Lukey and Anna

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Tulips are blooming in Holland. Michigan.

I planted a whole bunch of tulips last fall and they grew!! Anna went out to look at them with her tulip dress on.

These boys are WILD together.

It was hard to get good pictures of the kids when about a million other people are trying to take pictures too. There were so many tulips this year. We went at a perfect time.

Monday, April 28, 2014

The Beach!

The weather in the OBX was between the low 50s to low 70s throughout the week. We had a few days where it was really nice at the beach. It was a great vacation! It was nice being there in the off-season because it felt like we had the town to ourselves. Thanks for letting us use the house, Aunt Roselyn and Uncle Dennis!

Nuns in the sun. These nuns were always out making sand churches, swimming in the sea and walking around.

Lukey LOVED playing in the water. He called going to the beach going to "North Carolina." He convinced Da, Pa Bob and Nana all to swim with him a lot. He never got tired of it and never seemed to mind that the water was freezing. I couldn't go out in the water with him...Anna needed me at the shore with her. I didn't mind that at all. Too cold.

Bonding with Da.

We tried to get pretzels at this good pretzel place Aunt Roselyn took us to a few years ago. We tried Monday but the sign said it was only open Wed-Sat. Then we tried again Saturday. Then there was a sign saying they were closed because of a wedding. So, Tim made some pretzels. Perfect with beer on the beach.

Anna liked tracking down this butterfly as Lukey and Da played in the water.

Even more than the butterfly, Anna liked this grasshopper. After it jumped away she kept wanted to look for it again.

Photo shoot on the beach.

We brought bubbles to make the kids smile when we took pictures of them. Lukey had so much fun playing with them that it was hard to get him to stay still. The bubble idea might've actually worked against us. At least they had a good time with them.

Anna making her buzzing face.

Jockey Ridge State Park

Anna and Lukey really liked the sand dunes. They walked/ran the whole time up and down the hills.

A 3 year old boy with his 3 sign. He liked finding all the trail markers along the way.

Morning walks

On a few mornings during vacation, we walked out to the town of Duck and walked along the boardwalk, looked at animals, shopped and ate ice cream. Anna always insisted on holding hands with Lukey.

The kids each got their own ice cream cone with sprinkles. They were very happy about it.

They were very neat with their cones. They shared just a little with Mommy and Da. They were somehow able to eat their whole cones without getting messy at all!

We saw deer along the trail, and birds, and a lizard. Their favorite part was the lizard. I didn't have the camera that day but they thought it was really exciting.