Beach Vacation 2013!!

This year since 4th of July hit on the Thursday before we were to head to the beach, we decided to drive to Richmond on the 4th of July since Dennis was off work that day.  The drive went pretty well and only took us about a half hour longer than usual despite having a baby who needed to eat and be nursed so that was great!

We got to Richmond in time to have a nice dinner with our friends, the Gallagher's.  The kids had fun playing together and then the adults played cards after all the kids were in bed.  We had brunch the next morning and then headed to the outlets in Williamsburg.  We spent the day there doing a little bit of back to school shopping before heading to Chesapeake for the night.  We stayed at a nice hotel (got to adjoining rooms for the first time, which worked out great.  Then, Saturday morning we were able to get up early and drive just a short distance to Nags Head.

It was nice to beat the traffic, but since we were there before everyone else and before the house was ready, we went straight to the beach and then lunch.

Our week at the beach was outstanding at always.  I love that we have this tradition every year.  I grew up going to Ocean City every summer with cousins and family and it is some of my best memories.  So, I'm glad my kids get this time to have fun with their cousins and other family members and make great memories.

We of course spent most of the days at the beach...

And lots of time at the house pool too.  We even had a huge water balloon fight one day at the pool...

While we were there we celebrated Cameron's 2nd Birthday.  The kids played party games.

The adults played Catan a lot as usual and this year Colin learned how so he was able to play a couple games too!

We went to the sand dunes again this year to fly kites...

Dennis took the older two to play miniature golf one day...

For dinners each family cooked a night and then we went out to dinner twice.

There were 15 Grandchildren this year!  Next year there will be one more...David and Fanchon announced they were expecting their second in March!

15 Grandchildren and counting...

The week went by way too fast as usual!