Family Vacay

So I have been way behind on the blog posts lately. I never posted about our 4th of July with the Littlejohns, or Jenni's wedding in Valdosta, GA. But I will jump ahead to our vacation that we took last week. We went to Ocean Isle Beach, NC with my family and had an absolute awesome time.

I spent most of the time in a chair down by the water reading a book and it was wonderful. Although I did play a little paddle ball, a little corn hole, did a little sea kayaking, and I even boogie boarded.

Here's Brooke bringing it in after a little boogie...

Here's Dana and Brad coming in with the kayak... yes, Dana is using her oar as a guitar.

 

And passing it off to Jason and I... there is my big belly for you guys in all its glory.

And on the way back in I fell out of the boat and Jason (accidentally) hit me on the back of the head with his paddle. Don't worry... it was shallow and I was fine.

I think this was the only family picture we got... not the best quality, but I think everyone looks beautiful and beachy :-)

... And then my sister made a music video. Apparently it was on her "summer bucket list" and we were the lucky ones to be a part of it. You can watch it here :-)

Sisters.

Dana and Brad are leaving in about 2 weeks to go to China for an entire year. The rest of the family will get to see them before they go and will probably go to the airport with them. But Jason and I had to say goodbye to them on Friday when they left. It was strange because I felt like they were just leaving the beach and not leaving the country... and I was really sad. I was really really sad to see them go, but I'm really excited for their journey in China. They will be teaching English at a university there and those students don't even know yet how lucky they are going to be to have them as teachers.  Even though I'm going to miss them like crazy, I can't wait to see how awesome their year is going to be.

My parents were obviously there too, although I didn't get any great pictures of them... at least not together. They were/are awesome. My Dad had flown back in from Africa the night before we went to the beach and was still up playing games with us, boogie boarding, and cooking. My mom planned meals for each night, went to the grocery store about every other day, and still spent lots of quality time at the beach with all of us every day.

I love my family.