Outer Banks Vacation 2011

We had a wonderful-- though unfortunately abridged-- vacation down at the Outer Banks of North Carolina at the end of August. Hurricane Irene came through there a couple days before we were scheduled to go down, and OBX was evacuated. We were supposed to go down on the Saturday, but weren't able to get there until the Tuesday because of some of the damage done, specifically to the one and only road up to the town where we were staying. But in the end, we did get there and had 3 and half days of fun at the beach with our friends.

Noah LOVED the beach. He really loved playing in the waves, but also enjoyed digging in the sand with his friends. The hurricane left the surf pretty rough, so he couldn't really go swimming in the ocean, but that was fine.

We plan on trying to do an OBX trip every summer, at least while the kids are young, because it's such a nice and easy vacation. It was great to go with friends. Noah loved sharing a room with Greydon-- that might have been the highlight for him, actually.

Summer Recap

I've been really remiss this summer in my posting on Noah's blog, and in picture taking... so here goes my attempt to recap on some of our summer events. I'll do a separate post on our trip to the Outer Banks at the end of August.

One major event that I haven't posted about is that this blog will be changing names in February from Noah to Noah and Zachary. Noah is going to be a big brother. Of course, I don't have a scanner, so I'm unable to scan in the ultrasound pictures. Oh well, everyone knows ultrasound pictures look like fuzzy gray blobs anyway.

OK, looking at the very few pictures I have from this summer... I really did not bring my camera with me often. I'll have to do better in the fall.

Not really an exciting picture, but I only have a couple dud pics from Greydon's birthday party. Noah has become a huge fan of cheese pizza in recent months, so this is definitely his favorite meal these days.

These pictures are from Sienna's birthday party. Sienna had a wonderful jump house set up in the back yard, complete with a face painter/balloon artist. Noah had a fantastic time!

And, these pictures are from my birthday. Evie looks like she's trying to escape.

Darren and I got Noah a bike for his birthday. Unfortunately, the summer was extremely hot, so there weren't a lot of opportunities to ride it, but we did get in some bike time. This was a really fun day out bike riding with Greydon.