Surf City!!

We spent a week in Topsail Island with friends, and what a great experience! Emily had been to the beach twice, but this was a first for Maicy. They loved it! They spent from morning to night in the surf. Maicy would eat sand and Emily would crash in the waves. Hour after hour after hour. When they were done, it was back to the beach house for food, DVDs, and video games!

Here's a view from the beach house. You can't tell, but that's some talllllll sea grass growing from a tall sand dune. It was perfect! The area was all residential, so there wasn't alot of crowds or busy-ness. Just silence. Free silence, in fact, since the house was on loan from a family member. All we had to pay was for food!

Here is Em the surfer girl. She really took to it, and kept her balance quite well! Granted she was only boogie boarding, but still it's more than I can do! Here's another picture of her, and a video, this time trying to catch some waves.
Maicy was attacked by a rogue wave. All was fine for a while, she was just splashing on the shore, and then WHAMO!

I was able to sneak in a few other pictures, too, like this one of Maicy eating her banana, and another of the two of them attempting to take a walk along the beach.
We even attempted a kayak! Here's Misty's kayak try.
Heading out to the water.....
Tipping over....
LOSING the kayak....
The kayak, found....
At the end of the week, fun was had by all.

Random Pictures: Christmas Concert

I haven't posted any of these yet because my camera was horrible and didn't take any good pictures. But here's some fun video. Emily is the gal in all white in the middle.

Random Pictures: Christmas Pagent

OK I cannot get over Pastor Kirk doing the movements along with the class. I didn't even notice it until a friend pointed him out! Emily did this program with the church right after her 6th birthday. It was alot of fun to see how far she's come and see her confidence grow!

Random Pictures: Thanksgiving Play

Emily's kindergarten class put on a cute Thanksgiving play with a couple of songs and some poems. Here's a couple of pix.

Random Pictures: Sledding

Just because.

Curly Hair

Somehow Maicy was born with some curls in her hair. I'm guessing it came from my Mom? Since every other relative I can think of has stick straight hair. I don't think it'll stay, and I'm actually kinda hoping it doesnt, because teenage/adult curly hair never looks like the curly hair you see here! And I threw in a random temper tantrum picture, just because.

Lifted Picture

As in lifted from High Strung's blog. But here's the kiddos, the first two on the left are Land of Madness residents.

Independence Day, or night, was fun, but Emily for some reason was NOT into it this year. I love the 4th, so her jabbery complaining took away from the fun. Actually she was a jabberin' because she wanted to back to the playground with her friends. A strange playground, at night, surrounded by strangers? That would be a NO.