Annual Emerald Isle Photo Shoot....enter if you dare!

Every year (for the past 7) we have gone to Emerald Isle, North Carolina as an extended family.  The attendees have always been the 4 Rahns (Don, Laura, Carleigh and Katie) and Rocky and Rina (Laura's parents).  For most of the 7 years Patty and Ev (Laura's sister and brother-in-law) have joined us for at least part of the week.  This year, for the first time, all 8 of us were in attendance for the whole week!! Lots of fun!!

An annual event is the "taking of the photos" on our last evening at the beach.  We have gone from the matching white and khaki outfits to tie dying matching (or sort of matching) t-shirts before we leave.  We also have extended the photo shoot to include matching girls shirts and also matching Laura, Patty and Mom shirts.  You never know who will show up with what, and then we are all expected to wear them for pictures - whether we want to or not! :)

We become a spectacle on the beach, and anyone still wandering on the beach may become our target as we hunt for someone to take the "full family" photo.  There is always lots of laughter and goofing around - and continious camera footage to document the hour or so of silliness!

So...if you wish...enter if you dare....here are this year's selected photos from the Last Night Picture Event:

First the nice, and the "pretty":

Now for the "other" ones:

So there you have it....."Seldom A Dull Moment" holds true for Laura's side of the family also - The Wests, Bernardos and Rahns.

Some things to think about when viewing the above pictures:

Purple tank tops: did you notice Ev hanging from the flag pole in the background?  He and Don plotted that and us girls had NO idea he was doing it.  Don was laughing hysterically while taking the pictures, and we thought he was laughing at my mother....poor Rina!

Animal black t-shirts: Patty's contribution this year and I'm not sure why, but we had fun scaring my mother.  Her face was real!

Yellow Life is Good t-shirts: Mom's contribution and an annual shirt of some sort, to celebrate everything that has happened over the past few years and we are now on the other side! :)

Rocky and Rina shirts were Christmas presents a couple of years ago.

The beach trip is over and the unpacking and cleaning up the house has begun......but also the planning has begun for our many other adventures coming up during the next year.

Stay tuned for:

• White House tour and overnight
• Busch Gardens? 
• September wedding in New York
• November getaway?
• Spring Break?
• June?
• August Alaska cruise