Beautiful Beach Day

Well, summer is just around the corner for us. Today it was well into the 90's where we live, so we piled the kiddos into the van, and headed to the beach for the day. We went to Del Mar Beach on Camp Pendelton and we met up with our friend Robin and her son Kyler. Her husband Chris is in Iraq for the 4th time. Enough already.....

Anyhow, Troy put on his wetsuit and went surfing for about 2 hours while the kids played without wetsuits in the 60 degree water. I don't know how they did it, my bones in my feet ached everytime I stepped in the shallow part to take pictures. Gabriel is very anxious to really start surfing like Daddy, so he practiced today on his boogie board.

I though this was a really natural picture of Vivian, who showd her girly side today when she decided she would rather work on her tan, than play with the boys.

But, then she showed us how she really felt about having a bunch of boys to play with. (just after this picture she and Kyler had a long and very fun mudfight. )

What beach day wouldn't be complete without at least one kid covered from head to toe in sand?

It was a beautiful day, the dolphins came out around 5 o'clock and started surfing the waves. They were beautiful to watch. They always put on a show at Del Mar Beach, but unfortunatley my camera is not fast enough to catch them when they jump . We finally left around 6 pm and took our tired gang home to warm baths, dinner and bed.