Sea Ranch Heaven...

It has been 7 years (Yes- you read right).... 7 years since we have been to Sea Ranch.

Schedules, health, and everything else have gotten in the way. But this year my family made Sea Ranch a PRIORITY. It was a much needed vacation and we were ALL ready to begin.

This view pretty much says it all. This place is so relaxing. The kids love the tide pools (they call them tadpoles) and I just love the sound of the waves hitting the rocks.

It is a win-win for grown-ups and kids.

The house we rented this year was definitely a keeper. It was great for my parents, Jody and her family and us Davis'.

A lot of time was spent dong absolutely nothing... which was PERFECT.

Exactly what we all wanted.

Games were played often, although electronics were brought out every once in a while too :)

Lunch at The Cliff House could not have been beat. There were a lot of happy tummy's after that meal.

Outside the restaurant was a fabulous tree (Scot and Elliots dream climbing tree to be exact). We lost them for awhile because they were having way too much fun.

There were a lot of pictures taken of happy, relaxed people....

There was beach going, rock climbing, abalone finding, hole digging,

and just plain old having fun and hanging out.

We found a fun looking church....

That doubled as a hat too.

Sea Ranch.... oh how I have missed you. Thank you for living up to the expectations that I remembered. You surely did not disappoint.

Til next time.

school festivities...

The kids have been hard at work on different school projects.....

Ellie has been devoting a lot of her time to her Sacagawea report. At first she had to write a report with a timeline about a character... and she chose Sacagawea. Then her class decided to do a living wax museum which was BRILLIANT. It also served as a fundraiser for the 5th grade field trips. Each student had to dress in character and decorate a background and bring props, as well as a money jar. On the night of the event- they had to recite a little blurp about themselves when someone put money into their jar. Then they froze until the next person inserted money. It was great and they earned a good amount for their school. Ellie did a fabulous job and we are very proud of our little Sacagawea.

Macie was assigned to do a family project and decorate a house that belonged to little red riding hood, the three little pigs or the big bad wolf. Macie decided to do little red riding hoods grandmas house. It could be no larger than a tissue box. Elliot created the house out of cardboard and Macie and I tiled the roof, painted the house and added all the little accessories.

It was a great little project and I have to say I think I like Kindergarten projects.

It was right up our families creative alley :)

Scot was given this hat to decorate for the 100th day of school. They were told to decorate it with any object they wanted ~ there just had to be 100 of them. Well, our big man who is REALLY into Star Wars right now decided he needed to have 100 Darth Mauls on his hat. So we cut and pasted a bunch of those evil guys.... and Scot was in heaven. He was one happy hat wearer.

That's it for school projects right now.

Although I'm sure there will be more around the corner ...

Little bowlers....

Last month we surprised the kids by taking them to the Bowling Alley.

Scot was the only one out of the kids who had ever bowled (unless you count bowling on the wii) :)

They were very excited (Can you tell?)

Scot was a little pro and had great form.

Bowling came very natural to Ellie too..




and then there was Macie. The little hurricane that she is was everywhere. She was slipping and sliding all over the floor. When she went up to bowl- she would throw it as hard as she could and it would take about 15 minutes to get down. It was so hilarious. She made us all laugh quite hard the whole time.

These kids are just the funnest little bowlers around.

Elliot (of course) got the high score of the game.... but we all had a great time





and we'll be back