We have been lucky enough to already have spent two lovely weeks at the beach this summer. Both weeks were a little cold (high 60s, low 70s) but when you live somewhere that is between 105 and 115 in the summer, cold can be very good.
We first spent a week in San Diego with Eric's family. We were in a beach house right on the beach. It was fun being on the boardwalk and we took the kids over to the rides a few times to take a brake from the overcast beach. The girls had so much fun spending time with cousins and it was a very nice vacation all around. I didn't take any pictures except the one with Livy and London in the lovely Mexican hats. That is from one evening when Eric and I took the girls over to Old Town San Diego. It was a fun little area with great shops and really good food. I wish I had more pictures from the trip. I will have to steal some from other family members :).
We packed up on a Saturday and drove from San Diego up to Newport where we spent the next week with Elisabeth & Jesse Theurer and their cute kids William and Ellie. It was a cool week too but we had a really good time and we found plenty of other things to do. We stayed at the Marriott Villas which were gorgeous. We went shopping at Fashion Island, walked around Balboa, went to the Tide Pools, went to the beach and the piers and most importantly ate lots and lots of really good food :). I am now addicted to Chronic Tacos. Luckily (or maybe not so lucky) we have a Chronic in Tempe so I am able to continue on with what Jesse and Elisabeth started me on in Newport. I could talk about food for a while but I will move on. . . . We went over to Balboa twice and one time we made a stop at T's Toe Rings. Liz Higham introduced me to this little place a couple years ago and we had to stop by again and get new toe rings for all the girls for the summer. Livy and I got one and this year London was big enough to get one too! We couldn't find one small enough for Savvy so she will have to wait another year or two to get one. Livy, London and Savvy got along so well with Ellie and William. It was so fabulous because they did a really good job of playing together and entertaining themselves. We had so much fun being with the Theurers and we have to do it again but next time with a little more sun :).
Yesterday was Olivia's 9th birthday!!! I of course forgot to take pictures (what kind of mom am I?) but luckily Jamie was there :). So, I will have to get them from her and then post the pictures. Livy went shopping with Lala for new clothes and then we had the Nielsen's, the Schramm's and the Hyde's over for pizza and cake. We are doing Livy's friend birthday party on Saturday and hopefully I will remember to take pictures this time. Then on Monday it is off to Beach Week for two more fabulous weeks at the beach. Yeah!!!
