Ocean Isle and Sunset Beaches- July 2011

We returned last week from our best week at the beach yet! This is the first time I have been to the beach without a baby or being fairly pregnant...so even though we were juggling three kids and some sleep deprivation- we all really did have a great time. Nana came along too - she got to sleep more than we did. Though I think Isaac did get up a few times complaining of leg pains... and conned Nana into some Tylenol. He also enjoyed waking up his sisters first thing in the morning. We actually stayed on Ocean Isle beach and when we arrived on Saturday afternoon we headed to the ocean for a proper hello...and to see the look on Leah's face. She was in love.

On Monday morning, the 4th of July, we lined up on Second Street for the Golf Cart parade. The kids caught lots of candy and even a few popsicles. We rented a golf cart for the week and it was a blast. Going to and from the beach was a piece of cake.

Here is Nana, Grace, and my finger on the beach digging for shells.

One gorgeous day (we had amazing weather while we were there) the Kizakevich family picked us up on their boat and we went for a ride. Then we anchored on a little beach and let the kids swim. We had a couple of jelly fish join us, but Paul scooped them up in a bucket and put them ashore.

The girls were happy just to snack on the boat.

Several of the days we went to Sunset Beach as the beach is longer, flatter and leaves these wonderful tide pools when the tide goes out. Perfect for crazy baby Leah!

Surfer girl...not afraid of a thing. And she really did have great balance on this.

We even let Nana take a turn keeping up with Leah in the ocean. I am posting a video in the next blog with Leah in the ocean...so you can see for yourself how busy she is.

We also had a blast riding our bikes all over the island.

One day we drove into Myrtle Beach and visited the Alligator Adventures- Isaac loved the huge turtles.

Here is Leah on the 4th of July. Everyone stayed up late to watch fireworks.

Here are the kids on Ocean Isle Beach working on a drainage system for the beach.

The work got very serious.

Me and the big kids on Ocean Isle Beach.

The house we rented again had a dock. Sid and the kids love to fish and turns out Leah just loves fish.

Here she is holding her prize fish for me to see. So happy with the fish.

Mean Daddy took the fish from the baby.

One morning Isaac and Nana went down to the dock to fish. Isaac waited patiently with his net in the water for a fish to swim by and....bam! He caught one!

On our last night we went to Cinelli's for pizza. We sat on the balcony in 100mph winds. It was fun?