beautiful sunrise

"when I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?" -psalm 8:3-4

i spent the past week at the beach and i managed to take pictures only once during the whole trip. but i guess if i had picked any day, this was a definite highlight of the week. one morning we woke up at 5:30am and took a boat ride to a deserted island off the coast of NC.

it was an absolutely beautiful morning and i was very excited to explore the island (roxie was pretty much in heaven)!



and then the sun began to rise...









it was awesome watching it progress and seeing the reflections of the clouds in the water.

on the island there was a deserted house. it was all locked up, but still very cool to look at, and of course take pictures of/with.





matt & tara

i was definitely missing my other half during this photo shoot.

how cool is it that we could still see the moon on the opposite side of the sky?



what a gorgeous morning!







thank you Lord for an amazing sunrise and yet another reminder of how big you are.

thursday at HB

"how good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!" -psalm 133:1

thursday was basically our last day at holden beach. due to the crazy storms on friday, we all packed up and headed home. im so glad we got to spend some time on the beach thursday! ricky and i were ready to go, packed with our chair backpacks and all!

i took a lot of pictures on the way to the beach, but once i got there, i realized my lens was all fogged up and it apparently did not want to de-fog the entire time we were there. so, enjoy some pictures of the walk to the beach instead!







after dinner that night, we went to sunset slush! visiting this place while we are at the beach is always a must.



i got strawberry and green apple, ricky got chocolate and coconut ice

meredith got a cry baby



if you've never been to sunset slush, you HAVE to try it! i guarantee you will absolutely love it.

wednesday at HB

"come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." -matthew 11:28

we spent most of the day wednesday with the snipes family on their boat!

first there was tubing. the guys were super excited!





danny wasn't easy on anybody, though most everyone seemed to stay on the tube!



seesters!

my sees and mom relaxing on the boat.

nick was very confident about his tubing skills.

...until he almost got thrown off. in fact, i had a really hard time taking pictures of him because we were going so fast!



i was not so thrilled about the experience, but steph talked me into it anyway.



the crew. im thinking the new XS ad?



next they brought out the wakeboard and ricky showed us all how its done.





he even did flips! (you can't really tell in this picture, but it was awesome!)

then nick got out there and did some awesome jumps!







thank you snipes family for another awesome day on the boat! love yall!