4th Fun!

We really had a fun 4th of July this year.  The kids were lucky enough to be at the beach all week and I was lucky enough to not have a job in corporate finance this year which meant I got to take the 4th off too!!  In fact, with it falling on a Thursday this year, Matt and I also took Friday off and had a super long weekend.

On the actual 4th, we went with NaNa, Pops, Uncle Matt and Cecily to a shoal behind Bird Shoal. It was perfect and not crowded and the kids could run and run and run.  We grilled burgers, both beef and venison, and hot dogs.

Little Sand Fiddlers

Will skim boarding

Uncle Matt skim boarding

Swimming boy

 

Avery and Uncle Matt….these 2 love each other so much.

What a fun day!

The next day Pops had to work so we headed to my childhood beach haunt, Oceanana. Mom had taken the kids here all week so they were old pros. There was this nice little sandbar and it gave the kids plenty of space to play and not have the big waves crash on them the whole time.

Building sand castles and water slides and a water elevator, which is an interesting thing to build out of sand.

 

My little surfer dude. He had SOO much fun doing this all week.

Sissy spent a good portion of the day perfecting her hole.

Some cool shots of the pier and down the beach.

A beach weekend isn’t complete with out some General Store ice cream.

When we got back to Raleigh, it was time to celebrate Uncle Gray’s birthday!!!