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I am back from a great great week... Man I did not want to come back home. It was so great spending time with the family and it was even better to be able to wake up every morning look out your window and see the ocean. I got to do a lot of reflecting there and it just really made me appreciate all the blessings and opportunities that I have. I was in a house for a week with 20 people (six of them kidlets) and we had a great time. That's a blessing in it's self! Since I'm trying to play catch up for all the work and meetings I missed last week and preparing for another excursion next week (to sunny Florida) I'll just share a few pics from my holiday. I hope all of you alls were great.

the house

me and my nephew walking on the beach

my sister, nephew and cousin racing

my kite :)

my sister, nephews and cousins son in the house

we went walking and found a turkey on the beach

we do know how to party

the official holiday/black gathering game... spades!

we made the kids earn their keep... j/k they were cleaning up the play area

the last two are my favorite.... the view from our patio
we were about 100 yards from the ocean