I'm almost over it... and these are the last of the photos (I promise)

I'm almost over it... really... I am. I started looking at the last day of the beach and the photos. I love these shots of the kids-- the water and the suits and all the playing, they just made for the best compostions, I thought.

This is our last week before school starts. I can't believe it. I'm sorta blue today. I've enjoyed this summer so very much. I needed this summer. Like I haven't needed a summer since I was about nine years old myself. But Saturday we went back to school shopping and I was pretty okay with it. I'm getting a teensy bit excited to have a schedule again. We are turning into lazy blobs around here. I'm sure my studio is growing cobwebs by now. After this week, I'll get back to work and (hold your breath here) make something.  No more "how I spent my summer vacation photos" from here on out.

But until then... ahem, it was such a gorgeous day on our last day at Nags Head. Mike and I went out early to the beach. It was so peaceful and uncrowded. Crisp and windy and quiet. And then at about ten a.m., pods and pods of dolphins forty feet from the shore wove their way past us.  (I'll bet we saw over two hundred in an hour.) So magical. And what a great send off :)

The kids started joining us right after the dolphins had swam by.

When Jesse and Sophey noticed their big siblings and parents were all wearing their sunglasses, they ran back to the beach house and got theirs so they could lay out and be cool too. Oh, I wish they didn't have to grow up for a few more years.

At the end of our vacations Mike and I start with the begging and pleading for a family photo. But we had pretty good cooperation this year.

One, two.

  One, two, three.

One, two, three, four, five.

One, two, three, four, five, and six!

A lady walked over while we were taking all the photos and asked if she could take our photo so that we could all be in one picture together. Yay! BTW, I think this photo should also win me a 'brave woman blog award' with that straight-outa-bed-went-to-the-beach-hairdo. Holy crap.

Anyhoo, I'm going to spend one last week enjoying summer and getting my kids ready to start school, and then I'll be back to better blogging and some fun projects to share with you.

Really, I will. Pinky promise on that. xoKelly

 
   

Comments

[Traci]

beach photos are my favorites. i love the family photo. plus a little wind always helps with the hair.

enjoy your last week of the kids being home. summer went to fast didn't it?

[cindy geilmann]

I have never enjoyed a vacation like that. I really do need it though. Will you e-mail me and tell me where it was and how I get ahold of them?

Your family is so darling and that beach looks so inviting.

Thanks for you visit to my blog, your comments are always so appreciated.

big hugs
cindy@stitches

[Julie]

Dolphins! What fun, lucky you!

You're right, the kids playing in their suits made for lovely photographs! Well done! (I love Miss Polka Dot's suit, btw! She's adorable wearing it!)

This is great, that you're including yourself in more photographs! "Hi You!"

[Maria]

How cute is that! I can feel the salt spray and the breeze. :) Look at these when there's a blizzard and 10 degrees outside. (sorry)