I love California

We had the opportunity to visit some friends in California. We flew out on Friday evening and staying until Sunday morning. We went to San Clemente on Saturday and grilled and ate lunch and then we spent the day playing at the beach. Dave and I were able to do some boogey boarding, which was awesome. I did a little bit of streaking out there everytime I got hit by big waves, but it was all good!

Me and the kids overlooking the San Clemente beach. It was such a beautiful day!

While we were getting ready to eat a fire truck drove by and gave the kids fireman hats and stickers. They were really nice, and the kids loved it!

Ethan didn't like the ocean very much, he thought it was too scary. He spent most of his time rolling in the sand!

Dave with James(an old mission companion) and his wife Katherine. Dave and James have stayed good friends after all of these years. James actually got Dave his first job here in Dallas at Ernst and Young and then when we moved here they moved away a month later.

Addyson has taken up photography! Addy always manages to get her hands on our digital camera and snap photos of her toys in different arangements. I have to go through our camera and delete them but I had to laugh when I saw this one of Dave's butt. Addy and I were hysterical, Dave didn't think it was very funny:)

Paige got her first tooth! Every one of our children has gotten their first tooth at exactly 4 months. She turned 4 months on August 29th and her tooth came through on Aug. 28th. A few days later her 2nd tooth came through. She loves to chew on everything, including her mommy.

Ethan started preschool last week. He is going to Kary's Korner just like Addyson did. He is very excited to be big and go, he wanted to go so bad last year. Every day he comes home and tells me how good he was. I can't believe my kids are getting so big.

Addyson started kindergarten! The first day was a little tough, she was really scared, but once Mrs. McCormack pulled her away from me she did fine. She loves school now, and is excited everyday that she gets to go.

Not leaving on a jet plane:(

We tried to squeeze in one more trip before school started. This is us in the DFW airport waiting to try and get on a plane to Portland, OR. We were in the airport for about 4 hours trying to get on a place, but it just wasn't meant to be. We didn't end up going to Portland, but our luggage did! Luckily we were able to get everything back the next day. It was a bummer we were very excited to see my brother and his family and my old friends:(