Fun at the Beach!

Being in Arizona, we're now only about six (maybe seven) hours away from Jesse's grandfather who lives in California. We have been meaning to take a weekend trip for quite some time to visit. After Jesse's trip to Paris, we ended up with a free night at Best Western so we decided to take advantage of that and made a weekend trip of it, visit with family and take the kids for their first trip to the ocean.

The first picture above is all of us looking stiff, the second picture when grandpa was checking to make sure we smiled, we all look better, but you can't see his handsome face. It was a good visit to see Great-Grandpa, Uncle Mark and Aunt Chris (hope I spelled it everything right!). We really enjoyed seeing them and having the kids briefly meet the family. We've missed living close enough to family to be able to do these sort of trips.

Before we visited with family we had fun at the beach!

When we first got to the beach, it was warm but overcast - perfect recipe for a sunburn, by the way - and there was a pod of dolphins just a few waves away (yippee!). The beach we chose to visit was right at the end of LAX, so we were able to have fun seeing airplanes take off. We went with some friends (who are internet shy) and had a lot of fun catching up and visiting with them and their two adorable children.

I love being able to build these memories with our children!