OBX- Beach

Saturday, August 6th, our family headed down to the Outer Banks (OBX) of North Carolina for a week long vacation. We stayed in Kill Devil Hills, NC.  This was our first time being in the OBX.  

We absolutely loved staying in this area.  It was beautiful and relaxing.

The house we stayed at belonged to a friend of ours from church.  She graciously invited us to stay there all week for a very small fee.  It was a great house for our family and very spacious!  We had more than enough room and it was only a 10-15 minute drive to the beach!

This is pretty much what happened every evening when we returned to the house after being at the beach most of the day... tired munchkins!

So, like I said, we hit the beach every day we were there.

The munchkins had a blast!

They both loved playing in the sand...

and walking down to see the pier.

Our family on top of the pier.

On Thursday, we drove about 45 minutes south to check out another beach on Pea Island.
This was the bridge that we crossed to get there.

Pea Island was pretty much deserted.  There were maybe 3 or 4 other families there.  It was a beautiful beach and the waves were much gentler there than at the other beach.

There was lots of sand to play with there, imagine that!

Buddy all decked out with his daddy's sunglasses on.  Too funny!

Buddy loved going under water, even if it was only two feet deep.

Sissy loved collecting sea shells at this beach and there were a lot of them to snatch up.

This is one of my favorite beach pictures of her...

On the last day of our vacation, Jon and the munchkins built sand castles using some of the sea shells we collected at Pea Island.

Sissy was so proud of her creation.

And so was Buddy.

Sissy decided to take a little rest on my legs as I was catching my last rays of sun before leaving the next day.

The munchkins splashing around in the water one last time before we had to say good bye to the beach.

We really enjoyed our time at Kill Devil Hills!  We are hoping to be invited back again next year.