September Beach Trip

Once school started in September, we weren't able to make it back down to the beach until the first weekend in October. We had a lot of fun, just hanging out as a family and great weather. The ocean did not cooporate for Mark to get one last fishing trip in (can anyone say, YAY! ?), so we did other fun things together like go down to Oceanside for the morning, walk to the beach and coffee shop and make fires in the back yard fire pit.

These are a few random pictures from that weekend.

Ok, terrible picture of pretty much all of us, but I wanted to include one of our breakfast out. We rarely go out to eat as a family. It's just too crazy. But we went out for breakfast one morning because we had to leave and didn't want to clean the kitchen up again :)

Waiting for our food to come. Can you feel their energy? :)

Willow is a Daddy's girl. She LOVES crawling all over him, saying 'dadda', and getting quick snuggles and kisses from him. Quick, because you know she is always on the move.

Journey and Willow playing dolls. Oh, and check out Journey's shoes.

The 'beach kitty'! It seems that wherever we go, there is a neighborhood cat that adopts us. The best kind of pet to have!

Over the weekend we worked a little more on clearing out the brush infront of the house and around the creek. Making progress. Soon we will be able to see most of the house from the street.

We worked on clearing the brush while the girls were napping. Aspen was a great help hauling trees and branches, using the clippers and learning to man the sawzall.

Bath time.

All the kids LOVE bath time at the beach.

Besides sharing a bedroom, Aspen and Journey love watching movies in the easy chair together. Pretty special since we don't watch movies at home very often.