Summer Vacation!

This year we were able to spend a week in beautiful southern California. We drove there, so we stopped in Las Vegas, but most of our trip we spent at Zuma Beach in Malibu! Spencer and I love, love, love the beach! We could spend an entire week there. But for the kids sake we spent one day at the pool and one day at the Santa Monica Pier. We had a wonderful time, and looking back at the pictures it makes us long to be there again. 

Cy didn't enjoy the ocean, so we would make a little "pool" in the sand, we would dig it where the tide would fill it up occasionally, Cy and Ana really loved that! Cy spent everyday digging, making towers, and building sand castles, that's what he loves to do. Cy and Eva would also "make cake" out of sand of course. Eva was a little intimidated by the waves, but really enjoyed going out with mom or dad. Eva loved collecting special rocks and sea shells, and flying her kite. JJ really got a hang of boogie boarding, he really enjoyed that, and he was really good to help the little ones build sand castles and dig up pools! Lil Ana learned that if she very sweetly asked for your hand that we would walk her down to the water. She really enjoyed the water, and our little pools!

We really enjoyed our time at the Santa Monica Pier. The kids got to go on lots of rides!

Vegas

Epic Summer

At the beginning of summer I had read and article about "Mom's summer bucket lists." Basically it talked about how Moms are stressing themselves out trying to do this and do that. I decided that I wanted to do something everyday, but most days were very simple like playing on the slip n slide, or baking cookies together. We did go on a lot of "field trips" too, over all we had a really fun summer, and I'm a lil sad that its coming to an end. These are highlights from our summer:

We enjoyed many trips to the park, hanging out in the backyard, and playing with cousins and friends...

JJ at his first scout camp

JJ got to go canyoneering with Dad, Uncle Jeff, and Uncle Ryan

JJ lost his second tooth on this trip!

 

Spending the day at the rec center is always one of our favorite activities!

We had an epic adventure starting with a float down the river, followed by a bike ride, and a stop at Bridal Veil Falls! What a day!!!

I wanted to throw in some "field trips" that we could learn about animals ect...

We went to the aquarium, planetarium, farm, dinosaur museum, children's museum,  zoo, and the curiosity museum!

JJ got to canoe the Green River with Spencer!!!

We did a lot of hiking...

And here we are at the top of the world, well maybe just Snowbird!