Saturday, June 25, 2011

Take Me To the Beach - Part IV

I know it's waywayway overdue but I am finally now putting up my last bunch of photos from our family vacation to the Outer Banks, in early June. All in all it was a wonderful week and I loved having that time with my family. This last set of images is from Thursday-Sunday of our week. I've tried my best not to put too many. ;) Hope ya'll have enjoyed these posts, and are getting to enjoy (and photograph!) vacations of your own this summer!


Adventurous Abs, always loving the ocean...


Mom helps Anna with some boogie boarding on Thursday...









Dad watches the entertainment....


Back at the house.... sleeping beauty...



Dinner Thursday: soft tacos!



Molly puts David to work...




All ready!


The guys' staple drink...





David and Tori entertain in the kitchen while waiting for everyone to come sit down for dinner...




Aaaand after dinner... it's down to the beach for family photos! 
I literally had to push, pull, and BEG my family to let us take these pictures. They were so stubborn! But they consented when I pulled the "This is probably one of the - if not THE - last family vacations where all 9 of us will be able to make it!!" line. Nice one, eh? I thought so.

Oh, and isn't Molly GORGEOUS?! 


Setting up...


No no, Clark... they're over there...




(I set my camera to the proper settings and arranged our clan, and then Ben Rossell took the photos. I thought he did a splendid job. :))

Enjoy this entertaining series....



Clark...


Abbbbby, haha...


In between photos...


Different angle...




Clark and Anna = problem children.


Annnnd... In terms of everyone individually smiling.... Here's our best shot:


Aaand in B&W...


THEN I asked if I could take some random group shots. Since I'd already dragged them down to the beach at this point, they agreed to comply with my wishes.
First, the Dean men...


Clark wanted to make his height "equal" with David and Dad's for these first shots...







Then the girls :):):) We did quite a good job, if I may say so myself.



Anna... why oh why?



Love this one!


Momma and Papa Dean...


Love this! :)




Haha, Mom... love you!
(Even if you were unhappy with me for making you pose for so long. ;))


Lastly, the Dean kids...










I'm sure that's WAY more family photos than you ever wanted to see :P But perhaps they were just a little entertaining? Maybe? Ok, moving on...

Anna begins her Friday on the beach by doing some push-ups. No big deal...



Beautiful Abs...


My darling friend from CNU (and soon-to-be-roommate!) Arielle Poe came and spent part of Friday afternoon with me! She lives in Va Beach and drove 2 hrs just so we could spend a few hours together! What a darling. :) It was wonderful seeing her!
(Photo credit for these next few images: Tori Dean)










We can fly!


Then Anna and Ben go kick our butts....




Beach bums...



Gorgeous girl....


Races with friends Ben and Micah Hinders (who drove from NoVa and spent Friday with our clan)...



...And Ben died.



Spectators of the festivities...



Molly had to leave the beach early (Friday night instead of staying through Sunday), so Dad snapped these shots of us on Friday evening...






Man, do I love her... :)





Mols and Dad. :)




The last day (Saturday) before we left Sunday morning.... 







A picture of us three, the famous trio - me, Clark, and Chris - who all went to the beach together with Chris' family in 2009, the year Chris and I graduated from High School....



Just.....stretching..... ;)








Ben, helping Anna leap over the waves...


And Abs joined in...


Ben's turn to jump!

 





A few photos of "the Little Girls," as we call them....
(though Tori is quickly graduating from that title)






Love them to death!





 







I love this girl ;)



Haha, these three....



Haha, oooh the faces....





Leaving, Sunday morning...





House number :)
 

Our faithful van...


Loved this house! It was GREAT for our group.


And that's it! I know that's probably 893579573498674988x more photos than anyone wanted to see, but I had to share! My apologies that it took me so long to finish up these beach posts. I hope getting to see some documentation from our family vacation helped you see why I rag on my family and love them so much! They're awesome, and I am SO blessed. :)