Friday, Beach Day!

Ah, making faces as we stopped for ice on the way to the beach.  Sometimes I wonder if they know that if I am taking a picture you better be prepared to let anyone see it, unless you look bad/weird or scary on accident.

Matt using my unicorn lollipop to be a unicorn.  This kid cracks me up!  I wonder sometimes how everyone else got the funny genes and I am always their audience?!  Mom, ready and waiting for the beach.  She totally burnt her knees while dad was having a nap.

The day was a little grey for the first couple hours, then it got sunny and the wind picked up and it was chilly any where else but laying close to the sand! I definately wore a sweater for the last couple hours there.  It was fun to be there!

These birds suddenly came down to the beach in one big cloud.  It was super reepy and my pictures don't do it justice at all.  A big group of them landed on these towels near us and as the peoples fries.

Donald and Sheila came to visit and I got to meet Elizabeth for the first time.  She is a beautiful and sweet girl.  I wish I could have had more time with the kids.  I love having little cousins and I wish I lived closer to spend more time with them.  They absolutely love my dad, all kids do within minutes of being with him.  I think he's where I get my talents working with kids.  In this picture the kids were laughing a playing with dad.  Liz wanted so badly to climb up but she was afraid so she just put her foot on his leg and laughed when the others laughed.  It was super cute. 

 We came back from the beach and swam for the rest of the day until evening. 

can I just say, I love swimming with my family?!  They are so funny and dad always tries to drown everyone, not literally but he definately has made most of us choke of water at one point or another.

Donald and Sheila and their littlest cutie-pye.

 We went out for froyo firday night.  I think this is my favorite dessert in the whole world.  Esp. when the place has mochi to put in it!!

Dad in his classic Dad pose.  I saw gpa pits sit back like this many times in my life.  Dad sits like this all the time.

 Matt is yelling at me about having my camera out at all times.  But this was the last time that I was going to see them all for who knows how long and I wanted to document as much as I could.  I love them. 

Meg making a cheesy face while polishing off her yogurt.

Some pretty flowers that one of Dads former students, Randel brought for Mom.

My totally awesome and cool Wonder Woman cape that mom won for me with her super power arcade skills.

The fourth and Magic Mountain!

These are pictures from the fourth of July after I arrived we went for a swim and played some games with some family friends! The Parry's! super funtastic times!  I forgot my camera for the rest of the 4th of July stuff so...check my mom's fb for anything she got...sorry!

 Here we have shots before entering Magic Mountain.  One of the group minus Dad and I (since I am behind the camera).  One of Mom and I.  One of Matt and I.  One of Meg and I that I think turned out totally cUTE!  Then a different shot of the group.  They got season passes to Six Flags and were looking through the coupons offered and I was bored waiting so I took a lot of pictures, I won't bore you with them since they mostly looked the same at that point and I am fairly certain there are enough pictures in this post already. 

WE ARE SO PREcIOUS!!!

Sibling love!!! Matt, never a normal face...never.

 The worlds largest gummy bear, I mean yummy bear!!  can you imagine how disgusted you would be with the flavor and well pretty much everything else about this bear by the time you had eaten the whole thing! Yikes! candy in superfluous amounts! 

 This shot was me behind the group yet again.  Somehow I managed to twist my ankle and sprain it.  Not a super bad sprain but just enough to where I limped and tended to lag behind like some creeper stalking this giant of a guy and those other shorter people.  Gotta love how freakishly tall everyone is though.  I may be the oldest child but now even other families children have passed me in height.  Yet somehow I wake up everyday and still think that being 5'8 is normal and that they are the freaks!  (um, I love you.  also Mom you are not included, obviously, since you are normal like me!)

Most delicious carmel apple to ever touch my tongue!!!!  I wish they traveled well, I totally almost stole one of the few my dad ordered and brought home from the park.  It was soooo tempting, but I was a good girl and resisted.  Stealing is bad. 

My little Batman with a cape that Mom won for him.  He is such a good sport about posing for pictures for me.  I love that kid.  Mom also won me a cape that I really wanted. Who was I do you ask?  Well Wonder Woman!  Who else??  I don't have a picture of the cape but there is one of me wearing the adorable new accessory further down the post.  

This is yet another classic Brandon face, always mugging for the camera...Love it!

Meg danced her way down this aisle and I couldn't resist a shot. Isn't she lovely...

Waiting in line, I think Matt looks afraid! As he should, as he should...

AgH! These faces are so gross! Meg gets Super creeped out about them and its soooo funny to watch the boys torment her.  Also they used these faces on line skippers passing us.

More waiting in a line....

Yet more waiting...this was a long one folks...we waited to be in the front...soooo totally worth it!! Man it was hot in there though.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!! I forgot about this one! Matts hair after every coaster minus the green lantern looked like this!  I got a good chuckle out of it every time!!

 Waiting for our dinner break outside the park...8 dollars for a slice of not that great pizza??? I think NOT! We had In n out instead! yummo!

Waiting in line for what was one of the best rides...Tatsu...it was humid and stinky under that canopy!! Longest hour EVER!!  But worth it! 


Before Dad got some guys busted by giving 'really'? eyes and faces at the helper guy.  the guys cut anyway but that time everyone let them through. 

I wanted to fit the Green lantern and Matt in and then Brandon was punching the air and it looks like he is punching the Green Lantern!!  Funny stuff! 

 Dad being,...well Dad. I love him for it...don't mind how I look, it was a long day...but you see I do have my cap by this point...pure awesomeness!!!  Side bar: Dad was too tall for the ride, he was lucky not to ride it.  WORST ROLLAR cOASTER EVER!  I wouldn't even call it a coaster...more like a whiplasher.  ah I crack myself up.   

End of the day. Meg has her rhino Mom won for her and we are taking the last pictures of the night.

What a fantastically great day!  I had so much fun and I am grateful I got to see my family at all this summer!  There are more pictures but I am tired and I keep spelling things wrong and its frustrating me.  I will make another post tomorrow!

Life Happening

A friend reminded me that I have no current pictures up on here so here they are. The first 2 are just shots with my webcam. 

 These are of me and Jamie's 2 youngest, Reagan and Logan.  They love to do my hair up all crazy. 

These one's in the blue dress are my easter sunday shots.  Remember mom when we used to take those every year in our new easter dresses, that when we were little were handmade sometimes? 

I went on a trip to visit Gramms and Gramps in Oregon.  Gramps took a turn for the worse and I needed to see him.  It was hard to be with him when most of the time for the first few days he had no clue who I was.  All in all I am glad I went.  I got to spend a few hours at the beach with Aunt Laura and it was so fun!  The day was absolutely gorgeous and the tide was so far out I found 12 whole sand dollars and a lot of great rocks and seashells in great condition.  Of course aunt Laura, always game for what makes me smile, got soaking wet wading up to her bum in the ocean, me too!  But it was worth every second of wetness for the laughter and joy.  My kindle died a few days in and we had to make an emergency trip to the bookstore down in oldtown.  I never did make it to get ice cream at jb's though.  my bad.  I also did not take any pictures of gramps or gramms.  Thinking about it now I am wondering if I just didn't want to see gramps that way let alone take pictures of it.  Anywho, above are some shots from the beach.