Halloween 2014

I know it's been a while and I need to update things in-between the last post in here, but I wanted to share our Halloween pictures :)

At 10Am Lily had her school Parade. She is Elsa from Frozen

Below is Lily and her BFF Meagan

Then it was on to Brandon's School at Noon for his Parade and Party

He is the Grim Reaper, it was a little hard to take pictures

Brandon and his Friends

Our New Puppy Doc Holliday and his outfit

(He does not wear hats)

 Getting Ready to Trick Or Treat

It got pretty cold so Lily had to wear a hoodie. Still pretty adorable if you ask me

"The Good Life"

Here are some pictures of the 3rd  floor of the house, 

we were in process of packing up so the place was kind of a mess...

OBX Part 2

Weds took the kids to play Putt Putt (I think Lily's first time)

She liked Sword fighting with them...

 Lily did the normal thing with moving the ball with her hand near the whole after the initial putt.  

She seemed to like it though and was very patient with the line. 

After Brandon played bumper cars, but with an inflated car... He enjoyed it to say the least. 

That night after Lily was in bed we made S'mores on the back grill

Thursday was Lily's 2nd Birthday.

After she woke up she opened her presents

Then we went down to Duck and walked on the Bayside boardwalk.

 We had some yummy pizza and Ice Cream

We went swimming again that afternoon

View of our backyard.

One day we even had a deer hanging out back there!

That night we had to get ready for the Hurricane Arthur (Grade 2)

Lily helped Kenn move the chairs to one side of the deck

We had IceCream cake after dinner that night and hunkered down. 

The hurricane hit about 2:30AM and Kenn and I woke up and just listened to it until about 4:30AM

It was frightening and I just hoped the power would stay on, the Kids would stay asleep and the windows did not break. Luckily ALL of those things were OK. 

The next morning (Friday) Kenn and I walked around to see if there was any damage. There was some flooding on the streets (maybe a foot deep) but no damage.

We took Brandon out to the movies to see Earth to Echo (his first big kid movie)

He loved it. 

When we came out it was a beautiful day!

Friday was also the Fourth of July, but due to the storm they cancelled all the fireworks. Kenn and I went to dinner alone at The Blue Point. It was some of the best seafood I've ever had.

Sat was our last real day so we went to the Beach

Then came back, had lunch and went in the pool.

(Below the kids had a dance party) 

Sat night we had our last Dinner at North Banks Restaurant and had more awesome Seafood. 

We left the next morning around 9AM and had an easy 6hr ride home. 

Everyone agreed that was the most relaxing vacation ever and can't wait to go back!

OBX Vacation

We went on our first week's vacation in probably 5 years.

(Which was the last time we went to the beach with my parents)

 

We were lucky enough to go with my parents to a rental house in OBX.

This was the first time we had ever been there and were nervous at first.

 

We left the house at 4AM to make sure we did not hit traffic.

We made two quick pit stops to pick up breakfast and potty and pulled into Corolla around 10:30AM

 

Since we were not really allowed to check in until 1pm we went for breakfast to kill some time.

I had my first chicken and Waffles. It was awesome.

 

We went back around 11:45 and the cleaning lady had finished so we got to go in early.

My parent arrived shortly after us.

 

Lily on the top deck as we got everything organized.

We ordered dinner in and kept it low key to unpack. We did make a run to the Waves store to get Brandon a hermit crab and some ice cream at Dairy Queen.

The next day we took everything and the kitchen sink to the beach. We were a street off the water and it was kind of exhausting hauling everything over the sand dunes (we greatly reduced the rest of the trip) I didn't take many beach pictures, those are all on Kenns camera.

That afternoon we went over to the Corolla Light house. It was the first one that Kenn and I had been inside. We climbed the steps with Brandon and my Mom. Lily and my father stayed down below (thank goodness, it was a million steps)

View of the bayside from the top

 View of the Ocean side from the top

 Brandon at the top. I got very nervous being up that high with him so I talked him into leaving pretty quick after being up there.

 The kids being adorable and hanging out together

 Another aspect of this house that we loved. Having our private pool.

 

We went out that night and at some seafood at Steamers and Brandon wanted to do the paddle boats.

Lily was NOT happy she didn't get to go

(that's why I do not have many pictures)

 She did like watching Brandon do the Go Carts though

 They would not let him drive these go Carts, but we went back the next day  (before dinner) and they allowed him to drive Jr Go Carts. (kenn took him so I do not have pictures)

We did a little shopping and Lily found a friend . Several people kept stopping us and asking us where the duck came from and how cute Lily was walking it around.