Random beach snippet snaps

Can you guess whose sandy feet are whose?

I wonder if the crab is mad that his sun was blocked or if he was glad for a second of shade.

Fairly early morning sun on a glass ocean.

Proof of a busy beach! Check out how many different species used the same space.

The solo Thing Two beach sighting. We beach very differently!

Thing Three, with waves that were just warming up. He did get some fun ones before we left!

And Duck Donuts, because we can't beach without them. Blueberry lemon, lemon coconut, chocolate peanut butter, maple bacon, glazed, sprinkles, and cookies & cream. Of all summers to not be running, haha...

 

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 This is the first year we've had the Jeep, so we were excited to drive Gladys to the beach. Certain people wanted to name her Ruby as she is a Rubicon, but I vetoed because there's probably a million Jeeps out there named Ruby for that very reason. We also had arguments over whether gladiators could even BE women- they could- and how many people named Gladys do you come across these days? Dada says she's my Jeep. I say she's not. He says if she is HIS Jeep, he's changing the name. I guess she's mine.

Anyway, Jeeps have duckies. It's a whole thing. Well, Duck Donuts happened to have a bin of duckies that a certain someone delved into so we also got to "duck" some other Jeeps while we were at the beach. So fun! One of those ridiculous acts of random, silly kindness that I love!

This kid is a walking Duck Donuts advertisement these days. While the water bottle didn't come home with us, I'd bought the hoodie last year to replace his previous OBX hoodie that he utterly destroyed. Maybe I should buy stock...

I suppose if you have to get up, having a still-warm donut is an excellent way to have to do it... that's the same smile our friend Dawson would give whomever handed him his first cup of coffee at camp. Good times.

That is indeed bacon on the bottom left ones.

Out with the old...

This kid. He makes me laugh every day. He's campaigned for months for a Duck Donuts hoodie, which is a chain in the Outer Banks with super fun donuts. The plan was to get him this brand new hoodie for Christmas, but the day before it came in the mail this week, he showed me how he'd utterly killed his faithful OBX hoodie. He's worn this every day for over a year, and it apparently has had it. He lost the grommets off the strings. He eroded the cuffs off the sleeves. He wore holes into the kangaroo pouch and the back by the tag. He tore the elbow of his left sleeve previously, but when he came home the gash was much larger, having gotten stuck on a desk. Poor thing. He quipped, "well, you can't time it any better than that!"

 

Photos from Nic's phone

In case the title threw you, let it be known that Carrie is going by Nic these days, which is short for Nicole (her middle name). Most of these are from her phone.

We spent a week in the Outer Banks with my brother, his wife, my cousin and his family, my aunt and uncle and another cousin, and 3-4 dogs depending on the day. We did some days at the pool, some at the ocean, visited Booty Treats twice (it was a slow year for us, I guess), Duck Donuts once (that would be Dada, haha), and didn't get poured on like we did last year. We look forward to this trip every year, but it was extra special because we got to celebrate miss Maudie's 90th birthday with her. It is actually today, so here's your shout out, Maudie! Happy birthday! And thank you to the Reed and Walls clan for hosting us! We love you all!

The first daytime trip to the ocean was pretty calm, but it was chilly.

Lexi, AKA the Fruit Bat, is the third of the beach house's resident dogs. She is only a year old and is a smiley, sassy piece of work.

Nic's favorite- the ocean at night.

During the family photo shoot in Manteo

Twinning with my cousin David, who does lighting and sound for Paparazzi in Kitty Hawk.

Damon saying hi to the ocean for the first time this summer.

Wilder water during our next day trip. I thought being knocked around more would be a deterrent for Damon, but it didn't even slow him down. He makes friends wherever he goes and was playing ball with friends old (senior citizens) and young. 

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