What a fun week!!

It is places like Outer Banks that make you realize that a Divine hand went into creating this world. It was so beautiful. We had so much fun. Here is what we did. With a few pictures.

We spent most of out time on the beach with all of our wonderful friends. Carter brought a soccer ball and we had a good game of soccer for goal posts we used flip flops.

Kenna had a ball playing with all of her friends. She loved wearing her "suitkinni" on the beach. Her and her friends played in the sand and water for hours. Her good friend Claire and her made a beautiful castle with tons of help from Claire's and Thomas' dads.

I took a few of them one evening on a seashell hunt and they found so really good ones as well as a few jellyfish that had washed up to the shore. Even Bryn tried out t he ocean and found it okay but preferred to sleep on the shore to the sounds of the waves under the umbrella than in the water. We also spent a good amount of time in the pool if the kids were awake they were playing hard.

We went to see the light houses, I thought that was neet as I had never seen one before. The ones that we saw were the Hatteras which is the tallest and Boddie Island which is the oldest. We also went to the Wright Brothers National Memorial. It was very interesting to see all the research that they did to figure out how to make men fly.We all played hard and played the kids harder. After dinner every night the kids would all be put to bed early. I don't think anyone besides the infants took naps during the day. Then all of the parents would play. Xbox was a favorite among the husbands as well as football on the beach and crabbing (they actually caught a few and I have no idea were I put the pictures). While the girls made headbands and bows and made braclets and binki holders out of beads. We played tons of fun games and went for runs on the beach. Something about running on the beach makes you run farther and faster it must be the surroundings and elevation. We all had so much fun that plans are already in the works for next year. We had 12 couples, and 17 children, and 1 very happy dog. Everyone had an absolute blast. We love our friends and the support they are to us here in Philly. We also appretiate our families in Idaho, Utah, and Kansas, who are supporting us in every way that they think of.