Virginia Wrap-Up

We were able to sneak in 3 more visits with very close friends of mine and coincidentally they were 3 of my bridesmaids and all Longwood graduates! :)  My kids had a blast playing with their kids!  .

 

First we met Emily and her ridiculously adorable daughter, Evelyn, at a park for a playdate.

And then the following week Emily and I were able to sneak away sans kids for dinner at Crocs, a restaurant we waitressed at together during our student teaching semester 15 years ago!!!!  I just had to take a picture of my dinner because I always crave it when I'm back in the area...Five Pepper Tuna over mashed potatoes...I had to resist licking the plate!!  We sat and chatted for almost 4 hours...guess we had a lot to catch up on!

I talked my kids into a 3 hour drive to meet Amy and her kids halfway for a playdate afternoon (they are stationed at Fort Bragg in NC).  We met at a children's museum and then ventured to Chuck E Cheese and then finally McDonald's for ice cream and the playground. 

Kailee and Janie

The gang

It only took us 5 tries without a kid trying to photobomb us! :)

Amy and I still dream about the day our hubbies will get stationed together!

Once we left Pungo, we headed back to Richmond for a few days to play with Claire's kids!

Claire and I took the 6 kids to see Inside Out (awesome movie!!!!)  Poor Hailey had a swollen eye due to a ill-placed bug bite (sadly, this happens to her about every 2 years!!!)

Sweet boy!

And sad boy!  He was sad because Caroline and Hailey had blown up water balloons but didn't make any for him...thankfully, they saw that pitiful face and made him some!

And we were all super, super excited to see Daddy again!!!  He flew into the Richmond airport to drive us home the next day.

We always look forward to our visits with them!!!!

Caroline and Hailey

Grace and Kailee

Luke and Will

Poor Leila girl was excited to get on the road and head home!!!

The 8 hr drive from the Faisons to the Greens wasn't bad and we visited with them for a few hours and then headed to a hotel since they had family in town.  Luke was excited to wake up and have "coffee" in bed and get moving on our final 6hr leg home!

Home Sweet Home!!!  The kids had left Leevi notes around the house before we started our adventure a month before!

Frog Hunting

I'm glad my girls love nature and gross things like frogs, worms and such because they truly loved being out in Pungo (minus the deer flies!!!!)  They'd catch a random frog during the day, but had two specific frog hunting nights with the neighbor girls (ew!!!)  Luke and I sat out the first hunt (it was past bedtime) but I'm pretty sure they caught around 30 frogs (I think they are actually toads)

 

 Luke with a frog on his knee!

I think he was playing dead in hopes of being set free! :)

This was the morning after their first frog hunt when they released them (they wanted to save them overnight to show Luke)

And here they are with Augusta ready for our big family frog hunt...5 adults and 5 kids armed with flashlights and glow sticks!  "Let's do this!"

Four frogs....ewwwww!!!!

And the final count this night.....FIFTY!!!!!  Ew!!!!!!!  :)  We did release them that night so they didn't have to be tortured for too long!  The girls are set to break the record next summer! 

Beach days

We hit the beach up 6-7 times during the 3 weeks we were there!  The water wasn't too chilly and we all had a blast (and it gave my parents some down time at the house, ha!!)

 

We were able to meet up with the Kownack girls and catch up!

We all missed Bobby though!

My favorite picture! :)

We borrowed two body boards from the Kownacks during the weeks we were there and the girls really got the hang of it!

We went to the inlet down the road from my parents with their neighbors and had fun despite the water snake we kept seeing! 

A super crowded day at Sandbridge



We also got to link up with my childhood friends, Amy and Sara (Campbell) and their kiddos! 

Luke and Miles (Sara's youngest)

Hailey and Avery (Sara's oldest)

Sara's girls with my kids

A photo bomb from James (Amy's middle boy)

And we had ANOTHER fun beach day with another childhood friend, Nicole (Falardeau)

The girls loved playing with her middle daughter, Renae

Her youngest, Hayden with Luke

 

And lastly, we checked out both Navy waterparks in Little Creek and Dam Neck...loads of fun!!!