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obx vacation (part five)


Finally made it to the last post in my vacation series. Thanks for reading along with all of our adventures.

I’ll start where I left off in the last post. 
We had just gotten done with “the best beach day ever” and went back to the house for dinner before we headed off to the sand dunes for another sunset. Can anyone see, from reading these posts, why I am still recovering from vacation? We enjoyed getting to see and do everything..but it sure is exhausting.

3 boys walking in sand

 

sand dunes look like desert

 

sunset over the ocean

 

sunset 2

 

sunset 3

 

toddler and little sister

 

sunset 4

Our grand plan the next day was to go to the kite festival after breakfast. The sand dunes are not very fun to walk on during the day…even when the temperature isn’t too bad. I’m talking like mid-70’s…gorgeous, perfect weather! But our feet were burning as we trekked through the sand. You think we would have remembered this from our last trip, but I guess we had to re-learn our lesson. This outing was so not pleasant. Hot sand, burning feet, crabby toddler who kept sitting in the sand and saying “don’t wanna walk,” and to top it off….no wind. No wind=no kites. We hiked all the way the dunes to find out that the winds weren’t strong enough to get the big kites out yet. At this point, we were ready to just go back to the house. But not before I got a cute picture of Liam by the water.

boy looking at water
toddler boy sleeping in chair

Evangeline and Kingston took naps while the rest of us took some time to relax. But the later it got, the more we were pushing it to try the kite festival again before it ended. Liam still wanted to go so I asked him if he’d rather go with me or daddy. He chose me 🙂 So we had a little date. We parked much closer this time and we wore our flip flops. It made for a much more enjoyable time.

kite festival at sand dunes
boy watching dragon kite

 

octopus kite

 

Liam got a little kite flying lesson. Now he’s ready to buy one!
boy learning how to fly kite

 

Out of all the kites, the rainbow kites were his favorites
boy flying kite

 

I was kind of partial to the giant flying panda
cool giant panda kite

 

boy and cool kites

 

mom and boy

After dinner, we headed out to the beach for a walk at sunset. We brought a bucket to collect seashells. We filled that thing. This was my favorite part of our vacation. Perfect weather, perfect beautiful sky, lots of seashells, and the absolute perfect lighting for pictures! I wanted to get a picture of each of us with the ocean in the background. 

don roberts
jessica roberts
boy wearing hat
cute smile
toddler boy smiling
but poor Evangeline never got out of that backpack–and she actually left the house with no bow! If you know me, that never happens. I was pretty sad.
cute baby girl

 

boys looking for seashells

 

cute toddler boy

 

seashell with a hole
young boy showing off seashell

 

toddler showing seashell

 

it’s like a ‘hidden picture’ game. can you see it?
camouflage sand crab

 

boy running from ocean waves

 

I have no clue who these men are. But I loved the fisherman vibe for this picture
black and white picture two fisherman

 

toddler jumping

 

liam 3

 

kingston 5

 

pier on the ocean

 

under the pier

 

sunset at pier

 

american flag at pier

 

cotton candy sky
I wish I could relive that night. It was amazing. The whole trip was amazing. Thank you for letting me share our trip with you! And thanks again to Eileen for making this trip possible!

 

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OBX vacation (part two)


You know how I’ve mentioned taking a lot of pictures during vacation? The final tally ended up being about 1600 pictures. That’s a lot to go through. An even bigger task is to narrow it down to an acceptable amount for a blog post. I’m not sure what “acceptable” is, but I’m pretty sure I often break the rules.

Anyway, if you read part one of our vacation, you know that I left off with our trip to the Wright Brothers Memorial. After that, we headed back to the house for lunch and then packed up to go to the beach.
You’ll notice this post is packed with mostly pictures of Evangeline, Don, and me. I didn’t realize until looking through all of them. On the beach, the camera stayed by our stuff for the most part. Oh well. The good news is that the boys had an awesome time with the grandparents.

 Enjoy a multitude of pictures of my sweet baby girl 🙂

her swim suit and hat–love!
cute baby

 

the boys were able to play with the grandparents while Don and I sat back and relaxed with Evangeline.
kids activites
 
she loved eating sand!
baby eating sand
grandpa and boy on beach

 

mom and baby

 

mommy holding baby girl

 

that face!
funny baby face

 

we took far too many pictures of birds during the week. I will not make you suffer through all of them.
bird flying overhead

After a couple hours at the beach, we headed back to the house to get cleaned up and have dinner. My dad grilled burgers for us! Then Eileen took us to see the sunset from just a short walk away from her house. The boys wanted to stay back at the house and watch Netflix with Grandpa. So we just took little Miss with us this time.

sunset over ocean

 

dad and baby

 

mom and baby

 

cute baby girl sitting in sand

 

mother daughter picture

 

sunset 2

 

married couple with baby

 

married with child

 

sunset 3

 

jessica roberts

 

don roberts

 

jessica roberts blog

 

sunset 4

 

more sunsets over water

 

sunset at beach

 

sunset at sand dunes

 

grandma and baby girl



Thank you, Eileen, for showing us this beautiful location! It was such a great spot to see the sun setting. And for dealing with us turning every situation into a photoshoot.  

Next post will include a sunrise date with Don, a trip to Festival Park, and another trip to the beach–with a rainbow!