Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Hot Tubbin'

At the beach house there are two hot tubs. One upstairs, which is reserved for the grown ups, and one downstairs, which is for the kids. These little rascals spent nearly every waking moment in that downstairs hot tub. If they weren't on the beach, they were in the hot tub!
Austin, Ryan and Addie!
Austin, AJ and Ryan!
Ashley, Tyler and Kylie joined the boys for a while in the hot tub! Okay, so I guess it's not only for kids!
This little boy would just sit in the "cuzzi" as he would call it all by himself. He would just talk to himself and hang out forever!
We LOVE the hot tub!

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Beach House 2011!!!

The first full week of August we spent our time together...
...at this amazingly beautiful place!!!
Saylor's Sandcastle in gorgeous Ventura, CA! I've grown up going here about every 3 years with the Ogden side of my family. I didn't realize how being here would remind me so much of my Great-Grandpa and Great-Grandma Ogden! We loved it!!!
We spent the entire week with all of these crazy people!!!
My family (minus Trevor on his mission)!
The grandkids who were able to make it! Everyone accept Trevor and Lauren! We missed them a ton!
EVERYONE!!!
Bunch of crazies!!!We did sooooo many fun things while we were at the beach house!!! Check back to see the fun we had!

Summer Concert Fun!!!

The first Thursday in August, Justin and I went to the Toby Keith concert! It was my second of three concerts that I got tickets to for my birthday. We had a great time together, despite all of the obnoxiously intoxicated people surrounding us!
Eric Church was one of the openers! He was great!
We really enjoyed Toby Keith! We love how patriotic he is and it was really shown a lot at the concert!
Up next... RASCAL FLATTS!!!

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Camping at Sunset Beach!!!

In mid July we went camping at Sunset Beach in Watsonville with Nana and Papa Schmidt, Uncle Steve, Aunt Ashley, Tyler, Uncle Allen, Aunt Megan, and Aunt Natalie! We missed Uncle Trevor who was on his mission (and still is) and Aubrey who was at Lake Powell (brat)!We decided that we are going to do a camping trip every summer together, so this was our first anual trip! On the first day after everyone was settled, we drove to Capitola and walked around the little town.It's so cute! We checked out the beach there, then went to the best deli/bakery in the world!That night while we made dinner, Justin and the boys found some cool trees to climb near our camp spot. They had a lot of fun being little monkeys!Daddy and Ryan got up pretty easily, but Austin was having a hard time!So Daddy reached down for him, and Mommy lifted him up! He was a lot happier then!The next few days we just enjoyed the beach! It was beautiful!!!
Austin loves his Uncle Allen! He wanted him to play with him the whole weekend!LOVE the two little beach bums!!!The beach was littered with Sanddollars! They were everywhere! Megan taught Ryan who taught mommy what live sanddollars look like when they are alive compared to when they were dead. We walked the beach and gathered quite a collection of them!On one of our many walks down the beach we noticed that there were a ton of seagulls in one area. We decided that they were having a meeting and Ryan decided that "we should interrupt their meeting!" It was too funny to watch the boys chasing after them. Especially since Austin was only in his underwear thanks to a huge wave that soaked his shorts.We spent all of Saturday at the beach, and this time the boogie boards came out!Ryan headed out for his first experience on the boogie board!He LOVED it! He would stand up once he was beached and head back out yelling "Yeah Baby! WoooHooo! Let's do that again!" Ryan's coined terms when he's having a great time!Austin decided he was certainly missing out on some fun, so he found himself a boogie board and headed out to hit the waves!Since Daddy was helping Ryan, who did Austin turn to?! Uncle Allen of course!He wasn't too sure about it and only went out the one time! Once the boys were done, the guys headed out to watch the dolphins swim right by them while they waited for the best waves!We spent the rest of the afternoon playing in the sand......playing games......and flying kites!!!
We found this big hole that someone dug, so Uncle Steve got his shovel and started digging deeper with the boys. They thought this was so cool!
We had an amazing time camping with our family and can't wait for the tradition to continue next year!!! Love you all!!!