The day my camera got hijacked...

 I took 2 cameras on vacation. One that is mine all mine, and one I could take to the beach and be ok with it it getting sand etc. And as a side note, it did get sand and/or water in it because when you try to view photos, you can only view one. You can no longer scroll. Oops.


So, here you go, pictures that I did not take.


Mini P's version of Vacation 2011:

This is my brother's blankie. We call it "Stinky". You can probably imagine why.

This is my cousin, doesn't she have pretty eyes???

This is a picture of my toes

This is Grandpa and Monkey's very favorite doggie -Tromo. We lost him a lot.

This is my Leapster 2. I LOVE it. I play it a lot.

These are my crayons. I really love to color!!!

This is my Mama. She needed to be in at least ONE photo!

Agent P's version of Vacation 2011

My brother and sister

A very important piece of something

My big brother's flip flops

Grandpa's bad hair day

The motorcycle accident I witnessed.

My hand

Monkey's version of Vacation 2011

This is everyone eating breakfast-CHEESE!

This is my Grandma - CHEESE!

This is my Daddy-CHEESE!
 (Yes, his eyes are bloodshot, not from over indulging, but from a long day at the beach)

This is my Grandma again -CHEESE Grandma!

This is the couch.

This is my mom messing up my pictures and turning the camera the wrong way.  I was doing just fine!

This is the kitchen.

And there is my Grandma again :)

The End.

10 Best things that happened on vacation

I thought I'd better tidy up my vacation posts in one final all encompassing post. I know what you are thinking... "YIPEE!!!"


While I do realize that vacation ended about 3 weeks ago, I am inundated with after vacation posts that I am dying to share with you. But in order to not jump around like a little kid in a bouncy house, I am trying to stay focused and will attempt to wrap up the remaining vacation in this post!


These are in no particular order because they are all really awesome things.


10. Spending vacation with lots people (At one point with 5 families there was 23 people)

Kids breakfast

Old Town

9. Beach at sunset

Agent P, Cassidy, ADog and Willow

8. Beach during day

Mini P

Agent P

Monkey and Mini P

7. Chocolate cake

Pure decadence

Leo LOVES cake!

Agent P, didn't leave even a morsel

6. Sand sculpture class by Grandpa

 Grandpa showing Agent P how to do sand art

It seems as tho he might have lost his audience...

Master piece for sale

5. Crab land - because what little sand crab doesn't want to be caught and handled by 3 and 6 year olds and held captive in a makeshift crab home?

"oh no you don't little crab - you are MINE!"

Swim for you LIFE little sand crab!!!!!

4. High tide surprise (This does rate as one of the funnier events...sad that other people's misery is funny to me..what can I say :) I'm not the only one who laughed and it was only a fluke that I captured it on camera)

Willow and ADog

3. Kids day alone: 3 hours of water sports WITHOUT PARENTS! How could a tween/teenager go wrong? They couldn't.

Getting ready to leave on their 3 hour tour
Preston, Willow, ADog, Shayne and Cassidy

Water bike (Cassidy)

Paddle board (Willow)

Do you see something wrong with this picture? Yes, the girl cousins (Willow and Cassidy) are paddling the boy cousin around. Well done Adog, well done.

2. Crazy hat day - having fun with my niece and Mini P at the crazy hat store at Seaport Village. 

Shayne can be such a turkey :)

A hat that captures Mini P perfectly!

1. Sitting on the beach with sand in my toes watching my family play at the beach!

And there you have it friends.


Vacation is over. 


And as a side note - one should never stop in Yuma on their way home from San Diego. It is a true vacation killer. Leaving San Diego it was 68. Yuma was 113. Go ahead, do the math.  Killjoy. 

Boogie boarding

One of my favorite activities as a kid at the beach was boogie boarding. What's not to love about riding a wave all the way in to the dry sand of the beach - getting up and rushing out to do it again? There are the times the rough waves slam you to the bottom of the ocean and you come up wearing sand like a new accessory...but I prefer to remember it the happy way :)


Since our boogie board had some problems surviving the heat of the summer and the abuse of living in our garage, Day 1 meant a trip to Costco where my sweet husband and sister found boogie boards and scored us a couple.  


The kids had to do a lot of boogie boarding sharing (sometimes even with the grown-ups adults parents), but no one ever complained out loud that we know of.

ADog

Then Agent P decided he was ready to take the plunge...

Heading out with Dad

Worn out!

The board was nearly as big as he was but he didn't let that stop him from boogie-ing a few times a day.