Beach Bums

Dear Kacie,

You love to eat sand.

Ok, back up.

We left for the beach Friday morning. We got there, set up all our stuff and then headed straight towards the water! It was a little cold definitely so we didn't take you in far.

Plus, sharks.

So we sat right at the edge of the water line and started digging a hole and building a wall.

We put you in the hole and you bent right over and bit the sand!

You loved it. We sat there with you and you kept licking your hands and trying to bite more sand from the ground. It was gross!

We took you up to the covered area after a while. We cleaned you up so you could take a nap. Except we realized that we forgot extra clothes… luckily they were just in the car!

Between my phone (which I barely took out) and grandma and grandpa's phones, we got several pictures!

Dad was so relaxed there and so excited to finally take you to one of his favorite places. Next time it will be even more fun though because he will be able to take you out a little further!

He has been working so hard at school and work so it was great to let him run free!

You guys photo bombed a picture of Aunt Kassidi and Uncle Devin

And your Aunts and I posed in the sand! If you can't tell, one of us had spent the summer living in California while the other two were not out in the sun.

You took a great nap with your grandpa

I'm not entirely sure who had you on Saturday but I got to take a nice long nap on the beach. It was delightful.

This is everyone that made it to the beach

And these are all the cousins

It was very nice to spend two days with no worries and you did great for your first time at the beach!

In this picture, dad's water bottle was sitting on the edge of the chair so instead of picking it up, you just bent down and took a few sips!

Friday night we went and walked around Balboa Pier area. I saw this onsie and it reminded me of when you would spit up aaallll over me. I was really glad that we were past that phase.

They had a cool area set up with a DJ, lights and hula hoops. Dad and I were pretty good at it. I haven't hula hopped in a long time!

You just kept wanting to go run around in the middle of the dancers/hula hoops. It was a bummer that we couldn't let you!

Saturday night we just hung out at Bryce and Alices. You loved running around playing with the kids… well kind of, you really just wanted to run around on your own and get in to everything!

The drive home went pretty well. I think you do better when there isn't anyone sitting by you. We got to stop by my BFF's house in Vegas on the way home. I of course didn't get a picture with Jenessa but I should have! I think you love her as much as I do!

Your grandma and Grandpa Jarvis also got to escape for a few days. Grandma sent me this picture and it made me laugh a lot!

It's photo shopped… but still funny!

It was another great trip that your dad loved being able to spend a lot of time with you and let me have a little break. He really is so great with you!

We love you so much!

Love,

Mom and Dad