A day at the beach

We spend Saturday at Newport beach...is 6 hours long enough? It was a lot of fun. The kids were very excited and had trouble falling asleep the night before. Kaiya came out of her room an hour after going to bed to use the bathroom and asked "is it Saturday yet?" When morning came they were up and ready to go at 6:30 but we coaxed them into another hour of sleep. (thank goodness!) When we reached the beach we set up and covered ourselves in sunblock and took the kids down to the water. Jarron started to cry as soon as the cold water hit his toes. He wanted me to hold him, and I wanted him to play so I held his hand and we took off towards the water....as soon as the wave started to come our way I turned us around and we ran for the beach! Then he was all smiles!! That was the game for the rest of the day chase the wave, then run from it before it gets you. We took our buckets and shovels and tried to build sand castles but Jarron had other ideas. He smashed or kicked all that we built, so we gave up and just let him dig in the sand.












Here's Jarron with Rylee, he wanted to sit in the big chair and as soon as he did she started telling him about all the fun she had with her daddy. Then she moved her chair closer to him and they just sat and talked to each other, it was TOO cute!

Turning Tears into smiles!

Kaiya pulling her legs up so the wave wont get her.

Some of the Girls: Karissa, Teresa, Jessica, Amy, Me, Amy and Amber (missing in photo Jenn, Mary and Jennifer)
We had a blast!!