Boogie Boardin'

Us girls spent an afternoon at the beach with some boogie boards trying to conquer the Pacific Ocean. By far, LeighAnne was the winner. At one point she told me-her frustrated moma to "just be ONE with the waves" Honestly, another week in California and she'd been voting Democrat and living in trees!!!

Dona...you just travel AGAIN across the world with 3 kids...what are you going to do next?

I'M GOING TO DISNEYLAND!!!

Do you know the way to San Clemente?

So, the kiddos and I got on a plane at 0240 Sunday morning (yes, that's 2:40 IN THE MORNING for you non-military) for beautiful, sunny warm California. My wonderful, bestest, favoritist, beautifulist friend-from-Germany Jeanne picked us up in Los Angeles and drove us to her parents beach house in San Clemente (famous for Richard Nixon's R&R's) To say it is paradise isn't even close. Crashing waves, beautiful fragrant flowers, sea lions on the rocks in the water, and young Marines running shirtless on the beach (oops, didn't mean that!) I'm still not sure I want to go to Disneyland.

Tim is joinging us first thing in the AM on Friday and we check into our Disney hotel later that evening. But in the meantime, here's a picture of the kids on the deck of the house.

Train Boy

Our train boy finally got to stand next to a moving real life train. Tim had last Friday off and Jamison personally requested to go see "big trains" so we went. He took the whole thing so seriously that I don't have one picture of him smiling...he was overwhelmed and so sweet.

Here's a picture with his newest obsession....the CABOOSE!











And here he's getting ready to fuss at Kenai for walking on the tracks. He has a train movie that warns of the dangers of playing on railroad tracks, and my newest and youngest safety officer had to work hard to keep Kenai in check.