We've been back from the beach for 10 days and are already counting down to next year! To say that it was a wonderful two weeks in the Outer Banks is an understatement. We stayed in a different house than last year and boy was it beautiful...straight out of a Southern Living magazine and Pottery Barn catalog! The boys loved the beach and having their "own" pool. At the beach, most of our time was spent making sand castles to be immediately smashed or digging their own pond to play in. Joey loved playing paddle ball and Jack spent most of his time trying to get the sand washing off his hands or out of his mouth. They both were so good about the water! I now have two dare devils when it comes to the pool. The boys gave us our fair share of heart attacks with their adventurous ways of jumping in. Joey was a little timid at first, always wanting to hold at least one hand. But, by the end of the first week, he was jumping, hoping someone would catch him. Jack, on the other hand, was full go from the beginning. We would tell him to count to three and would start counting with him, but he would always go at 1 1/2! We rented bikes this year and one of them had the kiddie trailer on it. The boys loved riding down to the beach and after dinner rides around the neighborhoods. Joey loved for mommy and daddy to race....which really wasn't fair since Joey was pedaling all the extra weight. And it was too cute watching them the boys snuggle up with each other while they were riding :) Joe, my dad and I took Joey on a fishing charter one day. He amazed us at how well he noticed that there was a fish on the line. The 3 of us and the captain would be talking and all of sudden he would yell that the rod was bobbing and he was ALWAYS right! We also took him for his first round of golf. I really didn't think he would enjoy it that much since it was really hot and he wouldn't get to "play" like he wanted. I was prepared to take him back to the house at the turn. BOY, was I wrong! He loved every minute! At the turn, he wanted to keep going and after 18 holes he said he wanted to play some more..."I want to play all day and all night!"
It all seemed to go by so fast...but we enjoyed EVERY minute!
