The farm-Halloween-from Santa
December 30, 2010
September 19, 2010
On the road...again
With packed carseats and buckled bags-we were off to see NC! First stop, Charlotte. What a beautiful city! Charlotte has the charm of a historic small town and the energy of a bustling modern day city-a great mix! We took the kids to a fun hands-on science museum, The Discovery Place, the Panthers stadium-the high-light of the trip for both kids (Jack still lists it as his "best part of today"), an Irish festival and the NASCAR hall of fame (not that we're NASCAR fans or anything-it just comes with the territory). A few weekends later we went to Asheville in the mountain region of the state and WOW! Breathtaking! My best gal is coming out for a visit at the end of next month when the colors are suppose to be at their peak. I can't even imagine a more beautiful place to see an eastern fall-I can't wait! It turns out I was so into our trip to Asheville I didn't take a single picture while there! The only photo I captured was the one of Jack and Adam next to the vintage police car. While traveling up to the mountains we stopped for lunch in a cute small town and drove around a bit. The town was oddly familiar and when we saw a guy getting ready to wash this cool, old cop car we decided to stop and have a chat. It turns out we were in the town that inspired Mayberry, as in the "Andy Griffith Show." In a few weeks the town will host Mayberry Days, an annual event with a parade and festival-I guess we will probably hit the road for that too!
PS: I really need to hand the camera to Adam once in awhile so that it is documented that I actually was there!
September 14, 2010
You are my sunshine
I still have more summer pictures to share...I have been terrible at blogging lately. As we make our way into fall (even though it was a sweltering 93 today) I have been thinking about how much the kids have grown in the past few months. Jack is drawing pictures that actually look like what they are suppose to (the one above is a sunny day at the park), can completely dress himself from top to bottom and sets the table for dinner. Isla LOVES to sing (though you only know the song by the melody-not her words), fishes her shoes out and sits patiently to have them strapped on and is little miss independent with the "big" kids at the park. They are so much fun! Still to come: shots from our weekend get-aways-Charlotte and Asheville.
August 06, 2010
Back to the Beach
We headed back to the beach for a little R&R! I spent the first hour child-proofing and since it was our second visit, I already knew what needed to be gathered and hauled off to the closet. What I didn't expect was Isla to land eye first into the nightstand... My tough little girl didn't shed a tear over the incident so I was SHOCKED when, within seconds her little eye turned black and blue. If this it what it is like to be a second child, I can't even imagine what our third will look like! Aside from a few second glances from strangers and the occasional, "Oh no! What happened sweetheart?" the eye didn't slow us down a bit. We spent most of our time down at the beach, or daydreaming about owning our own beach house someday while poking around the island. We walked around the picturesque coastal towns of Beaufort and Moorehead City and visited the NC Maritime Museum. This area is called the "Graveyard of the Atlantic," and is said to have more than 1000 shipwrecks along it's coastline-and to Jack's delight-many pirate ships. We took a tour of Fort Macon (a definite milestone of getting older-visiting a historic site of your own free will)and spent an evening at the Aquarium for Shark Night. We miniature golfed, played at local parks and ate yummy seafood. On our way home, we stopped for a few hours in New Bern-another charming coastal town. We had lunch at a great Amish restaurant, drank Pepsi at the pharmacy it was created in and watched boats return to the harbor.
July 11, 2010
July 06, 2010
Costal Living had an article on the best places to watch fire works and as luck would have it-Wilmington made the list! We LOVE Wilmington and are always looking for reasons to visit-so this worked out PERFECT. Fireworks and pizza at the Cape Fear River on Sunday and sunshine and hot dogs at Wrightsville beach on Monday. The trip was short but oh-so-sweet.
June 20, 2010
Father's Day
The kids' father's day project, (Jack even helped with cutting out the fish he painted)! We wish all the great dad's in our life a wonderful day. We love you!
June 09, 2010
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