The beach!

Well, one of the first things we did when we got to Grandma's house, is head for the beach.

It was a tad chilly, so Logan opted to stay up on the sand with me...

while Grandma and Chloe searched the shore for some treasures.

 

The beach above was really just a walking beach.   The next day we headed over to our favorite beach for tide pools, but were so disappointed.   There was hardly any sea life.  Only a few star fish, way out in the water, no crabs and only a few sea anemones.  But they did have a couple of cool caves!

So the next day, we tried Strawberry Hill, just up the coast a bit.

This beach was perfect!  Caves, cool driftwood, lots of star fish, anemones, sea urchins and a whole group of sea lions swimming in to get on the rocks.

Seeing how the water had shoved this giant log into a hole in the rock was pretty impressive.  

Logan loved it!  It has now been dubbed, Logan's Log.

Most of the time, we had the beach, and the seal lions, all to our selves.  

We saw two other families the whole time we were there.  

We watched about 12  sea lions swim in, search for the best place to hoist up onto the rocks, and settle in to soak up some sun.

This little one was just a baby.  She swam around the cove, jumping up on rock, then slipping off until her mom came in (we think).  Then she joined her up on the rocks.

 

 

 

 

A few days later we headed over to South Jetty, a beach I use to visit every summer with my Grandparents when I was Chloe's age.

 

The wind was wicked,

But the kids still managed to have fun.

Ah, my little angels!

Our Oregon Family

As always, we had a wonderfully, exhausting time in Oregon.
The weather was better than we expected, with a nice chill to the air and lots of sunshine...

but the best part was spending time with our Oregon family.

Yes...these two are family too!

Finally . . .

We went.  We saw.  We LOVED!

 I had several other pictures of our trip to the movies, but, for the life of me, can't seem to find them.

So, what else have we been doing?

No much.

But here are a couple pictures of the dogs!

 And a flower design that I practiced on Daisy's cake.

(Dawn made the cake and I added the flower)

 And our attempt at face painting, a great way to kill a rainy afternoon.

 I found a how to video on You Tube for a dinosaur.

Logan was happy with it, so it's all good!

We are busy getting ready for our trip to Oregon so probably no posts till we get up there.

I can't wait to get to cooler weather!

9 days and counting . . .

 

So Chloe will be done with book 7 just in time to see the final installment on the big screen.

Since the whole family will be going, we won't be going to the midnight showing.  But we'll all be there, bright and early Saturday morning, eager for our day of family bonding with all our Hogwart friends.

Most boring post EVER!

SO.... we've been laying low the past week or so.  It's been WONDERFUL!

Unfortunately, the down side to that is that we really have no exciting photos to share.

Craig and I celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary with a nice dinner out and a movie.  

But, alas, no pictures.

We had a little BBQ with several friends and had a blast.  But again, no pictures.

Since we are in the middle of a horrible drought, we will have no neighborhood fireworks show. 

  Which, means...yep, no pictures.   

So what can I show you?

Well we did get some rain....A lot of rain in a little amount of time to be exact. 

  It's been far too long since we've had a rain storm like this.  

And we did get to the movies today with Gary and Dad to see Transformers 3.   It was pretty good.  But, if you ask me, I'd say those darn Autobots took WAY too long to kick some Decepticon butt.   The movie would have been much better if it were about 1/2 an hour shorter.... But that's just my 2 cents.

 Logan liked it.

And I was working with our three delinquents on their obedience skills.   

Sitting for this picture was about as far as we got.

But I like to think we've made progress...

And we went to Splashtown...again.

So that's it.   

We'll be winding up this 4th of July sitting on the couch, watching Rocky III and eating ice cream.

Which, honestly, sounds fantastic!

Night!

Old Friends

The only thing better than making new friends . . .. 

Is reconnecting with old ones.

Jodie and I met 17 years ago, in the October new hire class at AirTouch Cellular. Jodie was there to help me plan my wedding and even made the 400 mile journey to Lake Tahoe to  help celebrate with Craig and I.

We hadn't seen each other in 12 years, since the day she moved to Arkansas to begin a new adventure.    Seeing her again was just like old times, with the addition of some adorable boys and a husband I finally had the pleasure of meeting.

Seeing Jodie made me realize that, a true friend will be just as special to you, whether you've seen her 12 minutes or 12 years ago.

Love ya Jodie.

And we will definitely be heading your way soon for a visit!

My Summer Project

 I saw one of these and just had to try to make one.  I ran right out and bought some thongs (YES, where I come from, we call them thongs!)  and a few embellishments and got right to work.

 Logan's teacher had one of these on her back fence by her pool.  

Which really is where it should be.

But I loved it so much I had to put it on our front door.

It says Beach Bum Hideaway

I can't wait til Craig gets home to see it.

He is gonna LOVE it!  

(did you catch the heavy sarcasm in that?)

But...no matter... I love it.

When it falls apart, Chloe will have 6 new pair of thongs to wear!  

Now that's recycling!

Our down time

So we finally got a little down time, here's what we've been doing.

Made a cake for our friends movie party.

Eating LOTS of shaved ice.

 

Celebrated Craig's birthday with a date night with our friends Paula and Hector at Benihana.

 

(and yes, I did eat all of his birthday ice cream)

 Saving birds that fly into our house.  This little guy came flying in after we got home from Benihana's. You know it's hot out when the birds don't even want to stay outside!

Curled Chloe's hair.

Lisa, Ally, I finally got those curlformers.  They worked great until the humidity got to her. 

But she loved it so I have no doubt we'll be using them again soon.

And going to Splashtown A LOT!

Peace out!