Carolina Beach

We headed to Carolina Beach for a day and a half when we were in NC.

The girls love love love going to the beach.

I didn't take my camera to the beach, so the only ones I took were with my phone.

We stayed at my Sister's place and it slept 8 of us great!

We spent the afternoon on the beach.

We all had a blast even though it was a red flag warning.

Luckily a small pool of water appeared after we arrived, so Sarah and some of the other smaller kids had a great (and safe) place to play.

We ordered pizza out and then headed to the outdoor movie by the lake.

We enjoyed Britt's donuts that night as our movie snack/dessert.

I was thinking Sarah would fall asleep, but not such luck.

She did sleep in until almost 8am the following morning, so that was cool.

We had an awesome breakfast at Kate's then headed to the aquarium.

Sarah enjoyed the balcony.

The view from the condo balcony...awwww the beautiful Atlantic Ocean.

Two very happy girls waiting for us to go to the movies.

I'll post pictures of the aquarium in my next post.

Pretty girls, Papa and furry friends

The girls love playing with the toys at Memom and Papa's house.

Most have survived all these years and I love seeing my girls playing with mine and my sisters' old toys.

We got to meet my two new furry nieces and get some furry cuddle time in.

Jenna with Cinnamon 

Sarah with Precious.

When Sarah sat down, Precious would jump up and sit beside her.

When Sarah would cry, Precious would check on her. It was so cute and Sarah loved it!

Three pretty girls playing Trouble!

Papa and Memom had a new swingset built and the girls were testing it out.

These pictures were missing two cousins....maybe next year.

Sarah skipped out on the last few pictures because she wanted to swing more.

I think the girls are probably already planning our next trip to Memom and Papa's house.

Family reunion

 This is an overload of pictures..but I wanted to share the ones I took.

These are from the 2012 Moore Family summer reunion.

I love my big family and love that my girls get really excited about going to the reunion.

They love that they are related to all these cousins.

All 17 Moore children from my grandparents were represented at this reunion.

15 of the Moore children were at the reunion. 

There was lots of great food, talk, dancing, and memory sharing....and new memory making.

I don't think I saw Meghan and Jenna but a few times...so busy playing and having a great time.

Sarah had a great time too...but I have to keep an eye on her.

She kicked off her shoes and got down and dirty (seriously).

I love seeing all the babies and catching up in person with all of my cousins.

The youngest in the family....for a few more months anyway.  

The family keeps growing and I believe we have three more joining us later this year!

Sarah had a blast!

Sarah with her Uncle John!   

 I love that my girls get to run around with bare feet at my

 Grandmama's house and make fun summer memories.

Sneak peek of NC trip

We arrived at Mom and Dad's house after a great trip down and the girls needed to burn off some energy.

We headed out after dinner to Papa's basketball spot (in front of the garage) and had the girls had a fun time playing. It was still pretty hot, so we jumped on the golf cart and cruised around the neighborhood.

We had one action packed, fun filled week.

 I will post more pictures and tell you more about it in a few days.

Hot weekend

We had one of the hottest weekends since moving from Edwards, CA.

The only difference was here we have humidity..which makes it much much harder to breathe.

We decided to stay in most of the weekend and get some relaxing, playing and painting in.

I painted the front hall and will fresh up the baseboards when we finish the rest of the hall walls.

I like how this picture shows my new hopsack (tan) wall up against the blue that is going bye bye.

The girls did a little painting, glueing, cutting, coloring....crafting.

Sissy went from room to room finding the coolest places to sleep.

Rob enjoyed watching TV in between my honey-dos.

After Church on Sunday we went to lunch and hung out for a few hours at the bookstore.

Hot day fun

The temperature in our area has been way above normal, so no outside playtime for the girls.

Temps have been hovering and finally jumped over 100 this week.

We keep busy with all our activities but some days we just hang at the house, play and sometimes build castles.

This first one was built by Jenna.

This one is Meghan's build.

Sarah's castle is this little one.

Jenna also built a tower.

And last...

but certainly not least....

we make big messes while we are hanging out at home on these hot summer days.

Side note....this is Sarah's room and NO it doesn't normally look like this.

I think I burn an extra 1000 calories a day running after the girls and cleaning up behind them.