Monday, May 26, 2014

catch-up

Yes, I know it's been a long time since I last posted.  I won't make lame excuses, and because so much time has gone by, there is no way I can even attempt to catch-up in photos.  So I've posted some of the "highlights" since last August, and I'll try to be better about keeping this blog updated in the future.  :-)

last fall we took a trip to the Outer Banks with my parents

Will and I climbed the Bodie Island lighthouse with Maggie (Lilly was not tall enough to climb, so she had to stay at the bottom w/ Grandmama and Granddad)
we went on a few canoe trips here in central NC...
we took a trip to Helen, GA last October for a Summer family reunion
4 generations of the Summer family
Lilly's 3rd birthday last October...
gummy candy kits from Uncle Chris at Christmas last year...
snow...
more snow!!
more snow!!
our snowman

in January we took a trip to visit family, including my grandfather in west TN
we went on lots of hikes...
and several camping trips...

we have adopted 2 new beagles, Dan (on the left, he's 2 years old) and Dolly (on the right, she's 3 years old)
and Maggie just "graduated" from preschool last week...hard to believe she will start kindergarten in the fall!!

2 comments:

  1. great pictures! I want to visit the outer banks. where did you go exactly? We may attempt camping this summer, I am excited and nervous. We may rent an RV and try some soft camping to see how it goes.

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  2. My folks rented a house on South Nag's Head beach...it was pretty nice, right next to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. We've gone on a few day trips a bit further south, near Topsail Island, but probably the best time we had was camping at Carolina Beach State Park and poking around Fort Fisher / Kure Beach (although I guess that's not really considered the Outer Banks). But considering we've lived here over 8 years (and Raleigh is only ~ 2.5 hours from the closest beach), it is embarrassing how few times we've been out there!

    I was pretty nervous about our first camping trip...we had done a test run in the backyard that did NOT go well, so we waited a bit longer to go on the first real trip. But the girls LOVED it, and they really did great! We've gone on many camping trips in the past year and a half (both with friends and just us), and they get sooo excited every time we go. And we camped every night but 1 on our week-long Ichauway reunion trip last spring...I was pretty nervous about that but it actually worked out well.

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