06.16.11 Thursday at the beach

Warning...lots of pictures :) Thursday was a fun day of vacation as well. Abuela got lots of snuggles from her grandkids.
Isaac and Eli went for a bike ride. (Loving the very pink helmet Isaac is wearing-he borrowed Katie's)

Edgar took Eli for a bike ride every morning, and ended up spending all morning with him. They would ride to the park and play, then Edgar would bring him back and swim with him in the pool. What was I doing? Sitting on the couch chatting with the girls :) Love vacation!

Edgar got a good workout hauling the kids!

Eliott after his ride. Doesn't his hair look lovely?

Thursday evening we went back to the beach to attempt to see the sunset one last time.

Eli enjoying the sand.

The hermit crabs were VERY cool. I had taken Leah in the water to just sit and play, and I suddenly noticed that all of the shells were walking around. These shells have crabs inside. Leilani found a HUGE one. It was amazing.

Abuela showing Katie the 'walking shells'.

Daddy time
Isaac is loving the sand

LOVE this picture

Katie had a blast playing in the sand as well.

Snack time!

The sun on its way down.

Erik building another castle.

Me and my love :)

The sky behind us...the colors the sunset was 'throwing off' were gorgeous.

And I got my sunset picture :) Well...about 100 of them ;)

6.15.11 Wednesday

We decided that Wednesday was going to be a 'chill out' day. We thought we'd stay home and just enjoy each other's company :)Leah hung out for a while in the laundry basket...ya know...cuz it's cute.
Abuela got lots of time with her grand kids.

The pool was the place to be that day.

Katie got braver and braver as the week went by.

Getting kisses from daddy :)

...and hugs.

A little pool volleyball...baseball...whatever.

Abuela shooting water at people.

There was also some hanging out on the balcony. Katie is so cute when she reads books. Now, she CAN read some books, but the books that are beyond her reading level she points her fingers along the words, and makes her own story up. It's pretty cute. She has such a great imagination.

Eli telling daddy what letters to draw...he loves this game...a lot. If you've been around him for more than a few hours, I'm sure you've been asked to draw letters, or pictures. He loves to watch people write. I can't wait for him to learn how to write on his own. I'm sure someday I'll look back and think with fondness on this game. Right now I'm kinda tired of it :)

A wonderfully relaxing day! Our plan worked ;)

'Sunset' at the Beach

On Tuesday night we decided to make good use of our 1-day parking pass and head back to the beach to watch the sunset. The kids were thrilled to go back. Well...I'm not sure Leah cares where she's at-as long as mommy's close :)
Leilani came with Isaac-Eric had to teach a Bible Study. Edgar's parents came along too.

Isaac is DEFINITELY a beach boy. He LOVES it!

I have no idea how Eli constantly got sand all over his face...but it seemed like as soon as we wiped it off it was back.

Leah havin' a good time...

...and Eli too :)

Oh yeah...the sunset...this is as close as I got to the actual sunset before it snuck behind the clouds. I thought it was quite pretty even though it wasn't quite on the horizon :)

In lieu of getting a shot of the actual sun setting, I decided to capture a few of God's other beautiful creations :)

Ya know...some pictures of our little girl (Eli is kinda over being photographed...but he's a pretty beautiful creation too :) )

Fortunately, we DID get a sunset shot a few days later...

Tuesday Morning at the beach

One very nice thing about our 'vacation home' is that it is very close to the beach, so Tuesday morning we headed out to enjoy some fun in the sun. We tried to get there early-we didn't plan to stay for too long...hoping to be home by lunch so that we wouldn't get too hot. The set-up of the 'site' is always entertaining to watch. It was pretty windy when we got there, so that made things loads 'o fun...
The kids loved the sand. They were covered! They had so much fun!

I love LOVE watching Eli play with his daddy! Edgar & Eli had so much fun playing at the beach.

Lovin' the giant sand box!

Going for a walk with daddy & Abuelo.

Isaac had a blast. He loved playing with all of the sand toys.

So cute!

I swear Leah was posing for this picture.

Happy momma!

A little football on the beach. (I played for a little while...I can catch a football, but I am terrible at throwing, so I didn't play for long. I blame it on an old high school injury...that makes me sound old)

A happy family!

Katie and Abuela picking up shells on the beach.

She's collected quite a few.

Eric built this beautiful sand castle :)

And Isaac promptly destroyed it :)

It was a wonderful morning at the beach. At one point Leah fell asleep while I was holding her-she hasn't done that for a while. Laying on the beach with my baby was so nice...plus she slept through the 'pack up' time...so I got out of that :) I know how to plan a nap... ;)