Really depressing, but Lisa's influence has officially worn off. We just had the best vacation ever, and I took like 10 pictures of the whole thing. Andrew took a few days off and we stay-cationed in Santa Barbara and it was awesome. We spent an afternoon in Solvang which is a Danish-styled town with windmills and traditional Danish food. Amelia enjoyed feeding this bear sculpture the rest of her broccoli.
We went hiking in Santa Barbara and went to the beach at Carpenteria. It was so fun to watch Amelia and Andrew playing in the water at the beach. Wish I had pictures of it...hopefully the images of Amelia clinging to Andrew as she braced for a wave, squealing in delight and the two of them walking hand in hand along the beach will remain in my mind's eye forever.
Then we went hiking in Ojai when we came face to face with a RATTLESNAKE. We didn't even notice him until he rose up and rattled at us about 4 feet away! Andrew grabbed me and we ran (the kids were both in packs thank goodness). When we got a safe distance away we stopped and watched him slither off into the bushes. Andrew thought to take a picture after the snake was almost gone, but he was big, and scary and creepy! Yikes!
The only other pictures we got were of Amelia enjoying Root Beer and wearing a swim diaper on her head. Good times.
3 comments:
Seriously, HOW is she looking older after such a short time?? Darling, darling kids! Beautiful family!!
You didn't do too bad, there's atleast one picture of each of you...that's an improvement... ;-)
Lisa
we did a hike like that once but we didn't see the snake until I was passed it and Kevin and Carter were up hill on the other side of the snake. It was quite the dilemma to see which one of us should move or should we hike alone.
Post a Comment