Sea world, bat rays

Jade and Cisco loved the Bat rays, they were so fun to touch and pet, we also got to feed them.









Here is one breaking the surface, they really liked to be touched.













We had a lot of fun with the bat rays, we were there for about an hour, Jade was totally soaked after, she loved it.


James is up to his shoulder, touching the Bat Rays and also a Sturgeon was in there.

Sea Wolrd, coral reef

Waiting for the park to open...

Touching the sea stars, and sea urchins at the coral reef, there was also a sea cucumber in there

checking out the sea stars. It was so awesome we nearly had the place to ourselves, there is a lot to be said about going in the off season, we didn't have to wait in line for anything and there was no problem getting up close to all of the animals.

Beach....still....

Cisco loved the beach, this is the only picture I got of him alone because he took off to play and look for shells.






Jade found a sand dollar, they are my favorite sea shell.

The Beach....

James' loot from gold panning....

When we got to California, San Diego... We checked into our Hotel then we went to the beach, everyone was so excited...

Playing in the surf....

Gemma loved the beach, she was so good on our way down too.

On our Way....

We spent last week on a family vacation to California... On our way we stopped at a Dinosaur museum in St. George, where they have Dinosaur tracks.....

Then we stopped at the Calico ghost town in California, here we are panning for gold....

Its a lot of hard work, for not a lot of "gold", here they actually are panning for iron pyrite also known as fools gold....

2nd Grade

Jade started second grade yesterday! Her teacher is Miss. Osborne and Jade is very excited to be back in school. Sometimes I wish that we were on year around. Anyway isn't she cute!!!

Fun times

Gemma is playing "Bridge"

Carolyn and Jade practicing on the Ukuleles

It must be August this is Cisco's mosquito bite, it was huge!

So if I ever hear "pfft" .... "YAY!!" ...... "pfft"... "YAY!" ..... "pfft"...."YAY!" over and over again I will know to check sooner :-)
Gemma was having a good time playing in the diaper powder. All I could do was laugh with her. :-)