The Green Family: North Carolina

Alright, I am back! Well sort of. I know everyone wants to see pictures of Layla, which I will have up in the next couple of days, but first I am going to post pictures from our vacation in North Carolina. I never was able to post them before I had her. So now until I have put together my post of pictures of Layla these will have to do.

We went to Topsail, North Carolina at the end of July/beginning of August. I was about 37 weeks pregnant and, for the most part, uncomfortable. That was to be expected though. What I didn't count on was the swelling. I was so swollen from the heat, humidity and traveling that you couldn't even see my ankles. Believe me this was a running joke the entire vacation.

My mom and I took about, oh I don't know, 2500 pictures over a two week period. I know, we have a problem, we are currently seeking therapy. Anyway, basically I don't remember who took the pictures but it was either my mom or I. I bet Eaan and Jeff are thanking their lucky stars they bought us digital cameras...can you imagine developing all those pictures? Now on to all the pictures...keep in mind this is only the first week.

Here is the beach house we stayed in.

Our boardwalk to the beach.

And of course the ocean.

My little man. He was pointing to a helicopter flying by. Every time one would fly by he would point and yell "Daddy". It was pretty darn cute.

Anyway, Jourdan had a lot of fun on the beach. He boogie boarded, built sand castles, jumped waves, collected shells, had temper tantrums, and got a nice little surfer tan. The best thing , by far, were the buckets.

My mom and Corey started doing this a couple years ago and it works great. We (as in we, I don't mean me) would just fill those buckets with water and let the kids play in them. It kept them by us and away from the ocean so we weren't constantly going up and down the beach. Well it kept my mom and Corey from constantly going up and down the beach. I, on the other hand, was permanently parked in a beach chair. As you can imagine I wouldn't have been much help anyway.

Pictures, pictures and more pictures...

Jourdan learning to boogie board.

Of course I can't forget to mention the Jet Skis. We brought the Jet Skis with us, which I thought would be a hassle but turned out being a lot of fun. Of course I couldn't go on them. But they were pretty easy to get down to the beach. The guys had a trailer and would wheel them down to the water's edge and push them in. My job was to get pictures of the guys "getting air". Which they did, except for Mike, along with getting knocked off and rolled, oh wait only Chris rolled the Jet Ski. Which, unfortunately, I wasn't able to get pictures of.

First they crank the Jet Ski up on the trailer.