Opportunity Village 2010

Ethan and Blake played in a recital at Opportunity Village this year. Lucky for us this meant free admission to the festivities....

Red Rock Hike over Thanksgiving Wknd 2010

Excuse the camera blur. I took the boys hiking with friends (Darren stayed home with a napping Nash) over Thanksgiving weekend. The kids had a ton of fun scrambling over the rocks and making it to the top of a canyon in Red Rock. Even Keaton was a trooper and saved complaining (and it was only a little) for the very end of the return trip out of the canyon. It's so nice to be surrounded by friends who enjoy the same things that we do and make it work to do these kind of outings together!





Blake meditating...

Santa Train, Dec 2010

We got to be passengers on the Santa Train in Boulder City this Christmas season. It's always fun to do this- and even better to do with great friends. If you go on this expecting a great view, you are in for a big let-down. For the first half of the ride you see mostly drainage ditches and garbage stuck in the Nevada state flower- the sagebrush. But it was this view that gave us a good chuckle and we had a great time!

Christmas Card 2010

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Disney at Christmas 2010

Christmas time is always fun at Disneyland... and this year was even funner as my sister Jill and her family joined us. The first two days we were there the weather was so warm that we wore shorts and t-shirts. Good times!

A few family pictures-




Riding a roller coaster with the boys and some friends-



Visiting Mini Mouse's house in Toon Town-







A few random shots-

San Clemente 2010

This summer was a bit unusual when it comes to beach trips. We usually go with Darren's family for a week to Newport but that didn't work out this year. So, we found a place for ourselves in San Clemente and had a great time forming unique memories with just the six of us. My favorite part about this trip is that it was just us and our schedule...we did whatever we wanted and we were together the whole time. We definitely missed the entire Bryan family experience, though!



We took a few day excursions and the following photos tell a bit about two of those- a trip to the Rainbow flip flop store and a trip to a really fun pirate park...




One of my all time favorite memories of this trip is the swing set on the beach. We always set our stuff up near one of the sets so that the kids could go back and forth between the water, the sand, and the swings. The kids were crazy as they tried to launch themselves as high as possible on the dismount. It was fun to walk to the swings and get an ice cream along the way after our dinner but before the sun went down...




The boys love to find sand crabs and at this beach there were tons of them. I'm not going to lie, it can be addicting to dig and search for the mama of all crabs. This was my fave sand activity this year...






The view from out condo balcony... It was only a few minutes walk to get there. There is a great 6 mile path along the beach that I got to run along every day that we were there. There's also a train the runs along this section of the beach. It was fun for Nash to hear it and run to the window to watch it.


Good times...


Ethan and one of the many friends that he made at the beach this year. I love that the kids have the courage to just walk up to people and make a new bud. I wish adults were that way...


The boys and their remote control cars. We would take them down to the big empty parking lot in the morning before the crowds showed up. This usually ended up in a bit of a fight as they all would "accidentally" ram each other...


Sand, sand, and more sand...




The sunburned, tired, disheveled face tells the beach story the best...