Summer at the Beach

While in CA we hit up the beach a couple of times. We went to a beach near my sister’s home that was called Salt Creek Beach (or something like that….it was so nice to get in the car and be there within 20 min.). We always have debates about whether we would like to move back to CA or not. There are so many pros and cons to the decision and we’re finding ourselves torn over the whole thing. Regardless of where we end up, we’d really love to be close to some family. Here in AZ I have my sister Natalie near by and it’s really fun. I love that Ryan and Dani have cousins to play with virtually anytime.

Ryan and Ashee played non-stop the ENTIRE time we were in CA visiting my side. They are 6 mo. apart and love each other. They even wore matching swimsuits this day. My heart gets so happy when I see my children happy and having fun.

Dani doing her thing…curious about everything!

Pyper practicing on the boogie board.

Our cute little family!

Summer Vacation 2013

Yep….that’s right folks, your eyes are not deceiving you….I updated my blog. It’s been a long time and like most, once I get behind with the blog I feel overwhelmed with all the activities and pictures that it’s hard to get back into it. I’m going to try to slowly update my blog every few days till I get caught up. Billy’s sister Janna is also a big motivation…she recently left on her mission to Orlando Florida and this is a way for her to stay updated on our little family and see pictures of the cuties (I know she can’t browse the internet…I’m emailing her my blog entries).

We went to CA for summer vacation….when do we not go there? We both of our families there I feel like our vacations are always to visit them…and it’s great and we have loads of fun. I went to CA with the girls early to hang with my sister Mindy. We spent 2 weeks there before Billy joined us.

We took the girls to this cute bakery called Wonderland Bakery. It was definitely girly and they had fun eating cupcakes.

Ryan being the sweet big sister and giving Dani a ride on the bike because Dani was too little to go by herself.

One of the days we were there we took the kids to the park. Within the first 10 min. I see Ryan crying and her mouth covered in blood. “I tried to hold on real tight and be careful” were her exact words. The poor girl was playing on the playground stuff and her flip flop got caught on a slat will running. She fell face first and this was the end result. We had to use baking soda to clean the infection. She was great and got rewarded with a new dog shirt from Grandpa Pyper and Grandma Donna.

Poor thing!

More to come about our fun adventures this summer…