June Gloom?

We were lucky enough to have beautiful weather at the beach in June. We tried to take advantage of it every chance we got! 

Here are some pictures from our June beach trips.

Mom insists that I carry something down to the beach. Since my boogie board is a bit cumbersome and the sand toys heavy I choose to push Jude. Slimes especially likes it when I run with him and do a little off roading....Mom, not so much.

 Slimes enjoys chilling in other people's beach chairs, especially if they (read: Aunt Shalaine) want to sit in them.

 Sometimes Mom and I dig a big pit for us to play in. Well, lets be honest...Mom does most of the work. She managed to capture a rare moment here when I was helping out:)

 My San Jose friends came down to visit for the weekend. They spent a few days at Disneyland but took a day to go to the beach with us. Being buried in the sand was a good idea...until the tide started to rise.

What can we say, at the beach there are No Bad Days!

The Aquarium of the Pacific

Romi, RT, and Baby Rawson came to visit us from Redlands. We met at the Aquarium of the Pacific to check out the fishes. I have been seeing the commercials for a while so I was pretty excited to go and see my friends there.

Mom didn't believe me when I told her that you could pet jelly fish at the aquarium. She was pretty shocked when she saw the tank and everyone touching the moon jellys! So sometimes, even moms make mistakes:)

We also could pet sharks and sting rays. Don't worry, its not as scary as it seems.

Romi and RT's Mom was nice enough to buy me some Lorakeet food to feed the birds. It was so cool to have them come right next to you and drink out of your hand!

Slimes is obsessed with things in the air, so he was pretty thrilled to get up close and personal with birds. 

Romi and Me

Slimes and RT

The birds are EVERYWHERE! We also were there in the morning time so they were nice and hungry. 

There was a fun water pad with lots of sea creatures to climb on. RT and Jude were having a blast on it....and got SOAKED!

We finished off our trip by watching a little play about penguins. 

Slimes had more fun climbing on the seats.

It was a great day with our friends.

T-Ball: Huntington Beach Style

Mom signed me up for Huntington Beach Summer T-ball. I couldn't be more excited! I mean, look at the awesome t-shirt I got. My team is called the Blue Birds.

We start off with some stretching and running.

Then we've been learning all about the game. We practice catching, hitting, and running the bases. We even had a practice at the batting cages. I'm hoping we get to start playing games soon.

This is what makes it quintessential Huntington Beach...the smoke stacks in the background.

Slimes is taking in all the action, learning from the pros. Sorry buddy, you've got 2 more years before you can play.

California Adventure Revised

I have been counting down the days until Cars Land opened at California Adventure. Mom said it was crazy to go on opening day...but I think she secretly wanted to go too! Paga was the only one who was crazy enough to join us. We didn't sleep out in line or get there at 6 a.m., but we went first thing in the morning.

The entire entrance to the park is redone to look like Buena Vista St. when Walt Disney first came to California. There is even a trolley car that you can ride on.

I thought this old gas station was pretty cool looking.

Cars Land was incredible....and incredibly crowded. The shortest wait was 2 hours to get on a ride. We aren't that insane. The whole place looked exactly like the movie. Mom and Slimes stopped by the Cozy Cone motel to get us the official cone drinks.

I think Slimes thoroughly enjoyed Cars Land.

We snuck over to Disneyland just to ride the reopened Matterhorn. Not much has changed except the cars. You no longer ride two people to a seat. Each person gets their own seats in the bobsled. Paga said its jerky as ever!

Cheers to the Nut Jobs who go on opening day!

Bass Lake with the Rhodes

My San Jose friends: Brooks, Brady, and Brett (and their parents Luc and Reanna) invited us to their cabin in Bass Lake. I couldn't think of anything more awesome...so we loaded up the car and headed up there.

 Unfortunately as soon as we got to the grapevine we saw that it was closed because of a fire so we had to loop around and take the long way up. Instead of 5 hours it took 10! and we had to eat at Carrows...which was Mom's least favorite part.

 We finally got there and it was such a beautiful place! We enjoyed breakfast out on the deck in the morning with a beautiful view of the lake. This is my buddy Brady.

 Slimes was loving it!

 As Brooks would say, "I'm waving Old Glory"

 What's better than jumping with Brett and Brady on a mattress?

A giant dog pile:)

 I got to sleep with my buddies in the front room...after enjoying some ice cream from Millers Landing.

 After a long day at the lake the boys were ready to crash out in front of a movie on the couch...especially Luc.

More fun pictures to come!

Boating Adventures

 On Saturday we decided to rent a party boat to hang out on the lake.

 It was so awesome. It could pull a tube behind it and even had a BBQ aboard!

 Ahoy, I'm driving the boat.

 Dad let me drive some for real, until a water cop pulled up and said "What do you think you're doing?"  He was actually referring to something else we were doing, but it made Mom nervous enough that I didn't really drive after that.

 Brooks and I thought it was time to test out the tube. We were all smiles until the boat took off and the tube nose dived under sending us flying off the tube. Thank heavens we had the life vests on! We decided to only brave the tube with an adult after that.

 Mom and Slimes.

 Slimes was loving the wind in his face and the water splashing up in to the boat.

 The brave kids took rides on the tube with Dad. The brave kids were me, Brooks, and Mom:) It was SOOOO fun!

 We pulled the boat up to a sandy cove and played around for a while. Jude loves Luc, they're best buddies:)

Me and Brady,

playing on the floating tube!

 Catching some rays.

 Slimes mostly stuck to the beach. The water was so warm in the lake though that he ventured out butt deep.

 "Hey guys, this is SO much warmer than the ocean."

We ended the day by grilling some hot dogs on the boat and munching on some watermelon and chips. It was a perfect end to a beautiful boating day!

Dad and Slimes were begging Mom to buy a boat of our own:)