Hang on folks! This is a long one!! I am just going to get right to it. 4th of July was a little sad this year because it was pouring down rain. Rain meant no parade and no city fireworks. We certainly weren't going to let a little rain spoil our holiday fun, so we invited some friends over to our new house to swim in the rain and light some sparklers. Didn't you just move in 3 days ago? Absolutely! But true to our style, we didn't let a few boxes keep us from having people over to hang out!
First pic at our new home! Love it!!
As the kids swam in the rain, Beckett enjoyed the view and ate his popsicle. Funny story....I was taking pictures of all the kids swimming and everytime my flash would go off, a parent would yell "Lightning! Everyone out of the pool!" There was no lightning and everyone was safe!! :)
No 4th of July is complete without a flag cake!
Probably not the safest way to light a sparkler, but Jeremy got it done!
Beckett's first sparkler...
Oooooooh!
Not scared one bit!
I put Beckett to sleep and we took the rest of the kids out front to light up some sparklers!
Jackson and Aidan posing like the Superheros they are.
Take that!
After 4th of July, we packed up and headed on a week's vacation to the beach. You'd think that since we have several beaches within 6 hours from us, we'd head to one of them. Noooo!!! We decided to drive 13 hours to the Outer Banks. It was very nice, but guess who is never going to the Outer Banks again?
Beckett really loved playing with all the sand toys this trip. Good thing we had all those beach toys because the water at the Outer Banks was a cool 60 degrees!! No joke!!
I'm not getting in the water. Are you getting in the water?
We spent a lot of time building castles :)
We went on this trip with our dear friends Angie and Andrew and 2 of their friends from New York. Because we had such a large group, each family would take turns making dinner. It was perfect! After dinner, the kids would get their baths and head to the porch for a popsicle!
Checking out the water.....
The other plus of this beach, is it was full of shells! The kids had a great time finding them.
Beckett swinging his seashell bucket.
Beckett decided he had had enough of this sand stuff and was going to brave the frigid temps and catch some waves!
Wheeee!!!
That was awesome!
We came...We saw....We conquered that 60 degree water!
Sweet Payton with my boys :)
Brothers!
Silly boys! These 2 sure did have a blast spending an entire week with eachother!
Family shot!
After Beckett survived, Payton and Jackson thought they would check out the waves. Waiting for a big one!
Score!
Since we spent a lot of time digging, we found quite a few ghost crabs..
No beach vacation would be complete without a trip to the sugar shack!!
Jackson picked out Beckett's treat...
Check out our loot!
Love this girl! So blessed to have this family in our lives!
Deep thoughts from Beckett Nesmith.....
What an amazing vacation! I definitely would not make that drive again, but we had such a fun time! Can't wait for next year's trip!!
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What an awesome week! Family and friends, it can't get any better than that. Only missing one thing....the Orcutts! ;)
Love and miss you!!!
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