The weekend

We had a nice weekend. On Friday night we went to the hotel where my brother and his family are staying and went swimming. It's fun watching the cousins get to play together. They are on a Disney vacation and having a great time! Then on Saturday the five of us went to the beach and played and had lunch. We got to see some amazing skim boarders! It was a nice relaxing day. Yestersday was church. The primary chorister (kids' chorister) had asked someone to sub for her while she was on vacation, but the sub wasn't there so they asked me to do it. It went pretty well for last minute. I'm doing it again next week and that will be better because I've got time to prepare! After church, Dan and Timani (my brother and sis-in-law) and the kids came over. We had lunch and visited and had dinner and visited some more. It was nice catching up. They were going to try to get to Disneyland at 7 am and get to the Nemo Submarine Voyage. I hope they got up and over there!!!

Beach Day

Yikes! It's been a month since I've posted. Busy summer! We've been going to the beach, reading, walking, running, playing, cleaning, biking, swimming. It's so nice to have a pool. I was telling the kids that we've been to the pool more this year than all of our trips to the pool in the last 10 years combined! When Daren and his family were here they bought four boogie boards and left them for us to use (thanks Daren!). So when we go to Beach Day with our ward (every Tuesday) we take them and Dallin and Lauren have been learning to use them. When surfing or boogie boarding, always use a rash guard. We learned that after the first day. Lauren was OK, but Dallin had a rash all over his chest. Sara loves to play in the waves and dig and build in the sand. On our last trip to the beach a bunch of the kids found sand crabs and put them in a gigantic bucket with sand and water. All of the moms line their umbrellas up all in a row and we sit and talk and watch the kids play. Once in a while a mom will go out in the water. I'll get wet up to my knees!