Ventura Pier

We spent a week at the beach and one evening went down to the Ventura Pier. This is Caleb and Nate looking handsome in their pirate outfits.

Here is Abby and Landon not wanting to miss out on the pirate picture opportunity.

Last but not least, Savannah and Abby...aren't they cute?

Skirball Center

Caleb loading hte animals on the ARC. This little girl and Caleb worked as a team.

This is Teagan making the wind blow

Here is Caleb, Teagan and Savannah playing inside the ARC

Here is the outside of the ARC...very cute and fun for the kids

Skirball Center

This pictures are from the Skirball Cultural Center. They have a museum on Jewish history and then a hands on Noah's Arc. Exhibit. The kids could make it rain, lightning, wind and even load the animals on the arc. The had a blast climbing through the inside of the arc, which was a huge tunnel play area. Above is a picture of Landon making the flood waters raise up.

Papa and Landon (16 mos.)

Savannah (3 1/2 yrs.)

Landon running around and making friends

Los Angeles Temple

We went by The Los Angeles Temple and got some nice pictures. Located close to Beverly Hills and much bigger then it looks in pictures.

La Brea Tar Pits and the Park

Savannah and Abby at the park listening to music

Nico and Landon hanging out at the park listening to the music

We went to La Brea Tar Pits. The kids liked the museum and looking at all of the cool animals.

Papa and Grammy with Teagan, Caleb and Savannah at the Tar Pitts

Downtown Disney

My greatest friends from college (Kathryn and Ed)
met us at Downtown Disney with their two sweet kids. They
are the same ages as Teagan and Savannah and all the kids
had a great time together dancing to music and playing with
the water. We loved seeing them and appreciate them making
the drive to LA to visit with us. We hold out hope of them
moving back to Arizona.

Savannah playing in the sand.










Grammy and Papa got Abby an American Girl baby doll for her birthday. They also got Savannah one. They loved them and were very happy.


The kids loved making sand castles. Nate, Jacob, Abby, Caleb and Teagan
We had a jacuzzi at the beach house. We loved to go in after the day at the beach. This is Grammy, Savannah, me, Landon and Teagan.

Mandalay Beach

Teagan and Papa. Teagan enjoyed getting buried in the sand.

Caleb enjoyed getting buried in the sand

Teagan loved digging for sand crabs


















Savannah loved playing with the sand toys and in the waves

Mandalay Beach

For the past few years we have had the opportunity to go to California for a few weeks during the summer. This summer my parents rented a beach house on Mandalay Beach (near Oxnard, Ca). We love this area and have been here many times renting beach houses since I was in Jr. High. This was the first time in a while that we had all the families and cousins up at the beach together.



This is my Dad and Landon (16 mos. 0ld). He loved the waves and would run at them with his head down. Good thing he was well taken care of, because he easily would have been knocked down and taken out.
This is Teagan (6), Abby (7) and Nate (11). Nathan is teaching Teagan something on the boogie board.
Here is Landon playing in the sand and having a good time.










Here are all the cousins together...Landon(16 mos.), Savannah (3), Abby (7), Nico (13), Nate (11), Caleb (8), Jacob (9) and Teagan (6). Enjoy the sand and the surf.