Thursday, June 02, 2011

California Trip: Day 4- Sunday

We spent the morning at church where Ross was repeatedly mistaken for Joe. There were some excellent lessons given that we all discussed throughout the day. I love lessons like that. Later that day we had an excellent ham dinner, but while we waited for the family to arrive, Ross took us on a tour of the ranch.




There was potential for seriously cute pictures in here with the lighting, buy my crippling arachnophobis would not permit me to enter, so we had to make do withe the zoom. I freakin' HATE spiders!
Ross grabbed some flakes of hay to get the cows to come and see the girls.



This little guy was hangin' out by the porch and Emma loved it. She was disappointed, however, that he didn't change colors like Pascal.

Boy toys!

Uncle Troy played this cute game with Emma and Macie.

After dinner we chatted and watched our kids be cute with each other. My kids really love their cousins! I wish we could get them all together more often. I suppose the distance does make their time together more special, though.

California Trip: Day 3

We had originally planned to spend this day in Sacramento seeing the sites there and trading off watching the kids and attending the temple. However, after a day of driving to the beach (7 hour round trip) the day before and noting the chunk of change we were putting into ga$, we decided to take it easy this day.

We didn't do anything huge or vacationy except relax. We swam in the pool, played in the rain, had a fun lunch at Red Robin walked around the mall, bought Jack's first shoes, watched a movie at the hotel, played in the hot tub, went out for a quick dinner, got ice cream, and came back to the hotel for another movie and more snuggling. It was exactly what we needed!

Here are some pictures.








Wednesday, June 01, 2011

California Trip Day Two: The Beach

I love the beach, so I took lots of pictures. Enjoy.




























Jack's first time in the ocean.















I love pebbly sand. So pretty!


Califronia Trip Day 2: The Oyster Farm

After lounging on the beach, we decided to check out the oyster farm. There were signs pointing to it, and we were curious. It was cool. They even let Ross try a little one for free. He liked it! :)

We bought a jar of freshly picked and shelled oysters for my family and went shell seeking on the beach there.


There was no sand- just shells. I have never seen anything like it. We tried to find some unbroken shells for souvenirs.




We saw Sebastien and some of his little black friends.
Can you spot the tiny black crab?
This was such an educational and unique experience. I am glad we stopped by there. We stopped at a Red Lobster on the way back to the hotel to enjoy some crab legs, shrimp, lobster tail, and clam chowder. The hostess even took a live lobster out of the tank for the kids to look at and touch. Awesome day!