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. :-)

Playing...

After the balloons were all filled Carolyn was so sweet and she played a water balloon fight with Jade and Gemma, mostly Gemma just threw them on the ground.

So then they broke out the wading pool...

water balloons

We had a fun day at Grandma Rory's a few weeks ago. Carolyn took Jade to the store with her and they came home with a bag of waterballoons so I filled them all up.