Day at the Beach

It's Spring Break here for the kids this week. We decided to spend our Saturday at the beach and headed to Manresa Beach in Aptos. In Northern Cal it is still early for beach season, but we wanted to go nontheless.
The girls were thrilled and Kristian could care less. He was grumpy the entire time. He and Ryan will be heading to Bakersfield later this week with Grandad, so he will have more fun then.

Nicole and elise heading to get some water in their bucket

Erika showing me her treasure she found on the sand

Nicole showing me one of her many shells she collected (she is just like me).

The girls playing in the sand.

Elise getting ready to change and Mr Grumpy pants in the background.

Ryan's Grand Canyon Trip

Here are a few of the photos Ryan took in the Grand Canyon. He has over 300 photos, so I tried to select the best ones.

Of course, the first photo is of his destroyed boots. Good thing he made it through the trip with them, but just barely. Thank goodness the ranger station had duct tape! The all purpose fixer upper.