Yayyyy Newport Beach!! Taylin really had fun. She was so tired of me taking her pictures every second of the day. We spent the whole week at Mom and Dad's villa. It was so nice and relaxing. We hated to come home.
This is at the beach. Clay really is a fish. He hit the boogie board and would not get off for nothing. I begged him to share with his Uncle Mckay and he finally did. That's Mckay and Tracy in the background. Probably Kayla on the left too, not sure.
Mckenna acting sooo cool with the boogie board. Needless to say the boogie board did not survive the entire vacation. It was well used and finally broke in half.
Taylin with one of her many seashells. We finally limited it to 5 for taking home. She took like 30 of the seashells from this unnamed beach. The next day we found out that it is a protected beach and you are not allowed to take any souvenirs. Ooops.
Kayla burrying Taylin. She loved it. We tried to bury Clay but he was too busy surfing.
The awesome Christensen family. We were sure glad to have them there to entertain the kids. Taylin played with her friend Brooke today and couldn't stop calling her Ginger. They will have some great memories.
Sunset on Newport Beach. Natalie, Tracy and Taylin. Everybody else was in the water.
We went to Knottsberry farm one day. We decided we wouldn't do that again in the summer. It was too hot. The kids had fun though.
Driving the truck.
Driving the train.
Riding the train. We were the last ones on and had to sit in the sun, notice the people in the nicely covered shade? It was alright, we had a light breeze.
This is at the beach. Clay really is a fish. He hit the boogie board and would not get off for nothing. I begged him to share with his Uncle Mckay and he finally did. That's Mckay and Tracy in the background. Probably Kayla on the left too, not sure.
Mckenna acting sooo cool with the boogie board. Needless to say the boogie board did not survive the entire vacation. It was well used and finally broke in half.
Taylin with one of her many seashells. We finally limited it to 5 for taking home. She took like 30 of the seashells from this unnamed beach. The next day we found out that it is a protected beach and you are not allowed to take any souvenirs. Ooops.
Kayla burrying Taylin. She loved it. We tried to bury Clay but he was too busy surfing.
The awesome Christensen family. We were sure glad to have them there to entertain the kids. Taylin played with her friend Brooke today and couldn't stop calling her Ginger. They will have some great memories.
Sunset on Newport Beach. Natalie, Tracy and Taylin. Everybody else was in the water.
We went to Knottsberry farm one day. We decided we wouldn't do that again in the summer. It was too hot. The kids had fun though.
Driving the truck.
Driving the train.
Riding the train. We were the last ones on and had to sit in the sun, notice the people in the nicely covered shade? It was alright, we had a light breeze.
The next day was the Angels game. They played the Detroit Tigers (Clay's little league team). Notice the shirt? We didn't get into one fight at all. It was Mormon something or other night and they had a stake choir sing the National anthem and a Mormon quartet come out for the 7th inning stretch for Take me out to the ballgame. It was fun.
Of course we had to have cotton candy and hot dogs...
and number 1 hands (or whatever they are called).
A lovely picture taken from Taylin. They had great fireworks after the game. I'll try and get the videos up. It was the best I ever saw. They have them every Friday night so if you ever get down there. Also we made it through the whole game.
Last day at the beach. Boo-hoo we were so sad but enjoyed the last day. Grandpa Joe got in many times and surfed the waves. We had the cameras ready in case we had a repeat of Grandpa Moss falling in the waves. Unfortunately or fortunately it did not happen. He kept up with the best of them.
Last day we had to trade the boogie board for a pink floaty ring. He still had fun.
Our little beach beauty. She loved Newport Beach but was happy to return to Las Vegas. Now for the exciting news... Mom and Dad suckered us in to buy a time share. Not really, Travis was really in to it and thinks it will only give us great family memories. It's gonna be great. It's a guaranteed family vacation for a week. Oh and if you get a call from Marriott villa's, you can thank me later. I had to give a list of family and friends for referrals to get extra points. So if I didn't call you to get permission sorry. Just know that I thought of each of you on vacation. Love ya!!!
Of course we had to have cotton candy and hot dogs...
and number 1 hands (or whatever they are called).
A lovely picture taken from Taylin. They had great fireworks after the game. I'll try and get the videos up. It was the best I ever saw. They have them every Friday night so if you ever get down there. Also we made it through the whole game.
Last day at the beach. Boo-hoo we were so sad but enjoyed the last day. Grandpa Joe got in many times and surfed the waves. We had the cameras ready in case we had a repeat of Grandpa Moss falling in the waves. Unfortunately or fortunately it did not happen. He kept up with the best of them.
Last day we had to trade the boogie board for a pink floaty ring. He still had fun.
Our little beach beauty. She loved Newport Beach but was happy to return to Las Vegas. Now for the exciting news... Mom and Dad suckered us in to buy a time share. Not really, Travis was really in to it and thinks it will only give us great family memories. It's gonna be great. It's a guaranteed family vacation for a week. Oh and if you get a call from Marriott villa's, you can thank me later. I had to give a list of family and friends for referrals to get extra points. So if I didn't call you to get permission sorry. Just know that I thought of each of you on vacation. Love ya!!!
This is the kids collecting good walking sticks for one of our many hikes.
Nice Stance!!
Taylin's my little rabbit. She will eat anything. Travis happenened to be cutting up salad ingredients and she took a big ol' chunk out of the cabbage. She loved it and ended up eating half the head.
Travis took Taylin up to Ely (Cave lake) during finals so I couldn't go and Clay was still in school. They had fun and caught lots of fish. This is the picture Taylin took, isn't it great?
Yet another fish at Cave Lake. It is really pretty up there.
We smuggled Keo up there too. Not too smart cause he took off after I let him off his leash. Luckily we found him and he did not go to far, he stayed close to the Lake.
This is Kayla and Mckenna, ever so cute!!!