California Part 1

After a 14 1/2 hour drive on Saturday we were happy to have a good night sleep and a Sunday in order to relax and recover from the drive. We stayed at Mark's brother John and his wife Tracy's big beautiful home in Moorpark. It was great because basically the kids were either upstairs or outside playing with their cousins the whole time! Very little entertaining involved. John and Tracy are amazing hosts and we ate wonderful food, including her amazing homemade bread and had lots of fun. Unfortunately I don't think I took any pictures at their house. :( Monday we decided to head to the beach. It was beautiful and sunny in Moorpark. About 5 miles from the beach it went from sunny to this:

Such is the coast in California. The adults were freezing, wrapped in blankets but that didn't stop the kids. They had a blast playing even though they were purple and shaking the whole time! We did get to see a school of dolphin playing a little ways off the shore for quite some time, it was awesome.
The twinners Sam and Blake

Emily was hilarious. You can tell she loves the beach.

Cold Mark with his cheesy smile

All running from the wave except brave little Emily

This picture cracks me up! Johnny is bugging the little ones and Blake's face is awesome!

Getting lotioned up after bravely taking the shirt off.

Mark thought I was mean, but Sam got tossed by wave and I thought he looked so cute all soaking wet and crying.