Holden Beach 2012

My family spent last week at Holden Beach. It was a great week. Since are numbers are increasing and we need at least 5 bedrooms, first row homes weren't that different in price so we got to enjoy that. It was incredible. 

This was from our front walkway. The house had sliding glass doors so everything you do in the living area had the beach in the background. So awesome. It was as if we were at the beach all the time. 

Mom and the kids enjoyed early mornings on the porch. Ok, we all did. All day.

Sand was the highlight of the week. They liked digging holes. 

                                                        And being buried in the holes.

It was so much fun listening to them in this hole. Pure joy. They laughed and laughed. I think this will be something they remember for a long time.

                  Here's Green Lantern showing off his power in his PJs and his daddy's shirt.

Enjoying the famous creative pancakes by Aunt Jenny. She makes designs to order. Pretty amazing. Mario, flags, mushrooms, surf boards, dolphins. You request it, she'll make it.

And here is another of them eating. I'm not sure why little kids eating together is so cute and picture worthy, but it is. Maybe because they are all seated and relatively quiet. Note the brightness of the sun and beach beaming from those windows in the background. Like I said, we enjoyed the beach all day long. 

Then we had a colder day. I don't think it ever rained but it wasn't warm enough to swim (at least for me). So we took the kids to the dollar store and let them pick one thing. The boys got ninja kits which included nunchucks, a knife and a throwing thing. (yes, my ninja knowledge is pretty awesome). Uncle Patrick taught the boys how to wrap their shirts around their heads to be ninjas. The boys thought this was the coolest thing ever.

And what do ninjas need most? Training. And on the beach no less. So that is exactly what we did.

Here they are trying to get through the "lasers" without touching them.

                                             Some made it across and were waiting on others.

I don't think the other people on the beach got what we were doing. We saw some weird looks. It did look like training but I don't think they looked enough like ninjas. They looked as though they could be training up in the north of Mali, if you know what I mean.

It was hard work. They did very well I must say because, you know, I'm really a good sensei.

More to come!