Vacation, summer 2008

This summer's vacation was FABULOUS! We spent a week in Kill Devil Hills with Jay's family. Jay rented everyone a beautiful semi-oceanfront beach house with room for everyone. Who is everyone?....

Well, there was me, Jay and the rugrats. Jay's very overworked mom Sherry, her boyfriend Karl and my newly 18 year old bro in law came along. The Patriarchs of the family (Monga and PapPap) honored us with their company. And last but by no means least, Jay's Uncle John, Aunt Carrie and cousin Dylan drove all the way from Florida to spend the first half of the vacation with us. My best friend Jessica, her husband Eric and her two oldest kids even came down for a night! So many great people under one roof!

The kids had a blast! Kay boogie boarded and caught crabs in the sand. Noah loved the waves and splashing his sister in the pool.

The boys had a load of fun! Jay made rum punch right away and kept plenty of it on hand. Jesse wore shorts...and that's rare! Karl and Jesse did a good bit of fishing off the peirs while Jay and PapPap rode in a small plane touring the ship wrecks. Uncle John made steak (that I actually ate) and crawled around on the floor with Noah (when he wasn't beating on Dylan and cracking me up). Dylan went along with everyone and everything, letting Kayleah annoy and follow him everywhere.

Sherry was on the beach early mornings by herself (something she rarely is) walking and finding shells, Monga relaxed and laid out while Aunt Carrie ran miles each morning and played with Kayleah (scoring big points in Kay's book).

And then there was me. I ate, then ate some more, played with the kids, laid out and relaxed as much as I could.

This vacation was such a big deal to us, we were so blessed to have had a beautiful week of weather, good spirits from everyone and have the ability to all be together for such a fun week! We can't wait to all get together again!

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