For those of you who are not in my family... my grandparents rent 2 beach houses in Whalehead (north of Corolla) for the week of 4th of July. This has been an annual tradition for most of my life and it is usually the only time all 25+ of us are together. There are many, many traditions wrapped up in this one week which make it a lot of fun. This year only 3 people (my cousin Chris, his new wife Mollie and my brother) of our entire family were absent so that was pretty special.
There are 6 kids of my grandparents so each of those 6 kids and their families fix dinner for the whole clan one night. And we have a huge crab feast every year on the 4th.
I am very glad we decided to go because it was very relaxing and wonderful to see all of our family.
This is our clan...
This is our clan being silly...
We drove back last night so we would have today to get ready for the week.
On a different note, Rick and I went to church this morning. Not as shocking as it seems, we have been talking about finding a church that suits us for quite sometime, we just finally got the motivation to get up and do it.
We went to a church called Velocity out at the Short Pump Cinemas and really enjoyed it. It was a little makeshift considering a lot of the congregation was still on vacation but we enjoyed it enough to want to go back and check it out next Sunday.
There are a couple of other churches we are interested in but we figured we give this one a full month before we could really digest it and then go from there. They are doing a series of sermons this month called "Confessions of a Pastor" talking about how Pastors question their faith just like the rest of us and the first one was pretty awesome.
We will let you know how our quest for a faith community goes.
We love you all and hope you have had a great vacation. We are both very thankful to live in such an amazing country with such amazing families.
Love,
your spiritually-enriched richmonders.
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