More Vacation Fun

Things you can do at the ocean in no particular order.....

Try to feed the puppy sand.

Catch a tan while listening to tunes.

Let the sound of the ocean waves put you to sleep.

Just dance......

Look for shells.......

and find several sand dollars!

Go fishing with your dad.

Catch a few waves......you're never too old.

More vacation pictures to come soon.......

Footprints in the Sand

Just returned from a weeks vacation to the Outer Banks. We had a really nice time. Of course, you can never fully rest with a toddler but we made wonderful memories. I could never post about our whole trip at once so I've decided that I'm going to post over the next week or so. We camped at our favorite campground, Camp Hatteras. Everyone is so friendly and we always meet the nicest people. This trip we met a couple from Pittsburgh and another from Virginia. Caroline met a little girl who lives in Pinetown, NC. Abby made great friends with a boy from Virginia and a girl from New Jersey. Thank goodness for facebook so we can keep up with our new friends!

During your camp stay, they have activities planned Thursday thru Monday. We decided to participate in Footprints in the Sand. The cost- one dollar. The experience-priceless. Here are the girls getting the sand cast of their foot.

Mattie's footprint was harder since she didn't have enough weight to press down. After pressing, the activity directors sprayed the prints with hairspray and poured in Plaster of Paris.

One hour later, we picked up the girls' feet. Aren't they neat?

And one of my favorite poems, Footprints in the Sand..........

Mini-Vacation

Where have we been? We took a mini-vacation and met up with some of our friends at Camp Hatteras. It is not the primitive hard core camping by any means. The camp has a playground, mini putt putt, 2 pools, hot tub, pond, and beach access. We didn't get to go last year so I was a little worried how Mattie would do now that she is walking and into everything. I just imagined me running all over trying to catch her as she weaved between campers. So I invested in a play yard. Can we say wonderful?!! I love this thing. We use it everywhere. She isn't locked up in it all the time, although she was quite content. She kept herself busy.

She was waiting to catch the beach ball

Eating her cheese puffs all sprawled out.

Mattie loves books! This one is her favorite~she spent a good thirty minutes looking at it. I've got some other cute pics of her in various positions while reading.

sisters

We headed down to Kitty Hawk Kites on our way out. They had a really neat sand sculpture. And yes, this is all real sand. It was huge! I just posted a portion of it.

Caroline

It's only a couple hour drive so we are headed back for a whole week this time. Hoping to get on the beach. I really didn't feel like taking Mattie since it was so windy. They have beach accesses where you can drive your truck on to the beach so I'm sure we'll be doing that some days. Then we plan on visiting the lighthouses and other landmarks that our kids haven't been to yet.