Ocean Isle 2008

We just returned from our annual family beach trip. We have been going to Ocean Isle since I first started college.....just a few short years ago :). It is always a great time together as family and now that we have kids it is so much fun to watch them playing in the sand and water. 

This was the first year that the boys, especially Austin, wanted to boogie-board. Both he and Jacob would go out (with us, of course) to where it was almost over their head and ride the waves in. I can't tell you the number of times that they both were completely wiped out by a wave, but they were real troopers, would get right back on the board and go again. They loved it! 

This might be the first time in the history of the beach vacations that I didn't get badly sunburned, at least one day during the vacation. Several of us got a little "minor redness" but we have all gotten more skin cancer aware as we have gotten older. 

All the boys (my dad and brother, John, Austin, Jacob, and Riley) went fishing one evening. That was a definitely a highlight for Austin and Jacob. Austin got a fishing rod from his Uncle Josh for Christmas and has been anxiously awaiting his chance to use it. Unfortunately they didn't catch any fish, although Austin had already asked me if I would be able to cook all the fish they were going to catch for dinner that night :).

Grammie & Granddad bought these matching t-shirts for the boys. They say "Who's your crawdaddy?"

Austin, our famous boogie-boarder

The Three Amigos or maybe I should say, The Three Stooges

Jacob, living on the edge with his crazy hair