Memorial Day Weekend

We left last Thursday after John got off work for the beach. It was so nice to be at the beach in under three hours! We are used to driving to the gulf so this short drive was amazing! Our neighbors, the Ainsworths, rented a house with us. I haven't been to an east coast beach since high school and remembered it very rocky and kind of dirty looking. The sand was definitely not like Destin or Orange Beach, but I thought it was fine - especially to be so close to home. We had a great time. It's nice to find an entire family that yours gets along with. John and Jeff work together, Rebecca and I are friends, and our kids get along well, too. We came home on Memorial Day, and again was just amazed at how close we live to the beach! We left around 10:00 am, stopped for lunch, and we were home before 1:30. It was a much needed, relaxing, fun, long weekend!

It was cool Friday morning, so we went to lunch and made a quick grocery run before heading down to the beach. My girls love Logan!

This girl loves playing in the sand.

me and Rebecca

Meyers wouldn't even put her toes in the water last year. She got super brave and got in this trip.

They loved attempting to boogey board.

Only picture I got of all four of us the entire trip!

Laying out like mommy:)

One day, all four kids napped on the beach. It was amazing!

just doing some ballet on the beach - no big deal

Making Reid play princess wands. Ha!

sweet face covered in sand!

I think she's wishing I would stop taking pictures with her looking into the sun!

Meyers, Emery and Logan

cuties

my monkeys

sweet girls love the beach like mommy and daddy

We attempted to bury the kids and turn them into mermaids like we did last summer, but my artistic ability is not quite there.

We've lived in NC for 9 months, but we just had our first Cook Out on the drive home. It was delicious and should probably only be a once a year thing with the amount of calories we consumed:)