4th Of July Weekend

We started off our weekend by meeting our friends the Balsamos, Mike Seal, and Lyssa for dinner on Friday night at Jimmy Carter's Mexican cafe near our house (I thought he was a peanut farmer prior to being President?).

On Saturday morning we went to the church pancake breakfast.  That funny face Wyatt is making is his "sniffing" face, he's trying to tell me he wants to sniff the clementine.  He's awesome.

We all went on a scavenger hunt around the parking lot.  Can you believe the little toddlers actually won, they beat the young men, young women, and adult couples.  If you need a 2 year old to find random things in the bushes, they can get it done!  I had three toddlers with me and I sent them each out looking in different bushes for different things and we came back with all the items first.  Wyatt found the bonus item of the dandelion, way to go!

After Wyatt's nap on Saturday we drove up to Laguna Beach to spend the night with our friends the Thimons, the Gibbons were also in town for the weekend.  Here we are hanging out on the balcony blowing bubbles.  What a view huh?

In the evening their community had a 4th of July party with a BBQ and a band playing at the park near their house.   We're getting ready to party.

The boys, getting ready for the band.

Josh hanging out with Wyatt.

Here is a video of Wyatt dancing along with the music.

We had fun that night then got up the next day to go to the beach.  It was pretty packed down there, but we had a blast.  The guys headed down earlier to stake our spot on the beach.  As you can tell from this video they really wore themselves out getting everything set up.  Clowns.

The Thimons family.

The boys taking a much needed break after setting up all the beach equipment for 4 kids and 6 adults.

I got my butt kicked on the paddle board, my instincts took over and I thought I could surf the board back into the beach, bad idea, I got rocked by the waves.  I'm still recovering from a bruised arm and tender rib cage, ouch, lesson learned...the paddle board is not a surfboard.

We decided to go back to Old Town for the 4th this year.  We have had so much fun there in the past and this year was no exception.  We met up with a few friends of ours at the Mormon Battalion then headed over to a little restaurant for lunch.  Just a quick update on how much Wyatt has changed here is a picture from last 4th at the same restaurant.  He was a chunk, check out that double chin!

This year...wow he really is growing up fast, he already has a goatee!

Eating with the crew.

Hanging out listening to music, watching the sack races and square dancers.

Wyatt decided to climb a tree with the other boys.

We took a horse drawn carriage ride.

We stopped by the bay on our way home.  We went down here to take this photo because it was on this spot 53 years ago to the day that Pop Pop arrived from Texas on a bus and started boot camp.  He had more fun on this July 4th! 

And finally we ended the weekend with a walk through Balboa Park.  What a fun packed holiday.