Summer Fun: Beach Days

With so many beach days this Summer, (once a week at least) this one is a long post...


Emily and Nate playin' in the water

Emily and Nate loving the beach...

Trip to Leo Carrillo in Malibu...





Grassy area by the pier...



Running around with pals...

Daddy jet-skiing

Sand Angel (she made this one up all by herself)

Mother's Beach in the Harbor...boogie boarding with Jake

Future model?



Sunset



Lake Arrowhead beach day

Grandma and Emily

Toboggan in the sand? Didn't go very well

Hangin' with the cousins...Indigo and Brandon

Summer Fun: Pool Days & Swim Lessons

Swimming, Swimming, more Swimming


Diving for rings with Mommy

Fun with friends

Emily and her buddy Nate

Emily and I at a friend's "beach house" swimming pool



Swim Lessons


"The Glide"

"Big Arms"

Diving!

Summer Fun: Bounce Place

Spent the day with good friends at a new Bounce place called Frogg's Bounce House. The kids had a blast!

Summer Fun: Container Gardening

This year I was determined to plant some veggies. We rent our house, so digging up the yard wasn't an option so I decided to "container garden." I bought some huge plastic buckets and drilled holes in the bottom of them, and scrounged up a couple of storage bins and did the same to them. Add potting mix, plant food and plant cuttings...wah lah! Here are my veggies in full bloom:

Summer Fun: Bare Feet

Summer Fun: Irvine Spectrum

I've been trying to spend some good quality alone time with Emily this summer. On one of my friends blog, they went to this fun cupcake place at the Spectrum. So I decided to copycat, and Emily and I had a blast!

It's called SweetSpot.


You choose a cupcake flavor, then pick one of these fun frosting colors.



You then can pick your candy toppings:

Decorate...

Enjoy!

What a fun time!


Then we went on the ferris wheel:





And the train:





Emily loved the fun activities, and all the one-on-one mommy time!

CURLY :(

Emily had braids in her hair all night a few weeks ago, and in the morning when we took them out, her hair was super wavy-fro. She HATED it!
She immediately wanted to take a shower to make it GO AWAY!
(Super Drama Queen)
Seriously????

Time Waster

OK- Usually I don't fall for these things but I thought this was too funny!
If you want to waste your own time doing this, go to yearbookyourself.com.