited the NC Aquarium in Manteo. I think we made it through at a record speed of 10 minutes because Emma was running from one thing to another. She especially loved the otters and the turtles.