The Beach!

Living away from family brings much more meaning to the words "cousin time"!  And being able to spend cousin time at the beach is a double bonus.  The girls couldn't wait to see their cousins and from what we hear Kip couldn't wait to get together with "the real Kate"!  We spent several days in a row soaking in the sun while the kids played in the sand and water.  Neeley just loved boogie boarding and spent most of the day there.  She even convinced me to go in and stay until my hands and feet were numb.  Kayla was a bit more cautious and spent most of her time in the shallow waves and digging in the sand.  Lilah bathed in the sand the entire day and Kate, she was happy with Kip.  As for the adults we enjoyed catching up and getting a rest.

That pretty much sums up the trip.  Days at the beach, nights at good eats and a trip to the 99 cent store for cookies!

A trip to California wouldn't be complete without going to San Diego.  Jeremy has to get his deep dish pizza fix.  We even happened upon some Halloween festivities!

Fishing/Turtling

We are lucky enough to have two fishing ponds right in our neighborhood.  So on Saturday we took the girls out for a day at the "lake".  All I have to say is Jeremy gets a medal for patience with taking five girls fishing, none of whom will touch worms or fish!  All was going well until our last cast.  Kate's first time fishing and her first catch, she was so excited to have one on the line.  That is of course until we found out it was a turtle!  She just starred at it in disbelief, as did the rest of us.  At lease we can say we got a close up look at a turtle!