7/25/09

LIFE AT THE BEACH!

Okay, so I thought I would share how we have been spending most of our days while we've been here in sunny California!  
The typical day: 
Wake up, work out at the gym in our condos.
Make breakfast for Jeff and the kids, and send Jeff of to the office.
Ask the girls what they want to do for the day, and get the same answer every day.
"Go To The Beach!"
We pack up our stuff, and head to the beach until Paisley is ready to fall asleep standing.
Head home, and put Paisley down for her nap while we eat a late lunch, and read. (I'm such a mean mom.  I make my kids read, and do a math page each day)
Jeff gets home from work, and working out, and we all head back to the beach.
Leave the beach, and go back to the condos to swim, and sit in the hot tub.

We were asked to have our picture taken for the Huntington Beach website!  They thought we were a cute family. Ha Ha  To bad we all look so tossed up after 6 hours of swimming, and playing in the sand!  They also took some cute pictures of our girls playing, and put them in an Add for Huntington beach.  It's kind of a fun keepsake of our trip!

Laying out in the sun!  We are all getting so brown!

Finally crashed and burned in the warm sun!  She plays so hard all day!

My girls have had so much fun catching all of the fun ocean critters!  This has probably been their favorite thing to do!
Addison caught a star fish, and was thrilled that she gets to bring it home!

Some cute little boys taught the girls how to catch crabs in the rocks.  The girls spend hours catching mussels, and crabs, just to let them go when its time to leave!


Paisley wants to touch everything!  She loves to hold all of the sea creatures the girls catch.  She is getting better at being gentle, and we've only had a few squished sand crabs.

YES! the big ones pinch!

To get to the beach from where we are it's about a 10 minute walk!  We are staying in the condos at the top of this hill! 
When I take the girls down to the beach without Jeff we walk!  When Jeff comes with us, we usually ride our bikes!  

Ellie's watching  Jeff body surf!  He is getting really good!
It seems like Ellie never gets out of the water.  That girl stays in for hours at a time!

Jeff out swimming with the two big girls!

He's looking Hot!

The girls have become experts at catching sand crabs, they have caught at least 100! 
 Paisley is scared of the waves, so she stays out of the water unless we are holding her hand.  This has made it so nice for me not having to worry about her in the water.  Notice in the picture she is up on the beach where the water cant reach her.  Its so funny to watch her run up and down the beach with each wave, so she wont get wet!
While the girls are in the water, Paisley is flirting and talking with everyone on the beach.  She is such a funny little girl!  She has made so many friends at the beach.  People get a kick out of her being so social!

This is one of the larger sand crabs that the girls catch.  Not very cute!
We have been having so much fun, and cant believe it's almost over!

7/22/09

4TH OF JULY IN HUNTINGTON BEACH

Our first weekend in Cali was the 4th of July.  We got up early and went down the street to Kevin's house (Jeff's friend) which is right on Huntington beach.  We picked up Kevin, and his two cute girls, and walked down the street to watch the big Huntington beach parade.  After the parade we went down to the beach, and spent the day swimming, laying out, and the girls tried body boarding for the first time.  They were like pros!
After a day at the beach, we had a little BBQ at Kevin's, and packed up for an evening on Kevin's 52 foot boat to watch the fire works over the bay!  


(Jeff went to the front of the boat to secure some pads, so they wouldn't blow away!)

While we were out on the boat the swells started to get a little to big for some of the kids on the boat, so we decided to go back, and watch the fire works on Kevin's front lawn!




This gives you an idea of how large the boat was.  This is the dinning room.  There are 2 baths and two bedrooms.  NICE!!
The girls loved chilling!

Watching the fireworks!

Were missing Ellie in this pic, but have Alex hanging out with us keeping warm!
We had a great forth!!

OUR HOME FOR A MONTH!

When we arrived in New Port at the condo we had rented for the month.  We were a little disappointed with how it looked!  It was an older condo that had been remodeled, on a budget.
We decided who cares we are in Cali, for a month to just relax and enjoy the sun.  We are just a 10 minute walk from the beach, and in heaven!
 
Welcome to our Home!

The main bath, that the girls use!

The room the girls are staying in!

The living room kitchen!  
The girls thought it was cool that the kitchen bar, lights up! 
It's good times!

GETTING READY FOR CALIFORNIA

I was busy, busy, busy, getting ready for our month long trip to California.  I pulled out the sewing machine, and made two new skirts for each of the girls, and a new dress for Addie, and Paisley!  It's been a lot of fun getting these projects finished!  

Fun summer skirts!

Fourth of July skirts!

This is not a very good pic of Paisleys dress.  It turned out so cute!

Addison helped me make her dress!  She helped me with the elastic thread on the top.  She did a great job!

I thought I better clean out, and wash Paisleys car seat before we made her sit in it for 11 hours.  I about threw up!! It was so full of old moldy food.  I'm embarrassed to even tell anyone. ( Note to self: Clean out car seat at least once a month!!)

Lets just say we couldn't fit another thing in our truck!  We were so packed to the brim!  A girl has got to have her stuff, and we have three of them!
We stopped in St. George for the night, and finished the rest of the drive to Cali the next day, so the trip wasn't too bad!