Gingerbread Houses

I don't know what part is more fun about decorating gingerbread houses: making the house, sampling all the varieties of Christmas candies, or watching the kids try to hold themselves back from devouring all that lies in front of them! What a fun time!

 

Bryce's house, of course!

 

 

Bye Bye Beachy Keen

Overall, our trip was great! The waves were fun, the company was entertaining, and the drive home was car sick free!

 

 

Happy Birthday, James!!!

James turned two at the Outerbanks! He did great blowing out the candle and it was out before the song was over. He was kind of looking around like, "Why is everyone still singing?" But he loved the attention . . .

 

And the cake!

 

Opening presents after getting home.

 

Jockey's Ridge Sand Dunes

The weather was perfect, so we stopped by the sand dunes to play around a bit.

 

The kids loved playing in the soft sand!

 

 

 

More Wright Bros. Memorial

watching the planes take off from nearby airport.

 

Here was where we could see where the 4 sucessful flights of December (14th?), 1903 took place. Caleb ran out to each marker to see if he could run faster than the plane flew. (The markers showed distance and time of the flights).

 

 

Currituck Lighthouse

 

While we were there, we checked out this nearby lighthouse (just the boys went while mom waited with sleepy Lucy)

 

Even James walked all 214 steps on his own!

 

Getting to the top was a lot higher than it seemed!

 

It was totally worth it though!

Beach Trip

Happy Thanksgiving! We spent our Thanksgiving week in the Outerbanks, NC! We stayed with some friends in a beach house right on the beach! The weather was actually really nice.

 

 

 

One of Caleb and Lucy's favorite things was collecting huge beautiful seashells along the coast.