On Saturday morning we headed to the beach, the kids had a blast boogie boarding, running away from the waves, splashing in the water, building castles and digging in the sand.
They especially loved taking turns burying each other in the sand. Everyone was anxious to take part in burying Aunt Brenn in the sand.
Then of course Avery wanted Kaulin to bury her in the sand.
Kaulin is Brenn's boyfriend. He is such a great guy, we really got to know him over the course of the trip. He plays football at Berkeley and is a business major there. He is awesome and the kids love him. Emma enjoyed lounging on the beach with her little sun hat kicking around on a beach towel. She of course loves conversation with Grandma as well.
I think she loved the sounds of the waves because she just smiled all day and was so happy.
However, the sound of the waves hitting the beach also became very soothing to her so she also spent a good portion of the day napping in her little umbrella hideaway that daddy made her.
I had to take a picture of her all bundled up in inside because she looked so sweet just sleeping all snuggled up. Look at the delicious chub on those cheeks.
Kaulin also is a wonderful surfer and agreed to teach Deke and I the basics. Brenn went first and of course had no problem getting up.
It was fun to stand on the beach and watch Kaulin teaching her. They are really cute together.
Then it was my turn. Kauling was very patient with me and my currently uncoordinated postbaby body. Surfing is way harder than I expected and takes quite a bit of upper body strength with I definitely do not have.
Kaulin would carry the board out for me and then tell me when to get on and start paddling then I would try to stand up. Here we are practicing on the beach. I love Brenn's pose for the camera :)
After eating it like a million times this is the closest I got to standing up on the board.
What is up with my hands? Yeah I don't know but I am sure it was entertaining for the people behind me to continue to watch me wipe out.
Deke seemed to get the hang of it pretty quickly. Obviously he also maintained better form.
Later in the afternoon we decided to try going out together and see how we did. We were doing great until a wave hit us and it knocked the board out of Deke's hands and shot up and hit me square in the head and I went down. Now thinking back it probably looked quite comical from the beach. However the amount of salt water I ingested and the rockin headache I had for the rest of the afternoon was not. That night we got a babysitter and took Brenn out for sushi for her 21st birthday!!! My sister's always seem older to me than they actually are so it already feels to me like Brenn has been 21 she is so mature and has so much ambition. Here we are that night all sunburned from beach fun. Kimbre, Brenn and Marley such pretty girls its kind of ridiculous.
It had been over a year since I had been able to go home to San Diego and visit my mom. She had to make trips out to AZ to see us while I was pregnant with Emma. We headed got there on Thurs. evening and went to see Eden's dance recital which was adorable. The next morning we went downtown to the newly renovated Mormon Battalion. If anyone if going to be in San Diego in the near future you have to go it is really neat. 
They have made it very interactive now as you go room to room learning the story of the Battalion. They also have some fun activities for the kids like old fashioned family photos, panning for gold, pumping water from a hand pump, washing clothes with an old wash board etc. etc. 
The kids had a blast and we ended up spending most of the day there enjoying the activities.
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