North Carolina Family

Ok, since it has been months since I have blogged I have lots of pictures of fun times we have had... since I love taking pictures, my blog posts will pretty much be that; pictures and some captions. Hope that is okay with y'all :)

A while back, Easter actually, David and I flew to North Carolina to visit some of his family. We have been to Ocean Isle 2 times for family reunion type things with Ann's (David's mom's) side of the family and those 2 times I made a quick connection with Allison (a cousin of David) and we had been emailing ever since. Always talking about us needing to come out there for a visit... and we finally pulled the trigger and headed out. It was an amazing trip!!!! We had a blast with them and we would go back in a heart beat! Michael and Allison have 3 kiddos, Cade (age 2.5) and Reagan and Carson (twinners age 10 months)- ages are when pictures were taken :) As you know, when there are kiddos, there are pictures galore! And with Cade stealing my heart with that Southern accent from the second I walked through the door and the girls being twins (I have a fondness for twins for some reason :P) I had a camera filled to capacity. I have narrowed it down though, for your viewing pleasure :)

This is Carson... she is amazing. She looks at you when you walk in the room, throws her hand up to wave and says (in the most awesome southern draw)... "Hhhheeeeeeyyyy..." It is so precious. I just want to steal her and bring her back to Cali with me.

She can also play sweet and innocent when she wants to :)

This is Cade. Cade speaks in the 3rd person, which is a habit some may think is not good... but I LOVED every second of his little mouth opening up! We showed up to the house a wee past his bed time, but they kept him up so he could greet us, and what a greeting it was! He was great. He took my hand and said, "Cade show you around?" My heart melted! He was such a joy to be around! Such life and excitement in those eyes!

And this is little Reagan. She is a little sweet pea! A little climber too. David put this tent together in the backyard for the girls (and me... you know how I just love the sun :P) to chill in while we all played outside. But this monkey stayed in the tent about 30 seconds before she was crawling around in the sun exploring :)

She is just so sweet. Loved walking when she had something to push around.

Reagan giving me her ZooLander pose :)

This is how Carson sucks her thumb, with the fingers up. So cute.

Big Brother Cade took the girls for a spin in the Jeep, they loved it!

This is in their backyard! Crazy! We are not in Cali anymore.

As you can see, there is no gate up to keep Cade from running into this pond in the back yard... so Allison and Michael have come up with some creative parenting to make sure he stays out of the water. Here in the conversation Cade had with me the 1st night I got there:

Cade: You like worms?

Me: No way.

Cade: Cade don't like worms! Frogs eat worms. Cade likes frogs.

Me: You do huh?

Cade: But trocdodiles eat frogs. Like this... (and he showed me with his arms chomping down).

I then was told that there are trocdodiles in the water in the back yard. And so Cade stays away from the water because he does not want to get near the frog eatin trocdodiles. While I was taking the picture, Cade was in his Jeep and he saw that he thought I was getting a little too close and came yelling and running towards me saying, "Wendy... watch out... the trocdodiles gonna get you!" It was very sweet that he was trying to save me :)

The boys went for a ride around the block in this fun toy :)

He loved all the boy time he had with David. They were buddies!

Hangin loose with their shades

Boys and mud!

She is such a doll... she had turned on the tears for a quick second, then I distracted her with my camera :)

We met up with Charlie, Helen and their kids (Waverly and Hugh) while we were there and we all went to an Easter Egg Hunt at the country club close to their home. Cade decided to steal the show in this picture. Classic.

This picture is for you Lolly... to prove we were actually there, and not just my camera :)

This kid has so much personality!

Carson... not so much the fan of the Easter Bunny!

This is Michael, David's cousin... never saw that big of a resemblance until I saw this picture! They would look like brothers if they had the same hair color!

This was our only group shot from the trip... Some of the kids were not camera ready... but it worked :)

Cousin's hanging out.

Hugh was soooo good on the horse :)

Later that night Allison and Michael took us down to the water front and we walked the pier. Carson made herself cozy high up on David's shoulder.

David and I, admiring the art on the pier.

Cade was showing his sister creatures in the water.

And telling her about sharks :)

It was such an amazing trip. We hope to go back again really soon! Thanks for everything McWhorter's!!!

PS... more blogs to come daily with more of our travels from the past few months :)