Carter Visit Part Duex

So lots more Huntington Beach pictures. The second day we met up with Dan, Marie, and the girls at a rather large park that had a nature center/walk. To myself as an apparent desert folk, it was not a dry heat. The highlight was a big hill, then a playground, and finally ducks. But the picture from that visit was of Ryan and Makaya. Mostly because it's one that we were able to catch with them both in and photogenic.



We went to In-and-out for lunch. The cool kids got to sit at the bar stool area.



The boys took to the beach. Trevor and Ryan both seemed to enjoy spending time in the sand and the wet sand. The water was a bit chilly, but interesting to look at.





Ryan and Grandma Jackie looking for Tsunamis






Hotdogs and fries and sand for lunch

The beach has spots where you can have fires. So we met up to have a little picnic and then toast marshmallows.


Ryan was pretty into climbing in and out of chairs.


Makaya, Trev, John, Marie, Jackie, Gracie



Trevor and Gracie chasing Seagulls


They were pretty cute


And they're off again




Dan and Marie brought a kite. Trevor was super excited about getting to fly it.


Family Picture


Ryan found the package of chocolate bars and carried them around most of the roasting time.

Carter Visit Part1

Grandpa Bill and Grandma Jackie came out to visit this past week. We stayed around our area a couple days and then drove down to Huntington Beach to meet up with Marie and her family. So we have LOTS of pictures and I'll probably be splitting them up a bit.

After a very brief period of standing by the door and staring, the boys seemed to warm up to the grandparents. Saturday we went up to the Kern River Reserve Saturday with a group from our church for a little nature hike and then up to Kernville for lunch at the brewery. The flowers are already popping up all over the place up there, so the drive itself was interesting too (but no pictures of course)


At the preserve


Playing Ryan catch at the park in Kernville




Ryan practicing wearing a hat to cover his future bald spot





We drove down to Huntington Beach Monday and stayed through Friday. We ended up renting a cute little house for our visit.



We met up with Dan, Marie, Gracie and Makaya that evening and had some beach time. Trevor is much more excited about the beach than last year. The water was a bit freezing so he mostly instructed John to fetch him buckets of it to play with in the sand.



Trevor built a lot of character the first evening. The part of the beach we visited was also open to dogs and after being mildly chased by a friendly large dog and freaking out decided a little later that he does indeed like big dogs. Then after the beach we let them dip in the pool a little bit where Trevor took one step to far and tried to drown. After Dan saved him he was initially freaked out again but then decided that "I was almost swimming!" So it was a success afterall.






Ryan was pretty thrilled with all the beach toys. Lots of stuff to carry around and hand to other people


Ryan handing me the shell and saying 'Tankewww'