California Fun

We spent the weekend in California ... kept very busy, but we had a great time. We spent a lot of time driving from place to place, but the girls did very well most of the time.


Friday, we spent the afternoon with our friends, the Louviere's, at their house in Murrieta, CA. We had a very nice, relaxing, low-key evening hanging out while the kids all played together. Thank you Troy & Leigh Anne for the great hospitality. We had a great time.

Riley watching Henderson play his video game.

Riley loved playing outside with Vivian.

Ms. Leigh Anne sure did have some beautiful flowers. Reagan loves flowers and has a hard time not picking them.



Saturday, we went to Hermosa Beach, CA for Scott's mom's family reunion. We met a lot of great people and had a wonderful time at Adele's house. The house was right next to the beach, so we got to spend some time in the sand. The girls had a great time spending the day outside in the beautiful 70 degree weather.

Checking out the Pacific Ocean.
Reagan & cousin Hannah running to the beach together.
Mommy was unsure if Riley would like the feel of the sand.
Mommy getting a little of relaxing in.
Riley thought the sand was great. She enjoyed throwing it and was filthy very quickly.

Reagan admiring the water.
Yummy! Riley enjoying one of her favorite things ... food!
Reagan & Hannah found a bunch of snails and had them all in a pile together. Everytime Hannah would walk away, Reagan would sream for her to come back because the snails would start crawling away and she would say "I can't catch them all! Help!"
This is one of the coolest trees we have ever seen!
Reagan climbing her first tree!



All the kids decided to climb the tree at one time. The poor tree was bombared with kids.
Reagan & Hannah still hanging out in the tree.
Reagan & cousin Tyler enjoyed the scooters.

Sunday, we spent the day in Palm Desert, CA where Troy (Louviere) & Scott got to have a nice Father's Day away from everyone. They golfed in the 115 degree weather, but had a wonderful time. The girls and I spent the day at the pool with Leigh Anne and the Louviere kids. The pool was beautiful, with waterfalls and a water slide. Reagan had a good time swimming. She was swimming alone with a kick board for hours. She even fell off the kick board and did exactly what she was supposed to do if you fall into the water ... she swam to the side of the pool and grabbed on! I was so proud of her. Her swim lessons have paid off. The unfortunate part of Sunday was that Mom did not take any pictures. Ms. Leigh Anne took this picture of Riley, passed out at the pool.

The drive home Sunday night was long and tiring after swimming and golfing all day long. Four hours seemed to last forever.

Wiped out after a long weekend.
Notice the puppies are in the seat belt, too!