Topsail Island Trip 2009:

I had such great intentions for the beach. I was going to blog, run and play the guitar everyday. Yeah, it didn't happen. I ran a little, played a little and blogged..... none. I found better things to do.

Like lying on the awesome beach and watching my boys have the time of their lives playing in the ocean.

Or like eating lots of yummy dinners that each couple took a turn making through the week.

And watching Annabelle and the girls play endlessly in the sand.

And spending lots of time chatting with the family.

Just hanging out.

It was dreamy and wonderful.....and here are the pictures to prove it.



First off, the ride over went really well. The kids and I left from our house at about 7am which was about an hour before Mom, Dad, Jonathan and Beth. We were planning on getting on down the road and then taking our time on our stops as they caught up to us. It turned out that we only stopped 2 times at a couple of rest areas and met them at the realty place for our house. A couple of times through Annie and listening to The Horse and His Boy while Annabelle napped made time just fly.
















































Topsail is a great place for our family to
vacation. It is a bit farther than many of the Carolina beaches but much more affordable. There is no night life or even many restaurants for that matter, which suits us all fine as we don't really even like to go out to eat. We just need a beach and a house and we are set for a perfect vacation.





The way Beth buried Jonathan in the sand made me laugh so hard. It just looked like he was a head sitting there on the sand....I think you had to be there.



































































We had really great weather this year. The first four days were gorgeous! We went to the aquarium and Fort Fisher in Wilmington, which was about an hour down the road on Thursday when it cooled off a little. Friday was a little windy but it made us realise how beautiful the rest of the week had been.


Annabelle didn't get in the water AT ALL. She would put her feet in if someone was holding her hand, but otherwise she kept her distance.

AND she insisted on wearing Lucie's clothes and this particular bathing suit the entire week. I'll save that issue for another post.





































Here we are at Fort Fisher. That day can definitely be
checked off in the books as a homeschool day because we all learned so much at the fort and the aquarium.





Everyday Uncle Jonathan dug a really deep hole in the sand for some reason. Oh yeah, for the kids to play in. They made a little bunker with the lawn chairs as a roof one day.


































Wow, I am struggling with getting these pictures and text to line up the way I want them to. Someone in the blogspot world needs to work on that!






Anyhow, I have many more pictures to come. I will post more this week. Thanks for reading and looking at them!