And a few more!

Location - Corolla, NC
Weather - HOT
July 19 - 26, 2008

Robert, Tyler, Isaak and Lukas jumping off their cliff into the waves









Isaak out in the strong waves









Tyler









Stephanie & Lukas watching the sights!













Tyler and I hiding from the sun!








Tim and Toot coming in!








Isaak








Tyler AKA Toot!












Lukas - the toothless one!








Kalyn, Isaak, Tyler, Lukas, and Robert all digging!

pictures from the beach!

We only took 426 pictures during the week, I had just a bit of trouble deciding which ones I should post!!!

Isaak with his board









I love the expression!









Lukas riding a wave in!

















Alexis, Tyler, Ian, Kalyn, Robert Isaak and Lukas all in our hottub!

Isaak, Lukas and singing Tyler!

Protesting....

Here we are on the way home from our week at the beach and no one is happy about this trip North. We're taking a slight detour and having dinner with Mark and Summer Bolt, that will be a bright spot for us! We all had a great time together and dinner last night was totally awesome. We had steak, crab legs, and shrimp and more steak and shrimp and a few more shrimp, another crab leg tossed in. There was other things to eat on the table, but no one seemed to want much of that! Then we had a cake to celebrate Kalyn's 7th birthday.
Friday we spent most of the day on the beach, the waves were very strong and not a lot of fun to play in, but we had fun playing in the sand and sitting under the umbrella visiting. No one complained too bad of a sunburn last night so the sun screen must have worked. The boys took a trip to the 4 x 4 area and saw some wild horses. I bet they're glad I still have my 4 wheel drive vehicle! We're getting close to Summer and Mark's so I better stop. I promise to update later with pictures, between Tim and I, we took about 400 pictures so it might take a bit of my time!

Way behind

Somehow, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday came and went and I guess we did more of the same! Beach time, eat, hot tub, eat, beach, hot tub, eat ..... On Wednesday night, we went to meeting and enjoyed seeing those folks again. Thursday early morning, Ron, Stephanie, Kalyn, Robert, Ian & Alexis arrived. Thursday started out as a rainy day but as Steph and I got ready for another grocery run, the sun came out and everyone except Steph, Tyler and I headed to the beach. It was a great day together and we're excited about the sun shining this morning. We plan to do a surf and turf dinner tonight, Isaak had crab legs the other night for dinner and he thinks we should do a repeat. We plan to be at the beach from breakfast until dinner, riding the waves, digging, building sand castles, catching up on our reading, sunbathing, taking pictures, and having fun together. Until next time......

Day 3 - vacation goes on.........

Ahhh this is the life! Yesterday was an awesome beach day. After a dip in the hot tub, we headed over to the beach and the digging began! Isaak, Lukas & Tyler dug a major hole, with tunnels connecting to other rooms. I was still a little nervous of getting burnt so I stayed under the big umbrella that Tim bought most of the day. Isaak, Lukas and I spent a lot of time riding the waves on the boogie boards and all was going great until Lukas met up with a jelly fish. One probably thought a shark had approached the way he screamed. After lunch at the house, we went back to the beach and worked some more on the digging, riding the waves, and holding down the beach chair. Back to the house for dinner and everyone was kinda lazy and a little red! We've heard that Tuesday is going to be HOT! YIPEE, we're in the right place for that forecast. Tim took a lot of pictures yesterday but I haven't got them on the laptop yet.

Corolla Beach - Day 2

I'm happy to report the red flags are GONE! The big boys and Tim went to meeting (Tyler is still running a fever so I stayed home with him this morning.) After lunch, I'm sure we'll have to check out the big sand castle we built yesterday... More later on that adventure and maybe a picture or two.

Vacation - Day One

So we didn't get to leave Friday night.... It ended up being just fine, we went out to eat Friday night at a local restaurant, Hunters Head. It was awesome, I love the cheese fondue!

We left bright and early Saturday morning, 6:00 AM and got to Corolla, NC at noon. Stopped at our favorite pizza shop for lunch before heading to our house. I think the boys were too excited, no one wanted to eat pizza. Came over to the house and changed into our suits and hit the beach. We noticed red flags flying, no swimming, but everything looked just fine to us. Some big storm heading up the coast was causing rip tides and the life guards so nicely explained to a group of us why they are so dangerous. We stayed on the beach playing in the sand and ankle deep water (which feels like bath water!) until about 4:30. I tried really hard to stay out of the sun, I'm taking medication for Lyme's and it doesn't work well with the sun. I found out that night that my fingers and toes missed the sunscreen and were FRIED. OUCHY! We headed back to the house and I was elected to make the grocery run. Let me tell you, that is not so fun with 500 other people getting what they need for a week. Made it out in one piece and Lukas requested nachos for supper so that's what I made! A dip in the hot tub and everyone was in bed by 9! Of course one member didn't feel so great and was up most of the night. YAWN.

More later....

July in a nut shell......

I can't believe I haven't updated this for over a month! We've been very busy doing "stuff!" School ended on June 17 and we started right in with swim lessons for Lukas! It was cold mornings for the first two weeks, but that didn't keep our little fish out of the water.

The first week of July, my brother, Brian, and his family from Ohio were at my folks. We spent a lot of time down in Fredricksburg and went to DC one day with the bigger kids. That was a great experience, we take so much for granted when we live so close. We took the shuttle bus around to save the "kids!" from walking but it was great for the parents too. Irving & Sandra gave us the royal tour of the big city!

The second week of July, Isaak brought home a high fever bug from Fredricksburg and missed out on a day of his bowling camp. He started feeling better by the middle of the week and enjoyed every bit of bowling. Lukas was in a soccer camp and Tyler and I kept entertained at the pool. On Wednesday, Lukas caught the fever bug and was pretty miserable for the rest of the week. We spent Thursday night in the hospital, he was dehydrated and they couldn't figure out what was wrong, but ruled out mono, strep, meningitis, and pneumonia. They think it was hand/foot/mouth but it only affected his mouth. He started feeling better Sunday night FINALLY!

Sunday, 7/13, Tim and I celebrated 17 years of marriage. Wow, where have those years gone? This week Isaak started an intense soccer camp from 9 AM to 8 PM. He was very sore the first night and wondered how he could ever go back! Tonight is a big game against the coaches and BBQ for the family.

Tyler woke up this morning with the fever bug, we had to cancel our dentist appointments and he's held down the couch most of the day. He thought kool-aid would help him a lot, so he's been drinking that steady. I'm really hoping his is short lived, we're leaving tomorrow for a week at the BEACH.

So now your up-to-date on the Virginia Clites, I hope to post some beach pictures soon!