Thursday, August 14, 2014

Cameron's Birthday and Los Angeles Beach Trip

We celebrated Cameron's birthday last Monday. We had some friends over for dinner and brownies, then we opened gifts that night. He got matching Bronco's t-shirts for he and David. 
 We've had a little playtime before Presley started kindergarten. We tried to get outside early before it's too hot. 
 Presley started ballet. She loves dancing and is quite the natural!
 David, Anna and I started going to a playgroup on post. It's held in the gymnasium and they have tons of soft baby toys, along with wagons and little tikes cars. He loves all the toys.
 We went to Orange County with Samantha last weekend. Cameron started his first rotation in the box, so it was a great time for us to get out of town for a few days. We enjoyed cocktail hour downstairs when we first got in. The kids love staying in a hotel. 
 We met my good friend from college, Kim, at a children's museum in LA called Pretend City Saturday morning. This place was so cute! The kids could pretend to work in all kinds of different careers. David loved the farm the best. He played in the dirt digging up veggies, then moving the dirt to the dump trucks. 
 He quickly turned into a musician and played on his guitar.
 Presley loved the beach area. 
And David loved the water tables the best. He had to change clothes after this area. He was soaked, but I'm so glad they had fun. It was really nice to catch up with Kim and meet her son. 
 We went out to the Newport Beach Pier that night and had dinner.
 These babies LOVE the beach!
 We had so much fun with Samantha. She is SO helpful and so loving to our kids. I couldn't imagine now having her on post with us. It's been so nice to already have a friend here. We've been doing most meals together and she's always helping me with the kids or watching them for me so I can run one here or there.
 Sunday we went back to Newport Beach. It is such a nice area. The kids absolutely love the beach. The ocean was ice cold, but they didn't mind. They loved jumping waves, while Anna enjoyed piling sand on her legs and toes, then knocking it off. It was such a fun day!! Wish Cameron could've come with us.
Lunch before we had to head back to post. 
 Getting so tired after squeeling and playing in the waves for a while!
They all crashed as soon as we got in the car to head home.

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