Easter Weekend

For Good Friday and Easter weekend, we headed to Oak Island with my mom, sister and niece.

We only have showers at our condo, so Baby Carson was treated to a special bath:

Friday's weather was really bad so Brendan spent most of the day putting together his NC Notebook:

Thankfully both Saturday and Easter Sunday were amazingly beautiful so we had plenty of time on the beach.

Sunday morning the kids woke up fairly early and were ready to hunt for their baskets.

Check out that bed head!

I think all the kids were pleasantly surprised with their goodies.

After the baskets were opened, we headed down to the beach for a few photos. No one really wanted to cooperate. I didn't get one photo of Emma smiling the entire weekend.

And look at Carson in that sweet dress...it was my mom's when she was a baby.

We had a great weekend and can't wait for more fun in the sun!

Pilot Mountain

Last weekend, MiMi took Brendan and Jackson to Pilot Mountain State Park to gather research for Brendan's NC Notebook project.

They had a great time and took some wonderful photographs.

Did you know that Pilot Mountain is a Monadnock?

Thank you so much MiMi for helping Brendan with this very important project!

Weekend Research Gone Bad.

This past weekend, our family ventured down to our beach condo even though the weather forecast looked horrendous. We were hopeful that the ocean breezes would help to move the system out to sea, but we were disappointed.

The main reason for this trip was for Brendan to do research for his 4th grade North Carolina Notebook project. The entire fourth grade at his school does this project each year. It is very much like a scrapbook for North Carolina. Each student chooses something relative to NC starting with each letter of the alphabet and researches it. This weekend, we were hoping to knock out letters F, O, S and U. Brendan chose Fort Fisher as his "F", Oak Island for the "O", Southport for the "S" and the USS North Carolina as his "U".

We were only able to cruise through Southport on Saturday because of the torrential rains that would not let up. We were also going to take the kids to the Southport Maritime Museum, but that was even closed because they are moving locations! We were seriously depressed that the weather was so lousy and that we were not able to do the things that we had planned for Saturday. We were even going to take the ferry from Southport over to Ft. Fisher for the morning, but we decided against that as well.

The only photos we were able to get were just a couple at the waterfront in Southport and by the USS North Carolina on the way home on Sunday.

These are a few of the best (although not great) of the photos:

See how beautiful it was on Sunday? We had to be home in time for Brendan's US Baseball Academy session at 2pm so the only thing we did was to go by the battleship.

Guess we'll be heading back to the beach in the next few weeks.