More Beach

 Wednesday was all about have fun and seeing friends.  We woke up and rode bikes down to La Jolla Cove.  The kids thought that was pretty cool.  Nothing beats exercising right next to the beach.

 After the bike ride and breakfast we headed to another favorite beach of ours, Coronado.  I really love this beach and the drive to it down the 5 freeway.  I just really find San Diego to be a beautiful city.

 After the beach and a quick shower we headed back into Scripps Ranch and visited friends.  The boys went to our next door neighbor's house to play and Lily went to our other neighbor's house.  They actually moved up the street after we left.  I went and got my hair cut and then picked up the girls to get their nails done. Lily misses living next door to Sinclair.

 After I picked the boys up we went over to the Woodard's house for dinner.  Lot's of fun and lots of eating occurred.  April and I couldn't decide if we wanted to eat or talk more.  It was so fun watching the kids play and have fun together.  It was a great end to a great day!

 Thursday was a day of closure.  It was really rough on Adam, Lily and I to leave a school we all love in the middle of the year, especially Adam who left in the middle of his last year.  I promised him that we would go to Jerabek for promotion ceremonies and to visit his friends on promotion day.  From the instant I walked through the office doors I was greeted with hugs and friendly faces who were so glad to see us.  We hadn't even been there a minute when one of the 5th grade moms saw us and ushered Adam off to practice for promotion on the field.

Lily went to her class for the day and Adam stayed with the 5th graders.  Noah went to help his old kindergarten teacher with her class and I spent the day visiting with friends.

After school got out we went to the pool.  It felt pretty normal to us.  We hung out there until it was time to go to promotion.  We say lots of old friends there are well and got to play catch up.  It was fabulous.

Adam got a certificate for Safety Patrol and for completing the 5th grade.  It was so good for him as well as for me.  It was a nice way to end the day.

Our Fabulous teacher Mrs. Watkins who continued to help Adam through 5th grade even after we moved.  She really goes over and beyond when it come to teaching.  We have missed her a lot this year since we have moved.

 We went to Chin's for dinner and finished the night with a trip to Sprinkles!  I don't think the kids will ever let us go to San Diego without stopping by Chin's. It was a great day!

A Week at the Beach!

We had one week of relative quiet in the house.  Noah was gone at scout camp and Adam was gone for 2 afternoon/evenings for cub camp.  It gave me enough time to clean, sort and pack for our next trip. 

We arrived in San Diego on Monday the 15th and the fun started and didn't stop until we left.  It was quite an exhausting week, but we loved every minute of it.  After shopping and unloading the car at the beach house we headed down to Pacific beach.

 

 

 An evening favorite thing to do is to walk down to the park and watch the sunset.  I never get tired of watching the sun set over the pacific!


Tuesday morning we headed into Scripps Ranch to pick up our old next door neighbor and go to the beach.  We did that so much last summer it seemed only normal to do the same this go around.  Even though it had been a year it felt like nothing had changed except all the kids are taller.  After a long chat with my wonderful neighbors we headed into one of our favorite beaches, Del Mar.

 The kids came home exhausted and sandy.  We went to go get Lily's haircut and ears pierced at Chloe's.  She has been wanting to do it there for a year, but hasn't been ready.  She was determined to be ready this time and through the tears and then the laughs she finally got her ears done!

After watching another beautiful sunset (better than Monday's) we headed into Pacific beach and ate dessert at the Half Baked Bear.  You can make your own ice cream sandwiches.  It was very good! We may make it a tradition.

July 1-6

Well the madness continued this week at the Afualo Abbey!  We made it a full and fun week. Tuesday we went up to Park City hoping to find relief from the heat down in the Valley.  No such luck.  It was really hot up there too, but we all enjoyed riding the alpine slide and alpine coaster.  It was a fun way to pass the day.

After another fun day at 7 peaks everyone came over for dinner on the 3rd of July so we started celebrating a little early.  We had yummy food, and fun, kid friendly fireworks!! 

We decided to have a 4th of July Breakfast Extravegaza!  It was a lot of fun and a lot of food and it was all red, white and blue!!  It was way yummy.  We listened to patriotic music, played nerts and had a hair day for all the girls.  Well, I did all the girls hair.

The traditional Flag Cake!

Love my Family!!

Love my sisters!!

We went to Stadium of Fire down in Provo the evening of the 4th.  Carly Rae Jepson and Kelly Clarkson were performing.  It was quite the event and we all had a really great time.  The girls loved singing along to Call Me Maybe and Good Times!

 One of the dances that we watched.  They were giant slinkies.  Way cool!!

 Noah had a swim meet at 7am on the 5th of July.  That was a tough one.  It was all the way out in Magna which is about 35 minutes from us.  Noah gave it his best effort and is posting consistent times in his events.  That means it's time to go faster.  He had a meet the morning of the 6th as well.  These double headers are brutal. 

 We had a church activity on the 5th of July in our neighborhood.  It was a bike parade and ice cream social.  It was fun until the storm blew in and we had thunder, lightning and rain to deal with.  We made it home though before it got to crazy.

 Now everyone is gone and the house seems awfully quiet.  What a wild and crazy 2 weeks it has been.