Hi Family and Friends! Happy belated Thanksgiving. We hope that everyone had a great time with family and friends, we sure did!!
This is a view of the back of our van, think that we have enough stuff! Two kiddos require lots of things. Especially baby things!
Lucy, Ryann and I were in the second row.
Daddy was driving and we still crammed things in the passenger seat, LOL!
There were rainbows!
look far in the distance!
Atlantic beach here we are!!!
I always love clouds and sunshine like this, it makes me think the heavens are saying hello, and this year esp, without Grandpa, it was awesome to come over the bridge and have that view!
We added a new part to our family tradition this year. We stayed and my cousins house Bev and Shane on Friday night and Nick and Shane (Uncle Mike, Liam and Chris) Smoked pork butt for shredded pork dinner on Saturday. 
Just to get an idea of how much meat we had. We had 3 of these!!
Decided only to cook two, Here is the finished product! (we would have leftovers all week!)
First Sunrise. Sunday Nov 24th
It was fun because we were right near the pier.
Nick took a picture of our house from the pier. Its the tall blue one! It was called A pierless vista!
MeMa and Lucy having a tea party with real coffee!
Lucy and Grandpa!
Nick and all of the boys went to Ft. Macon.The park is also home to a Civil War fort with a history as intricate and unique as the waterways of the sound. Visit Fort Macon to enjoy the land's natural beauty and soak up some history.
Can you see the hand peeking out from behind the paper towel?? Lucy was playing hide and seek and came up with this spot all by herself!
Sunset
Hi Daddy!
Lucy and Grandpa on the beach
Getting ugly xmas sweaters ready to go!!
Finished products
Lucy with Grandma, Auntie Shany and Uncle Justin.
Back of the house! I never did get a chance to take a pic of the front of the house, but the backs are always the best!
Tommy, Chris and Mikey
Grandpa and Ryann going for a walk!
Turkeys!
A storm is coming! Later tonight, we had a tornado warning and a tornado came through off the ocean, passed over the island, through the sound and continued on to land. My Aunt Freda had tons of trees down and she lost power. It was crazy. We were about 5 miles away from where the tornado came off the ocean. 
It was raining so hard!
Daddy took Lucy to the aquarium.
She loved this because she has swimming divers that she plays with in the tub! she was amazed, Nick said!
Making Turkey cupcakes!
Family was watching us.
Here are the Ugly xmas sweaters!!!
Tried to take giant family picture, this is everyone that sleeps in the beach house all week, but my pic was blurry and not a very good one.
Can you say Fish Fry!!
homemade Monkey Bread!
Walking the cat walk with TT.
This years Charlie brown tree, Thanksgiving night, we decorate with shells, sing Christmas carols and have a white elephant gift exchange!
Thanksgiving Table! 34 people at dinner this year.
The dolphins came on Thanksgiving finally, they are always a sign for us that my Uncle Ryan is with us!
everyone getting there food! 
My cousin and uncle screen printed shirts this year for the whole family, they were awesome!
decorating the tree.
The final product!
Our attempt at a family photo.
Ryann trying vanilla ice cream
I don't wanna wake up and go home! I wanna stay at the beach house!
Home again, Home again, jiggity ja. We got all of our Christmas décor out! 
Lucy putting ornaments on the tree!
Ryann wanted to shop online instead!
Laying around!
So tired.
Dreaming of santa!
I really wanna crawl!
Oh man, I cant yet!
9 months OLD!!!! and 17 1/2lbs now!!!
Now we are gearing up for Christmas, we will be headed to Nick's sisters house in Montgomery, AL. Nicks Dad and stepmom will drive down from WI and spend xmas with us too!!! and then the weekend of the 28th, we will head up to my parents house and have family dinner at my grandma's house. First Christmas without grandpa.. We just miss him so very very much!
Otherwise, everything is finally slowing down for a few weeks. We will actually have a few weekends in a row home and are so very excited. Using that as an opportunity to clean and organize the house! Lucy is doing great, she really gets Santa this year and if she keeps it up she will be getting coal : ) Ryann is a few days away from crawling, I have to get on video her in crawling stance and rocking, sometimes she rocks to hard and crashes down on her head. poor thing!
Well we hope that everyone is doing well and getting their Christmas shopping done.
xoxoxoxoxoxxoxo
Us
