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We had a great day in Orange County with my sister, Briana, yesterday. She is so blessed to live in such a beautiful place. Truly is awesome!!!! We needed lunch to take to the beach so we found this little Bagel Shop and mom bought us some really delicious sandwiches and salads to take, why is it that places by the beach have the best food! Briana took us to this new beach that she found about a week or 2 ago. We had to climb up and over these rocks and walk down a steep flight of stairs. We were in this great little cove. The swimming area was roped off by buoys and on the other side of the buoys boats were going back and forth. The beach was very small, so the boys in particular could not wander to far away from us. There were no waves, or very tiny waves made by the wakes of boats going very slowly past us, GREAT for the little ones however Sierra was missing waves. I did get in the water with her to play and it was freezing! I made it work and we both layed on her boogie board sideways and kicked to the buoys, great time for us to spend together, we needed that because I was having a grouchy day. I took Ashton in the water after I played with Sierra and swam with him for a minute and talked and spun him around, good for us too! We stayed at the beach for a few hours and then on the way back to Briana's mom took us to Frigato's, Healthy Mexican Food, is what it says on the sign outside. It was so GOOD!!! Mom got each of us a salmon taco with grilled veggies with cheese on the side. So YUMMY!!! Then mom took us to Tootie Fruity and that also was so good, Pomegranate Frozen Yogurt with dark chocolate mini chips on top is what I got and thoroughly enjoyed. The kids each got peanut butter frozen Yogurt with sprinkles and Ashton got gummy bears too and Sierra got Cookie Dough chunks with her sprinkles. We went back to Briana's finished our yogurt, said hello to Brett, talked for a little bit and then said our goodbyes. It's always hard to say goodbye but we really had a great day, great memories.

We walked to the rocks too and gently poked at some sea anemones, well my kids did Briana didn't let Nixon disturb the sea life. Ashton squished one of the anemones a little to hard (didn't hurt him) and it squirted water up at him and Lincoln. Made me laugh!


What is with these boy's not looking at the camera!


What are Ashton and Nixon looking at?

Oh, just the seaweed monster!

(Sierra came to me and said "mom there's the Seaweed Monster, Is it real?")

The holes were there but Sierra added the scariness or you could say grouchiness to the face. This is how she was feeling about there being no waves here. :)
Shortly after her first visit to the water she came back to the sand and asked me if we could go to a different beach because there were no waves here, I told her to go ask Grammy because she was in charge today sadly Grammy told her we are staying at this beach today because we are here with Aunt Briana. She walked over to where I was with the boys and wrote in the sand. This is NOT too much fun! :)

She tried!

The boy's were building a ramp for the monster truck to go over, Nixon was blowing on it. Funny story about our monster truck. Lincoln came to me and asked me if he could play with the monster truck, I said "sure where is it?" Couldn't see it anywhere. I asked Briana because she was on the other side of the beach with Rossi, didn't know if maybe he had it. She said "I saw a little boy in white underwear playing with it, he's had it for the last hour." Sierra is a brave soul, I asked her if she would go over there with Lincoln and ask for the truck back. She did and the boy ran away from her. His mom heard Sierra ask for it so she took it from him and gave it to Sierra. This boy had a meltdown. He started chasing Sierra, never reached her because his mom stopped him. But he was running away from his mom, crying and freaking out. I felt bad but it was our truck and our boy's wanted to play with it. He ended up calming down and being fine.