Surf and Turf

Because we are new to the blogging world, I have decided to go back to the beginning of the summer and start there. So for the coming weeks you will get a summer in review. Hopefully, I can get through all of our summer adventures before school starts. Our summer started out as all summer vacations should with a trip to the beach. We piled the kids and half of our home into our van and started the long 10 hour drive to California (note: this is just 10 days after we had just moved). The fact that I could even find our swimming suits was a miracle. But we arrived unscathed from the journey, and parked our behinds on the beach for a week. We vacationed with my sister Amber and her family. My mom and her husband Kim and his son Ryan, with a short visit from my sister-in-law Meg. There was boogie boarding, campfires, castle building, movie watching, and as you can see from the picture s'mores. And as a special treat for me and Byron we spent one night in San Diego shopping and going to a John Mayer concert. When the sun had baked us to the core we packed up again and came home refreshed and ready to start our summer.