Father's Day

It has become a tradition to make a trip to the beach for Father's day. There's no better way to honor a dad, especially one who loves the ocean, then a relaxing day at the beach, spending time as a family, in the sun, listening to the surf, relaxing. It was wonderful! We've been pretty busy, or sick, so it's been awhile since we had a relaxing weekend. And to make it better, there were hardly any people there. It almost felt like we had the beach to ourselves.



She was hugging the umbrella, I don't know...





No big sand castle this time. But Nathan was very proud of his little one

We stopped in Santa Clarita at Claim Jumper for dinner. It was a very good day!

Sunday we relaxed at home and then went to my parents for dinner. We were in charge of dessert.


I bet you didn't know you could hire super heroes to help in the kitchen.
They do a pretty good job.



Here we are making tarts, lemon and blueberry.
We also made brownie bites and rice crspy treats. Yum!


I hope everyone had a nice Father's Day.

To the beach!

We went to Goleta beach last Wednesday with the Hansen side. Jen and her family were here from Virginia. California was just one of their many stops. It was so good to see them. We hadn't met each others youngest. The kids had such a great time hanging out.

Krystal rode with us to the beach, her and Nathan fell asleep on Teresa - so cute!

It was a little foggy and cold, but the fog cleared up and none of the kids complained about it being cold. They were having too much fun.

I love this picture of the boys. Myrna had boogie boards for the kids to play on

Nathan is burying Diesel's feet. Diesel is the Mattson's dog

Everyone pitching in to build a sand structure. Later it was decorated with seaweed

The "sand" was more like dirt at this beach. Nathan was SO dirty. Before we left the kids gathered a huge pile of seaweed

The beach wasn't the greatest beach, but the kids didn't care. They had such a great time! It was hard to say goodbye, but I don't think we will soon forget the fun we had.

A fun Week

Monday the kids had their well child visits. Nathan's height and weight are in the 95th percentile - but he's been like that his whole life :) Teresa's height is in the 70th % and weight in the 50th%. Tall and thin! She is 4ft 11in. Poor Teresa had to get 3 shots. This called for ice cream before lunch.

Yes, this is Teresa eating her ice cream with a small Baskin Robbins sample spoon, and the empty cone. She ate the cone too, just not with the ice cream.

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That afternoon Emily came up with the 3 boys to spend time with us :D

We had a fun BBQ over at James and Amanda's.

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Then Tuesday we all went to the beach. We didn't want to fight LA traffic so we headed west to Avila Beach. There were a lot of people, but we didn't mind, we only needed a small spot to sit and play in the sand.

We dove right in to the sand, Nathan and I played in the waves for awhile and then back to the sand.

We saw 100's of seals swim by. It was so cool! They came very close to the wave line too. The Pelicans were following the seals. There must have been some feast.

The kids found a clam and a sea snail to harass while they were there. When we were leaving they spotted an injured Pelican coming up the beach. Poor thing had a hook in it's wing. Someone called animal control to come help it.

This is just a strange car we saw on our way home. It said Dob Robot or something like that

Father's Day Weekend

It was a very nice weekend.
First, we made donuts and sausage for breakfast on Saturday. They were yummy, so bad for us, but yummy.



Then we went to Ventura Beach for the day. Oh, Jonathan's gift was a new beach chair. It was super cold and windy when we first got there, but it didn't take long to warm up. As you can see we love to play in the sand. We didn't do any swimming, but we played in the water a little bit. The beach we usually go to has rip tides now :(



The kids are chasing the birds



We dug 2 deep holes and then a tunnel

Nathan colapsed the bridge with his face, mouth open. He had sand EVERYWHERE, mouth, ears, nose, luckily he closed his eyes.
The kids always want to be buried in the sand

A little fun in the water





Sunday I spent the morning baking cookies and preparing lunch to take to Tehachapi. Ty and Michelle came with us and we had lunch with John and Mary. It was really nice.

This is the kids being funny on our way home from Tehachapi



After that we headed to my folks house for dinner and visiting.

All in all a great weekend. Now on to the next event - Teresa's birthday on Wed. and Party on Sat.