Thanksgiving at the Outer Banks

Since everyone was doing school online this year, we decided to turn our Thanksgiving holiday into a full week one at the Outer Banks. We drove down on Saturday, November 21st. Hudson threw up on our way down so we stopped to clean everything up at a rest area and played in the leaves while we let the car air out a bit!

Spending time at the Outer Banks is my favorite and we had such a nice, relazing week. The Outer Banks has a much different feel at Thanksgiving than it does during the summer and it just feels so nice to be all together again!

The boys braved the COLD ocean one afternoon. Everyone thought they were crazy but they had fun!

Hudson and I preferred watching the waves from a good distance away. The sound of the waves is just so calming to my soul!

You really can't beat the view of the sunset from the boardwalk overlooking the Sound. We spend many evenings walking along the boardwalk and visiting the shops just to enjoy this view!

We spend a day at the sand dunes and everyone loved wading in the water for a bit. Hudson got a little too into it and we realized we probably should have brought a swimsuit for him. He was SOAKED!!

Of course we also enjoyed a wonderful turkey dinner on Thanksgiving and did a lot of online shopping on Black Friday. But most of all we just enjoyed spending time together as a family! We are already looking forward to summertime when we get to do this all again!

 

Election Day!

The line was long but it was so inspiring to see so many people willing to brave the wait and cold temperatures to make their voices heard. I hope that I never take the ability to vote for granted and I feel so proud to be an American, especially on voting day!

 

Halloween 2020

We weren't sure how Halloween would look this year in the middle of a pandemic, but we decided to go ahead with our normal tradition of having the Ladners over for dinner and then trick-or-treating in our neighborhood. At the last minute, Willow decided not to dress up or participate so this was our trick-or-treating crew!

Our neighborhood did a great job with handing out candy on their porches or on the street and kept everyone feeling safe. After two hours of trick-or-treating, we returned to our home for the kids favorite part of the night....sorting and trading their candy!

It was nice to have a somewhat normal holiday in this unprecedent time!

 

Flag Football Finale

Landon had a fantastic season of flag football playing for Upward Sports for his team The Hurricanes. He had two good friends on the team to start with plus our neighbor and other friend as coaches. He ended up making friends with all of his teammates during the course of the season and was sad to see it all come to an end at the end of October.

His last football game was on Saturday, October 31st. He had a great game with a touchdown and an interception and they WON!! It was a great way to end their fun season!

 

Drive by Trunk or Treat

The church down the street from our house offered a drive through trick-or-treat option on Friday, October 30th and the kids were excited to go. They quickly changed into their costumes after dinner, we drove to the church and were back home within 10 minutes. The kids LOVED it! Very fast, efficient, and Covid friendly.

Abby decided to join in too at the last minute, after I had already snapped these pictures!

 

Pumpkin Carving

We finally got around to carving pumpkins and Thursday, October 29th. I have to admit that this is not one of my favorite holiday traditions but the kids love it so we do it for them every year!

Hudson was very interested in those "pumpkin guts!"

The worst part is always getting all those seeds and stringy things out from the inside of the pumpkin. I also made them all come up with the design of their pumpkins beforehand so we didn't spend half the night looking on the computer for ideas!

Our final products turned out pretty great!