San Diego 2008! We were excited to go to San Diego because we also got to see Geoff after him being gone for 3 weeks! A few days after arriving we went with my family to LaJolla to see seal beach, shell beach and the tide pools. The kids loved it and we were all worn out after!Here are the seals we got to see. It was really neat to see them all in their natural enviornment.
This is at shell beach were there are tons of shells to look at and take home. The adults relaxed while the kids were in a frenzy looking for neat shells.
Here Amber holding her loot of shells.
The girls also loved playing in the waves. The girls and boys are wearing matching shirts that aunt chrissy bought them, so cute.
Geoff had as much if not more fun in the tide pools than the kids. We saw lots of crabs and annenimes.
Here is Cooper with my cousin's son Peyton. From the back they looked exactly alike. It was a good thing Cooper fell asleep with blue gum in his mouth the second night there becasue when he woke up it was stuck in the back of his hair. We could tell these two apart from the back, Cooper was the one with blue gum. I tried once to take it out but I couldn't and Cooper screamed so I just left it in. At a resturant someone next to him asked me "is that blue gum in is hair" and I said why yes it is!
Of course we need some shots with the kids playing in the ocean, all the kids loved it this year!
Calvin could not get enought of building sandcastles and bridges. He was very pround of this little bridge with rocks on it he built.
The big cousins helped make Amber and Emma into beautiful sand mermaids.
Lexi even made Calvin into a sand octopus.Another day we went to a huge pier in Oceanside. Aunt Chrissy was so nice and bought all the girls two matching shirts.
The highlight of the pier walk was watching a young fisherman bring up a sand shark. It was so cool and a little sad to see it die. The boys however thought it was just awesome!Amber was our bug and crab girl. Every day at the beach she tried to find the biggest sand crab, this one was the biggest of the day.
Cooper loved playing in the shallow waves.
This was Lexi's second year of great boogie boarding.
A cute pic of dad and Cooper playing in the waves.
Calvin even rode a few waves, you can tell his excitement by the huge smile on his face.
