Beach Week Part 2

Oh how we Love the Beach...

Another Eric Idea—
Bringing a Crab home (from the store, not the Beach) to Cook and Eat!

Don't think it tasted that Great... but sure was Great Entertainment!

Catching Sand Crabs

Even More Pictures to come!

Beach week 2010 • Part 1

Beach Week
Why does this week always go by So fast!
Once again we had a Fabulous time! (A bit Cold... but still Fabulous!)
Family, Friends, Good Food and all day Entertainment for the Kids— Always a GOOD thing!

Every time I would try and take a picture of Savvy she would try and attack me!

Gavin was so good on the beach. He would just walk around, find any ball he could find (usually a football that was as big as he is) and throw it to whomever would play catch. Other then his white skin—he was made for the beach.

The Cake the Girls made for me... They were playing Cake Boss! Yum

Sweet Shades!…Ryan

Now thats just Rude Spencer!

…More to come from our Fabulous Trip

CJ and Keri's Wedding in San Diego

First Stop on our week long Vacation to California
San Diego
for CJ and Keri's Wedding
They got married on Saturday, July 24th in the San Diego Temple

Ryan had to work the day before so we decided to just get up Really Early (like 3am early) so we could get to the temple by 10am. The plan was to get the kids out of bed once we were already to leave and they would go right back to sleep in the car and they would sleep most of the drive... we were way wrong—both kids were up...and very energized at 3am, Ava was awake the whole drive and Gavin slept for maybe an hour! Either way we got there in time for the wedding!
It was very nice to see some of my family and spend time with them!

Can you believe the Temple was all in scaffolding! Such a bummer, we were so excited to see the
"Princess Castle"
I felt so bad for all the brides... not a very pretty sight for all your wedding photos! I guess they gave all the couples photos of the temple, so there Photographers could photo shop the temple in the background! Super Lame!

We even got to see my Friend Lucy from High School! So bummed she didn't have her baby Betsy with her!

Best photo we got of all the kids

Congratulations CJ and Keri We love you guys!

After the Temple we headed to Old Towne San Diego for some Lunch. Fred's was a very good choice for some great Mexican Food!

Then it was off to our next stop
Silver Strand Beach
which took us 4 hours to get there... oh how i hate California Traffic
(at Least the kids slept most of the way)

Kids • Dogs & more Kids

Gavin— Our little Artist
He really loves to Color! He does it all time, on everything (not always a good thing) and he entertains himself for a very long time.

My favorite—is when he lays on the Floor and does it!

Is he right or left handed? Still haven't quite figured that out yet.
Not sure he even knows at this point.

A couple of weekends ago we had
2 dogs staying at our House!
Ellie and Fritz they are Miniature Schnauzers.
Ryan's Friend from Work was going to San Diego for the Weekend and Ryan offered our Services!
I have to say it was a little crazy having 2 kids and 2 dogs running around our house. Between the Yelling, Barking and crying our house was very Loud!
And it definitely didn't help that Fritz (the Bigger one) and Gavin did not get along! You see these dogs are not used to being around kids so when you have a little crazy kid coming at you that is the same size as you... you bark! And when that Crazy kid Hits you cause your Barking you Bark even More! So for the most part we had to separate Gavin and Fritz!

Oh but Ava Loved the Dogs! She did not let those dogs out of her sight! She was very cute with them…but it still doesn't make me want to have a dog—SORRY!

This is Gavin playing catch with Ellie. Both could play this all day if we let them.

We tried to take the dogs for a walk but we had to wait until the Sun went down, even then we were dying of Heat!
Ava was so sad when they left—she Cried…a lot!

That same week we Celebrated
Olivia's 9th Birthday!
One night—family Party with Cake and Ice Cream
and another day with Friends for Lunch and a Movie.
We went and Saw
Despicable Me (in 3D)
Very Funny Movie! Even ask Ava—I think she Laughed the whole movie!

Olivia— Hope you had a Great Birthday We love you!

Guys?

Just thought I would end this Post with 2 Awesome Pictures of my Kids!
(thanks Ava for another great self Portrait!)