Oh, the beach.

We made it to the beach with the entire family

the last day in California.

We were lucky it was such a nice day to go,

but as the sun was going down you definitely were chilled by the water on your feet.

I put all the pictures black and white,

because why the heck not?

And my deepest apologies to Madre and Kader for not getting 

them in any pictures on the beach.

I can be a real airhead sometimes.

Oh and Lydia was a crazy person the first hour

on the beach, destroying everything in her path,

and eating lots of sand.

This stage she is in is hilarious.

Day one of Disneyland.

Disneyland was adorable and magical.

It meant so much more going to Disneyland and

being able to take Lydia.

I was dying with excitement when walking into the park!

I am sure Greg was too.

(That was sarcastic in case you couldn't tell)

It was a perfect warm fall day the first day at 

Disneyland and there wasn't too many crowds.

Lydia going on her first ride which was Pirates of the Carribean.

She would dance when the pirates would sing,

"yo ho, yo ho, and pirates life for me!"

Two very cute boys.

 The whole family had a lot of fun going on all sorts of rides.

 It's really fun being married to Greg.

 Definitely not a lot of dull moments for me.

And I love that about him!

Kambryn and Lydia meeting their first Disney princess, Ariel.

Lydia was kind enough to smile for us in front of some cute pumpkins.

 These next ones were taken almost two hours later.

Lydia was napping and I told Greg I was so 

tempted to wake her up so we could take a cute 

family picture in her Halloween colors (I know I am such a girl).

And the next thing we know after we took our picture alone 

she woke up!

 She was a little confused and disoriented,

but I still love the pictures that we got.

We hung out on main street that night.

Lydia was seriously a crazy person.

The minute we let her walk around she was running everywhere.

Knocking candy off of shelves and

we caught her just in time when she was inches

away from grabbing a figurine in the porcelain shop.

Oh goodness, it was funny.

Even more pictures to come of course!

And check out the photo blog

to see how the fall mini sessions turned out.

A quick trip.

Last weekend we went to St. George with our

good friends the Smith's.

We loaded up the boat and our baby and we were on our way!

We boated all day long for two days in a row then headed back home.

Being on a boat, on a lake, in your swimsuit, being able to eat all day,

getting tan, in hot weather is heaven.

Did that last sentence even make sense?

Lydia loved the sandy beach and even did a little skinny dipping.

What a scandolous girl!

She doesn't get it from me that's for sure...

Greg looked like a manly man on that wakeboard.

And me barely surviving on the wakeboard.

I crashed once and it felt like I had an enema.

It hurt something fierce people!

Too bad I didn't get any pictures of the Smith's on their wakeboard.

They looked much better than us.

Here a terribly shaded photo of us in front of the boat

taken by an eldery Idaho man on his way down to Arizona for the winter.

He was so excited to talk to us.

It was cute.

We ended up in Mesquite one night.

Don't ask how we got there, just know we ate at a buffet.

Before we left we just had to ride this tandem bike.

And I took this really funny picture of Ginger and Greg.

Curtiss finally won Lydia's heart over the weekend too.

It only took about 50 swedish fish to like him.

Not bad, right Uncle Curty?  Ha.