Highlights From Summer

Just a few highlights from summer.....

Carly's Birthday

The Getty Museum

Grandma Sandy!!!!

(can you find her through all the hugs?)

Grandma Sandy with Logan

Beach with Family and Friends

Carly & Grandma Sandy

Robert & Shawn

(Hiding the bodies I presume)

Dolphins!!!!

Carly & Andrew

Rob & Carly hangin' with their posse

Ahhhh!! Good times! And then......

The First Day of School :(

Disneyland

It's been just about a year since we went to Disneyland. We were well over do. I took Rob out of school and met Stephanie & Sydney Lovio and Liz Rose and kids down there and had a wonderful day. It would be an understatement by saying we had a good time:

(Back Row) Aladin, Jasmine, Sidney, Stephanie, (front row) Sara

Sidney was so excited when she saw Jasmine. She was beside herself. She so desperately wanted a picture with her, but wouldn't do it without her mama. And, of course, Little Miss Sara couldn't resist the picture either. We love you, Sara!

Robert wanted a picture too, but he didn't want a picture with Jasmine. Afterall, he only has eyes for his mama!

Heading over to California Adventure. Haven't yet gotten all the way through California Adventure. It's a great park, but it's not Disneyland :)

We found the perfect post to watch the parade come through at California Adventure. Don't you love the wonderment of childhood?

We ate dinner in Fantasyland around 7:30pm and the kids were still wound up. Can you blame them? Afterall, it is Disneyland!

I know I say this a lot. But I really do love California and all it has to offer. The weather was absolutely perfect and the fact that we were able to go with such great friends made it an absolutely supercalifragilisticexpialidocious day!

Saturday

We had a great Saturday.

Mike was called away so it was just me and the kids. The morning was so nice and peaceful. The kids were content just hanging out in their rooms doing whatever so I took the opportunity to finish up my Prop 8 phone calls. I was so proud of myself 'cuz I finished them all in an hour and a 1/2. Yeah! Robert did his homework and then we took the dogs to the beach. I heard there was an off leash dog beach up in Santa Barbara so I thought it would be fun to take a road trip up there.

We made it to Santa Barbara, but I don't know what happened because the place we ended up was just an off leash nature reserve which was no big deal and it wasn't enclosed so I was constantly stressed about losing one of the dogs. However, we found a little gully that Carly got stuck in. Here's what she looked like when we came out of there:

I couldn't help but laugh.

Since the Santa Barbara Off Leash Beach was a bust we headed back home. We hit McDonald's on the way back and for the first time in about 20 years I had a Big Mac. I don't know what I was thinking but I was craving something fat and sloppy. And it was disgusting. I won't do that again.

On the way back we stopped at a private beach just outside of Ventura and had a blast. Robert was able to play in the water:

Carly played in the sand:

And the doggies had a blast:

We had a great time. After a while we headed back home. All in all it was a lot of fun. I really love hanging out with the kids. They make me laugh and I just love every moment with them.

Always making memories.......