One of the things I look forward to most each summer is our family vacation!  This year we choose to go back to the Outer Banks in North Carolina.  It’s the perfect place to spend long days at the beach and to simply relax.

The houses at OBX are spacious and could comfortably fit our family of eight. My family LOVES playing games so we played lots of Spot It, Rook, and Loaded Questions.  It also happened to be a really ideal week to be on vacation as it gave us a chance to watch some of the World Cup and Wimbledon.  🙂

This was an especially awesome vacation as it was the first time all of the sisters and husbands went on a vacation together!  Lisa and Tyler just got married at the end of May so it was so fun to have Tyler along.  He GoProed (is that a verb?) our entire vacation! I’m thankful that all our future memories will be captured on video by Tyler! 🙂

Here are some photos from our time in OBX!

The newlyweds!

We had to do a little photoshoot on the beach one night 😉

Now for some random iPhone pics from the week!

Duck Donuts was definitely a highlight of our week!  I love hot donuts!!  They are made right in front of you, SO delicious!

Before dinner one night we visited one of the largest sand dunes on the east coast!

Feeling so blessed to spend a week with my AMAZING family and especially this guy! 😉