Happy New Year!

We hope you had a Happy New Year celebration to begin 2010. We are super excited to have started the new year with a new house in Pine Knoll Shores (basically Atlantic Beach, NC). We bought the house to have our own place near the beach, but also as a home base for Brian & Mark's fishing boat and fishing gear. Now we can all spend the weekend together whenever Brian heads East for a fishing adventure.

New Year's weekend was our first time to spend the night in the new house, and it was lots of fun for all of us!

View of the house from the street

View of the house from the back

The house sits on a canal with easy boat access

Living Room (we were lucky that the house came somewhat furnished)

Rachel & Caroline are very excited about their mermaid bedroom decor -- we plan to get bunk beds for this room.

View of the canal from the kitchen window (not a bad view while washing dishes!!)

Out for a stroll on New Year's Day



All the action wore Sarah out!

Rachel's picture of the house, the stairs, the bedrooms, and the L-shaped couch

All 6 Vandersea grandkids! Tucker, Caroline, Neils, Sarah, Rachel, & Chase.
We spent New Year's afternoon at Mark & Miriam's house, where we enjoyed a delicious feast.


Back at home -- the girls LOVE getting to hold Sarah, who was happy to smile for these photos!


Robert, Lo, & Emma Rose came over to see the new house -- here's Caroline talking to Emma Rose.