Big Sur Camping 2014

We were able to get a last minute reservation at Pfeiffer big sur state park. It was such a beautiful camp ground and we had a great time. We camped with two other families with kids of similar ages.

Dylan loving the binoculars the whole trip

Most of the kid crew, we biked over to the creek

hiking down hill after making it up to the pfeiffer falls 

Grandma P's Birthday in Sonoma

We met up with Grandma Penny and family to celebrate a special birthday! Picnic in the park, train town with cousin, winery and dinner out! Fun day :-)

Cousins at train town

hanging out at Sebastiani  winery

ice cream with grandma

Grandma bought the boys these cool push bikes! 

iphone Photo Dump

Some highlights of summer from the iphone

Picking carrots at Q's and M's granparents

Magna tile building

Hitting Powells with Dylan for treats

Logan at Tball camp

Boys enjoying the tire swing I made

Dylans celebration lunch when he passed level 1 swimming

Gilroy gardens fun

Green bean harvest from our garden

Elks club swimming fun! 

Swimming Fun

The boys just finished the last swim blitz of the summer, we did 6 weeks of daily lessons throughout the 3 month summer break. They love lessons, and did so amazing through the summer. Logan started and ended the summer in level 3, and Dylan started in level 1 and ended in level 2. Here is a video of Dylan learning his roll overs, you can also see Logan in the corner getting help with his breaststroke kick. And a video of Logan learning side breathing and backstroke.

Cousin Camping 2014

The boys had a great time camping with cousins this year. We camped at Portola Redwoods. It was such a beautiful camping area, the redwood trees area giant. The kids were dirty and happy! We camped with my cousin and her two girls, and my cousins sister in law with her daughter and my aunt. The kids were so happy to play games, crafts and eat s'mores.

pictures with a flag I got on sale after the 4th. I think we need a Canadian Flag! Grandma June??

hanging out by the camp fire

S'more time! 

3 year olds

5 year olds

All the cute kiddos

kids found a banana slug

We took a day trip out to Pescadero. It was so clear and beautiful, but SO windy. The wind was so bad the sand was beating us down. Kids were crying. We had to leave after about an hour. I wish we could have hung out longer!

Back at the camp the kids loved the art supplies I threw into a bin.

The kids really wanted to sleep an extra night, but the adults were done. Camping with kids is a lot of work but its worth it!

Summer Beach House

We just returned from a great summer vacation! We rented a beach house for 4 nights. The house was close to the beach, and the location was about an hours drive for us from home. It was perfect for the kids. They loved it and didn't want to leave. The house fit the four of us, it was two blocks from the beach and had a hot tub in the backyard plus a place for the kids to ride bikes. We went from the beach back to the house, and lots of time in the hot tub.

We mostly hit the beach everyday. I rented a wet suit and body board hoping to take the kids out in the ocean without freezing! All was going well with Logan, but he hit a wave at the wrong angle (head on) and he was done. We did get him to try again a few days later but it was really quite a challenge.

playing the swing around game

Dylan chasing a bird the size of him

Andrew is a good hole digger! 

finally after lots of crying, very proud body boarder!

Hanging out at the house, the kids found lots of games to play. Logan and Andrew played chess together, Logan is now obsessed!

My parents also rented a house close by so we had dinners together, and even a date night one night!

Kids rode bikes to pleasure point to watch the surfers 

snow cones at pleasure point

Our last night we took the kids to the boardwalk. During the summer weekday months, the boardwalk runs specials. If you bring a pepsi can you can get a huge discount off tickets. We went on a wed and got wrist bands for everyone for $13.00 each , we could ride all the rides as many times as we wanted. Kids were in heaven, they love the boardwalk. Even more then they love disneyland. We rode on the log ride 2x, on the first round Logan started to freak out right at the top of the big drop. But once we hit the bottom he screamed that he wanted to go again! Andrew loves rides and doesn't get sick thankfully, he took the kids on most of the big ones and anything that spins!

On our way home, we wanted to drive up the coast on hwy 1. It was just a little longer drive but very beautiful. We stopped at the pigeon point lighthouse, and Pescardero for lunch. The boys and I are going camping soon by Pescadero and wanted to scope out some lunch spots. We had lunch at duarte's tavern and had some amazing food. Picked up a yummy artichoke bread and pie at norms market. All were so good.