December 5, 2025

Wishing this morning’s breakfast was a Banzai Bowl on the beach. Instead I’ll just put on my warm socks for the day because it is cold. 

December 3, 2025

Funniest Wednesday ever. Saw Ryan Hamilton tonight and of course laughed and laughed. And the two openers we’ve seen before had new stuff that was funny. Wahoo. 

Cam sent us this picture today which also made me smile.

December 2, 2025

Did some dish washing tonight and stacked a few to dry. No one could stack dishes like my dad. Thinking of that gave me a smile and a “washing the dishes” song line (he made up) in my head.

I sent this picture to Kenzie the other day. It's from our Christmas tree hunt in 2008.  He always had these big orange UDOT garbage bags that came in handy for Christmas wrapping paper gathering and making a sled.  :)

November 30, 2025

Woke up thinking what a blessing to have a home. And my Christmas cactus is bloom-ming! Plus the church released their Christmas video short and as always I loved it.

November 29, 2025

We finally made it to Bunnyhenge.  :)  We also went to a mall with a food court and enough stores to pass the time before our flight (which had a sunset and cool clouds from above - I think flying is miraculous.) We all made it home safe and sound with another California trip to remember.

November 28, 2025

This morning we all walked to Banzai Bowls for a yummy breakfast.  Plus Sadie got some Seaside Donuts.  It was confirmed by Darren this trip that Seaside Donuts does in fact have the best apple fritters. We spent most of the day just hanging at the beach - some reading, some eating a burrito (even though its just dehydration), some chasing waves, and some just relaxing.  We saw more dolphins (with some water spray). Then it was a gelato run where Kenzie assured us that this is the best gelato she's ever had.  Dinner was Sadie's famous alfredo. 

November 27, 2025

Happy Thanksgiving.  We started out the day at Crystal Cove State Park.  Low tide was a bit inconvenient this trip but we hit a somewhat low tide this morning at 8am (which most of the kids voluntarily woke up for).

I took one for the team and did an oven shuffle for our TG meal while most were at the beach.  Costco came through with yummy food.

Back to the beach for a gorgeous sunset.  Our evening beach time was so much fun! We snapped some photos, played the hand push game, and had so many laughs.  Oh, and we saw a dolphin swimming with the sunset going strong behind it.  Sigh.

Evening had us playing games while watching Sky High (classic) and eating pie. This was a really good Thanksgiving!