Thursday, October 7, 2010

Family Time

Two weeks ago we flew to Raleigh and joined Ryan, Todd, and Nathan's families in a trek to the Outer Banks. Ryan had rented a large home on the beach and invited us all to come along with he and Leanne's good friends Rob and Felicity and their kids. Jason's family joined us for the last two nights.The weather was gorgeous all week and we had such a great time.While there we celebrated Abby's 8th birthday. Here she is doing some artwork with her new colored pencils.


Papa and I had a lot of fun with our cute, energetic, messy and very noisy grand kids.


We visited Kitty Hawk and the famous Cape Hatteras light house & the boys went surfing






Maddie and Grammy hanging out at the Beach



Leanne created one of her masterpiece birthday cakes.
Think we have enough ice cream choices?

Probably not

Miss Independence. Two going on twenty...


Pizza picnic in Jason's backyard

Ryan enjoying his chicken foot at our Dim Sum feast

Outside Ethan's church where we attended the Primary Sacrament meeting
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Fast forward to the next weekend and we are all back together in Southern California to attend Abby's baptism and celebrate Ryan's birthday. We missed you Kelli and Jared!!!

Abby was angelic in her beautiful white dress

Charlie was quite a fashion statement in this royal blue number

The cousins all played on the beach in front of Ryan's rented Oceanside beach home

On Conference Sunday we celebrated Ryan's birthday with yet another of Leanne's creation....
a one of a kind "Snicker doodle Cake"

We loved our precious time together!

7 comments:

Meghann said...

I enjoy reading about all the fun you have as a family! I also love seeing so many photos of your lovely grandkids, they are so cute!

Jessica Sorensen said...

So fun! Can I be in your family?j/k See you in a little over week.

Anonymous said...

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Nathan said...

Fun times at the beach.

Kimberly said...

Great recap! It was fun to see you THREE Saturdays in a row. Such a treat!

Harris Beach Bums said...

Not much can top good times at the beach, a beautiful baptism and time with family. Especially when there's so much cake and ice cream involved, not to mention Kim's amazing chocolate pie!! We love you guys!

Love Family said...

Looks like you guys are enjoying some great times together. It's fun to see all the laughter and love in each of your pictures.