A Day at the Beach

For our Relief Society activity we all went to the beach! I have never attempted to take the kids to the beach without Matt...it just seemed like too much of a hassel to do alone. There is so much stuff to carry and sandy kids to clean off after. But I got up my guts to do it today and mission complete! And we had a great time too! There were tons of us there. Thanks to my friend Lorraine's son who helped me back to my car at the end of the day with his friend. I don't think I could have carried tired kids and all the stuff without them.

The highlight for Luke was when the kids met this teenager on the beach who was visiting from Texas. He taught the younger kids how to "skim board". It is where you toss the board across the shallow water and then run and jump on and glide across the sand. Luke thought he was pretty cool! And I was so proud of our teenagers because afterward we got talking to this teenage kid's parents and they commented how nice it was so see girls dressed modestly at the beach! Way to go girls!

Emma's highlight was playing with Bradly and Nate and boogie boarding with them.

Gavin was loving running around in the water and crawling like a dog through the water. He was great all day and then started to get whiny so I picked him up while I was talking to my friend and all of a sudden his head hit my shoulder and he was asleep! What a trooper!

Who is this nerdy little tourist? Or wait that's my son complete with life jacket and Emma's Hello Kitty visor! :) He looked pretty funny! :) But hey he was safe and the sun was not in his eyes :)

Emma saw me taking all the "all boy" pictures and so she rounded up some girls for her "all girls" shot :)




This is the random kid we met on the beach. I think he was trying to meet the teenage girls by helping the little girls and boys :)