I love summer. Love it. I love the long warm summer nights. Days spent in the water and sunshine, eating ice cream and staying up late. Troy's first summer is in the books and it was a blast.
Highlights include
A trip to Venice Beach to check out the scene there. Might I add that I had never in all my southern California life been to Venice Beach...and umm, might I add, that I will never go back. Not that we didn't enjoy it, but it's really just nothing special...there are several other piers and boardwalks in So Cal that are way better in my opinion.
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| Family Selfie |
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| The park on the beach in Venice is pretty great. |
A fun filled family 4th of July! It was so great to have my older sister and her kids here to spend lots of time in the pool and at the beach. We had a blast with them.
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| Blue eyed boys |
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| Kai is Troy's biggest fan |
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| Family fun in the pool! |
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| Sisters on 4th of July |
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| Yay for cousins |
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| Firework fun |
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| Celebrating Nana Carol's birthday |
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| Patriotic Bunch |
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| 4th of July at the beach |
Troy also had his first trip to the Orange County fair. Adam scored a mystery shop where we had to visit 10 food booths! 10! It was a little much and we tried to take food home, but tossed a lot too.
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| Fair food |
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| Lovin the fair! |
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| All tuckered out |
We took a few bike rides down to the beach to enjoy the fact that we live 1 mile from the ocean!
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| He wasn't a fan of his helmet at first but he does ok now. |
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| Sleeping baby in the bike trailer |
We spent lots and lots of time in the pool, Troy has become quite the water baby.
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| Who doesn't love a baby in an animal towel. |
Like I said, we had a wonderful summer. I am so thankful to live in such a beautiful place and be able to enjoy it so much this year. The best part is, summer is actually hardly over. After all, we will have 70 - 80 degree sunny days for at least two more months. So until the time changes and it's dark again by 5, we're going to soak it up!
