Our last day at the beach

The last 2 days all mom and I heard was "why are old ladies lazy Papa?" Apparently since mom and I didn't live down on the beach like Papa did that made us lazy. So the morning we left we said we'd go walk on the beach with them. I must say Matthew is so dang cute!!!And my baby girl Vanessa isn't so much a baby anymore, she is growing up to be a beautiful young lady....I'M SO OLD!!!!
She started running in the sand and fell on her bootie....maybe she isn't as grown up as I thought ;)
This is the beach my sister and I grew up playing, exploring and having fun on. Its so fun to see my kids enjoying it as much as we always have.
Matthew my poser!!!

So Matthew always likes to tease Nana bout having "saggy boobies" so since we were at the beach we decided to show him the real definition of a saggy boobie!!!

Oh yeah poser all the way

Mom, Dad, Matthew and Vanessa looking at the tide pools

Nana and Papa looking so wise standing on the beach just waiting to impart there wisdom to us

My cute lil family :)

Matthew fell and hurt his leg so he thought I should have to carry him!!!!

Vanessa being the graceful young lady she hopes to be

The kids climbed to the top of one of the highest rocks on the beach and looked over the edge for mom to take a picture

Explorer man Matthew on top of a rock

Vanessa just chillin on the sand

Matthew got a bit hungry while we were down at the beach and this old crap claw was all we could find for him to eat

This is a HOLY rock

Vanessa's last ditch effort to keep us from leaving the beach....pretending she died!!!!

We think Matthew is part cat.

Playing in the creek after the beach

We stopped at a camp ground next to this lil creek on our way home from the beach. Apparently the water was COLD!!
Matthew decided he was going to go under water. He was preparing himself
Yep the water is COLD!!! As Vanessa stands there laughing at him
And of course Vanessa couldn't let her lil brother out do her by going under water and not her so here so goes!!!

Her knees hit the bottom so her head never went under but she confirmed the water really was COLD!!!

Vanessa was showing Matthew how to swim

A girly girl with a gun!!!

Papa got home from work and him and Sess went outside to shoot paint balls. Wish I could put on a dress a holster belt and shoot a gun and look this dang cute
She dropped her balls!!!

Ummm....She could hit the target over and over again and yeah I think I hit it MAYBE 3 times at the most!!!

Ok so I was trying to hit the bucket ya know the BIG thing she was hitting the lil bottle tipped over.....

We aren't rednecks or anything...Papa and Sess shooting off the front porch (at least we don't have a couch on our front porch)

Ran out of paint balls

Still wish I could be this dang cute

She's a dead eye like her Auntie Ucky

There was a sippy cup they put on a pole and was seeing who could shoot it off first.....Sess WON!!!

Nana gave them a bird house for them to paint for her....oh see the big hole in the bucket?? Sess did that but I'm sure I helped a lil with it!!! hahaha

PALM TREES and TODD!!!! What more could a girl want???

My flight was at 11:20 a.m. I believe I might have been just a bit overly excited to go see Todd cause I left my house at 8:00 a.m. and ended up sitting at the airport for what seemed like FOREVER!!!! Finally MY plane got to the gate :) And of course I had to do the traditional self pic of me sitting in the airport dieing to get on the plane.....and still had an hour to sit and wait lol!!! Ok I said I was a bit overly excited!!!
Todd is a lil bit camera shy. Like he refuses to let me take a picture of him and it drives me NUTTY!!!! But he had homework to finish so I laid on the bed playing my DSi and played with his adorable nephews.
After he had finished his homework we went to dinner at a place called Claim Jumper. Dinner was amazing....our server SUCKED!!! But OMG the dessert we had to go was unbelievable. It had its own SHOEBOX as a to go box!!!! Todd has BIG hands and just look at the size of this PIECE of cake.

Hahaha.....we shared and this was ALL we BOTH could eat of this ONE piece of cake!!! His sister in law was so excited to help us eat it.

One of the reasons Todd and I have so much fun together is we both LOVE to play games with each other. We took the DSi with us everywhere including DINNER. We went to Mario's for a late lunch and we played games together....of course while holding hands. So romantic :) Absolutely loved it :)

I flew into Long Beach airport. It was so cute....so small.

Did I mention I totally forgot there were PALM TREES in California!!! Palm trees and Todd gave be BIG smiles all weekend long :)

On my sad sad flight home (rainy state of WASHINGTON) there were a few amazing and beautiful views.....

Just about to land in Seattle

The beautiful mountain I see everyday!!

Lil morsel of HEAVEN!!!

On the way down to Utah I was talking to mom. Told her that I needed to figure out what my lil morsel of heaven was going to be for this trip. Pacific beach was Dibbs, Kachloch was Gouda cheese so I'd need something for this trip. She turns and looks at me and says TODD!!! So yes Todd was my lil morsel of complete and udder HEAVEN for 3 days!!!
He's so dang cute, how could he not have been my lil piece of heaven :)
We had so much fun finally meeting and being with each other for a couple days that just wasn't long enough. We are trying to figure out the next time he gets to be my piece of heaven again :)

The road trip down to Utah

I'm not sure if I could travel any other way then in an RV or an airplane for long road trips. We were in a 37 foot RV pulling the truck and the motorcycle in the back of the truck.... Harmon and Matthew playing there DS's. This is what they looked like pretty much the entire time.
Amazing view of Mt. Hood as we drove through Portland

Stopped at a rest stop....can you tell I'm just a bit excited to get to Utah???

Wouldn't be a road trip without the traditional picture of Mississippi and Texas :)

On the second day of the drive down to Utah, Dad needed to get out and walk around for a bit. We stopped at a rest stop, dad, Harmon and Matthew got out to walk around. Dad came back to the RV and said you have to come look at the cactus we found its just right over there. Haha yeah right...we walk through the bushes and more bushes and down some trail that I'm not really sure was really a trail out into the middle of no where to see this beautiful cactus blooming :) Matthew then found another cactus, stuck it with the stick and carried it around saying he caught a cactus, it tried to run but he got it!!!

Super fun!!!

This was one of the many breath taking views from the motorcycle ride dad took me on up the canyon
Hahaha our shadow