Opening Social, Beach Party!

Today was the Young Men, Young Women Opening Social, Beach Day! We all went to Carpinteria and we had a beautiful day! The weather was on its best behavior today, not one cloud in the sky. We had so much fun!!! Love working with the youth, they always have the most fun! :) My assignment was to go early and get us a spot on the beach. My good and supportive husband came with me along with my children and we set up a couple of Easy Ups and blankets and got us a great spot. The Garcia's met us there to play and the Bartley's came too, along with the Almond's, Darrow's, Thompson's, Keil's...the activity was a great success...tons of families, youth leaders, youth...tons of fun! We played at the beach and several of the youth along with adults went on a 14 mile bike ride. I was going to go with the girls but one of the boy's didn't have a bike so I gave up my ride for him, so glad he could go and do it, so fun for these kids...so good for these kids. We just stayed at the beach and played and when they got back Brother Schramm fired up the BBQ and he and Kathie, other leaders and mom's contributed food and made dinner for everyone.

Roman buried the girls and then turned them into mermaids and then smashed their mermaid bodies by laying on top of them.

Have you ever seen a dirtier dad, he does not seem to mind being so dirty, so fun for the kids!

Elijah, Ashton, Asher

Tatiana, Ali, Sonora, Sierra and Brynn (quite the bathing beauties!) :)

We left about 7:00pm, right when everyone was getting ready to eat. We had been there since 12:00pm so we were ready, we got Carl's Jr. on the way home, not as good as a BBQ on the beach but we filled our tummies and straight to bed for kiddos when we got home.
WHAT A GREAT DAY!!!!