Beach Bums

Steve, Jake and I had such a FUN day yesterday!! We had a low-key morning, went out to lunch, and then went to the BEACH, and then went to one of Steve's old mission buddies' wedding reception in Irvine. We were going to go to Huntington Beach, you know the beach that's on all the TV screens in Hollister?? Yeah, that one :) BUT, more than half an hour had passed of us driving through the nonstop stop-and-go traffic trying to find a parking spot on a super busy Saturday afternoon, and we still weren't finding anything, so we ended up driving just south of Huntington Beach to Newport Beach, which was still nice, but not as crowded. Well, we had a BLAST!!! I wish every day could be like yesterday, it was so great to spend the whole day together and relax on the beach and take naps to the sound of the ocean. We didn't want to leave! And, needless to say, I think Jake had the most fun out of all of us. It was hilarious watching him discover sand for the first time, and dipping his little feet in the ocean for the first time. He was a little hesitant about the sand at first, he wasn't quite sure what to make of it, but after about 15 minutes of playing around with it, he was trying to eat it by the fist-full!! By the end of the day, he had sand stuck in every nook and cranny (which we were expecting), and his diaper resembled a sand box. But it was SOO fun. I don't even care that I'll probably be cleaning sand out of his ears and nose for the next week! Steve and I talked about how it's going to be fun to live vicariously through our kids for the next who knows how many years, because even going to the beach is so much better and so much more entertaining when you can watch your child discover new things and when you can point out things that you haven't given a second thought about since you were a kid. I can't imagine how fun Disneyland will be in a couple years! Anyway, it was just a good day, and I'm so blessed and grateful to have been able to spend it with my two boys :)

The first fist-full of sand, with a look of, "What am I supposed to do with this?"

Getting more warmed up to it...

I love him!!
This was his face for most of the time we were there, he just ate it up.

He LOVES apples, and apple juice

Mommy kisses, hehe

The best Dad in the world!!!

HAHA, we buried Jake in the sand, he didn't like it for too long :)

So this was his face near the end of the day, it just got caked with more and more sand and it was so hard to keep it off! So we just kinda gave up toward the end, ha.

Mommy and Jake in the ocean, well our feet were, anyway!

I thought this was a cute picture of him just chillin on the beach, it seemed like he was just in his element the whole time we were there.

This was at Steve's friend's reception, I was stealing a dance with Jakers!

Steve with the groom: James Hartley. He was a cool guy!

Steve with another mission buddy, Paul Foltz, that he didn't know was going to be there! It was pretty funny when they ran into each other, they were like, "DUUUDE, no WAY!!!" Haha, you can imagine Steve saying that, can't you?? :)

Here are some videos of our fun in the sun!! (Sorry for the loud wind!) In the first one, Jake kept lifting up his feet and digging them in the sand, it was really cute. In the second one, Steve was piling sand in front of him and Jake kept doing face plants into the piles, and trying to eat it, he's nutso :)