OBX

We had a super fun beach week, minus Irene running us off on our last day. Damn Irene.  This is the second year a hurricane has cut our trip short so we've all decided next summer we are going to the beach in July. There will be no more of that!

Susan has all these Members Only jackets so we all put them on and took a family picture! Austin's fit him to a T :)

Abi said she LOVES crab legs so we took her to get some while we were at the beach.  We didn't really believe she would love and eat them like she did and she surely surprised us! She ate 2 whole claws herself! 

Bobby's brother Reagan came up from Charleston and stayed with us a few nights.  He cooked us an AMAZING dinner with hush puppies, soft shell crabs, fried flounder, fried shrimp and king mackerel. 

We went pier fishing around 11 o'clock one night.  We had a fun time but didn't catch much.  Only a few blue crabs and some small fish they threw back in.  Aus got his fishing fix :)

Can't wait to do it again next year!!! 

Abi is 8!

Who can believe Abi is 8 years old? We can't! She will be starting 3rd grade next week.  We had a little luau party for her while we were at the beach since we wont' see her on her actual birthday, August 31st.  We had a great time and she got lots of great stuff!   

Our Birthday Girl! 

Checking out all her loot! 

What flavor is it?? Vanilla? Chocolate?

She couldn't believe it! 

My mom made this rainbow cake!  So awesome!  I'll post the recipe and how to make it soon! 

1st Anniversary!

It's so hard to believe we've already been married a year.  We celebrated while we were in OBX, which was a perfect spot for our anniversary since we got engaged at the beach too.  We opened our presents and cards in the morning, chilled on the beach with the fam all day and then had a fabulous dinner at Tale of the Whale.  It was a perfect day! 

We took part in the tradition of eating the top of the wedding cake on your first anniversary and let me just tell you how DELICIOUS it was.  So. So. SO. Good. I definitely expected to bite into it and spit it out but that was not the case! Between Aus and me + the rest of the family we ate the whole thing! I swear it was just as good as on our wedding day.  I think the secret was how my grandmother wrapped it up.  She wrapped it in cellophane over and over, then tin foil over and over, then put it in a plastic tupperware container and did this immediately after the wedding. Thanks Gammo for hooking that up!
 

The cubs ball was off of Austin's groom's cake.  It was only ok, but it was only ok the night we ate it too.  Chocolate pound cake...mehhh.

We drank a bottle of this champage the night we got engaged, toasted it at our wedding and then drank it on our 1st anniversary.  This bottle was actually leftover from our wedding. Delish!

The moment of truth...

He knows the way to my heart...

...and I know the way to his.

I love being married to you, Aus.  Cheers to many more!