Our time in Hatteras has been greatly marked by our Buxton family. They threw us a going away party including a coast guard cake. It was a mixed evening as we did greatly miss our "glue", Bernice, but we did do his favorite cheers and played his songs. 
This as "B" at New Years at Mike and DeDe's Tiki Bar. This was also where the going away party was. This is how we like to remember the man that forever changed us. We fell in love with the island once we met Bernice and our future family. Thankfully, there's the internet and cell phones so keeping in touch will not be too hard. Sunday's will be spent on the phone catching up with Laura, his college roommates Dave and Sue, Aly and Andy, Leah and Tommy (and Nova), Lindsey Billy and Gayle, DeDe and Mike, Marshall, Rosie, Marty and Kathy, Jesse and Mark, Edgar, Chuck and John, also my family that has already left: Kelly and Joel and Joni and her babies.. Order is not of importance, but just as I looked at a picture of everyone. Rosie got a cake made for the party to mark Steve's promotion from BM2 to BM1. We've promised to come back every June and also to send crab to them from the West Coast. Below is our family. 
Here we are being silly about to cut the cake. 
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This last 2 months has been super emotional for us all, but we are stoked to start a new adventure and expand our family even more! Currently we are hanging out in Gastonia, NC with my family. We've gone golfing and trying to be lazy. I will post throughout our trip across the country. We already had a small scare with our cat. She got loose and ran into the woods in Plymouth and I had a doozy of a time getting her out.
