Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Hiking Snow Canyon

WOW! What a beautiful place. The day after school got out I loaded up the car and headed to hike with the kiddos. We drove up to Snow Canyon to scout out a hike for my young women for girl's camp. The kids did awesome. Even Marli. She made it the first whole mile without complaint. Then Halle and I took turns packing her. She walked a bit later as long as we were hunting chinchillas and looking for their houses. After our hike we played in the sand a while. It makes me feel badly that we don't spend much time in the beautiful places that are all around us here. We all had a great time together kicking off our summer!!
I am so glad summer is here. I love having my kids home. We have so much planned. They are already busy with swim team and Halle with high school sports morning. I don't like that it passes so fast. I really want to try and soak up every minute I can.

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Strawberry Fields Forever!

The kids had the greatest time at Underwood Farms, a place where you can pick your own fruit and veggies, mostly strawberries. 80% of the US strawberry crops come from this part of California. They were great and so were the oranges. We all had our fill of big red berries before we were done!

OXNARD CALIFORNIA--Vacation Time!

Our Spring Break Trip this year was to Oxnard California. It is about an hour north of LA, which meant in the spring time, it is not too warm yet. The beach was still great though. Our timeshare was right close to the beach. We would walk there everyday. There was also a park right on the beach which Marli loved. Below you see the brave ones...... They are crazy! They waves were huge and it was a little breezy, but it didn't stop them from boogie boarding. They had a great time and laughed a lot!
Below you see me and Marli on our whale watching trip. We took a boat out to the Channel Islands. It was really neat, but unfortunately it lulled her to sleep before she got to see the whales. She really felt ripped off.


Here you see Halle smiling, which went away for a while when the sea sickness got her. We will leave out the details.....but it was pretty funny!

WHALES! Finally!!!!!!
One came right up to the edge of our boat. The kids loved it.
It was pretty amazing to see them up close like that!

Marli playing on the beach park.

Kari and Booker watching the beautiful sunset.



The big moon opposite the setting sun....this, with the sound of the waves...priceless!!!!