Tuesday, June 15, 2010

CALIFORNIA TRIP: Part 1

On June 5th we arrived at the beach house!

It was on Capistrano Beach,
which is between Dana Point & San Clemente

Right out the back door was this....

It was beautiful.

The first day....

We flew out in the afternoon with our little family, my mom & dad & my sister Shelly.
On the way there, the plane was kind of small. We actually had to walk out on the tarmac & climb up stairs to get in. It wasn't my favorite ride...on take off, it kept floating up & down like it almost couldn't make it up! Luckily we arrived safely!!

Then we picked up our "15" passenger van...that was an experience all in itself. Big van, confusing freeways & Steve's driving ;) made for a fun adventure!


Our kids were very excited to see the ocean was right out the door!

We all ran straight to the ocean.

Steve & Tyler Man
After we got the van unloaded we were in search of a Walmart or grocery store & a place to eat. Eventually we found a Lone Star & target.

THE BEACH...
This was one of the best parts of the whole trip. It was a little cooler weather than we thought it would be (The people in California call it June gloom) but it was still so beautiful.


I love the sound of waves

Me & Libby

The rock & shell collectors....Zack, Shelly & Tyler

They collected buckets like this everyday!


Almost every morning, I would wake up & see this out the sliding door. They would wake up early & Go play in the waves & start their rock collecting.

Libby & Zack
LOVED running & splashing in the water



Zack with a "real" smile on his face.

Libby is a water girl!

Tyler loved sliding down the sand hill....
Unfortunately, he got to taste the yucky salt water when a wave went over is head. He spit all the way back to the house!

As you can see he's still in his pajamas, they'd wake up & head outside.


sail boats

Grandma & Grandpa


Zack, Libby, Pa-Pa & Tyler


Grandma & Grandpa Steen with the boys.


Me & Steve

My next post will be Disneyland & the American Girl Store adventure. Sorry for all the pictures, but I love pictures so there are many more to come!



5 comments:

Natallee said...

Looks like a Super fun trip! We LOVE beach trips!! I'm glad you guys had a great time!

Shelly said...

Let's go BACK!!!!! Do you miss me yet??? lol

Shauna said...

Awesome! It was over way too fast. If Utah had an ocean. . . life would be perfect!

pan x 8 said...

That is way awesome! Totally - my kids would be out there in their pajamas too! Love the rock collecting!

Shelly said...

I wish we had a scale at the beach house- I could have put another 13 lbs. of rocks in my suitcase!!!!!!