the rest...

We stayed at the Beach until Tuesday (Cailey left Sunday at lunch) and the cousins left Monday morning. Both the boys love watching Poppy carve outside.


After we came home from the ocean on Sunday the kiddos ate lunch, read the paper:), played games, did puzzles, tried out boccie and ping pong, walked to the turtle pond, and went to the pool with Uncle Matt and Aunt Leigh.

mom led the game of boccie...brought back memories of my italian uncles playing in ct.

getting some love from poppy and abby

ice pops and second story balcony's were quite the hit:)

The next day (Monday) I took the kiddos to the ocean for a few hours before coming home for the day to do puzzles (we all worked on this one with mom), ice cream sundaes, putt putt with nonny and poppy, walks with poppy and the dogs, lots of games, and another walk to the turtle pond. The pond was amazing! I'm still sad I didn't get pics of it!

ice cream sundaes!

While ephram was napping Mom and Dad took Braden and Kinsey to play putt putt while I stayed home. Braden played two games while Kinsey played one...then went on some rides and hung out with Nonny. They had so much fun!

that night for dinner mom cooked the crabs that Poppy caught and made crab sauce. braden brought back memories and sat at the table forEVER trying to get the tiny pieces of meat out!! my brother and i used to do the same thing. his hands were orange the next day from all the crab sauce. the first morning we got there dad took braden crabbing but they only caught a pregnant crab so they threw it back. he still had a great time.

we got up tuesday morning and headed back to raleigh to start our adventure in potty training the next day. what a great memorial day weekend with family at the beach!