Just a day at the beach.

While my camera uploads the pictures from today to my computer, I thought I would write about todays events. I took over 200 pictures, so you know it was definitely a fun day. First, I was up at 5 am. with Steve, I've done it this whole week to help encourage and support him. I actually found that I like it because I have time to relax before mayhem wakes up!
So this morning I'm awake, it's all good, Allie gets up, it's still good, then my ear starts to hurt again. This has been going on for a few days, the worst ear ache I've ever had. Even my jaw hurts. So I'm kind of in pain and Allie is getting mad about everything. She cried because she wanted her shoes on, because I gave her only one banana, and because she didn't want cereal (but because I don't speak the language of whineandcry I didn't catch on to that immediately). So I finally decide that I need to put ear drops in my ear and lay down (so the drop would drain into my ear). Trying to decide why Allie is so angry I give up and turn Caillou on for her. That made her happy for a minute. She was crawling on me and pushing her feet into my ribs when I finally decided to take my mom's advise and take her outside to play. Now she's getting mad at me because I'm walking around the house to get her clothes and shoes and grab my bible study to take with me outside. She wants me to pick her up but if I pick her up it takes twice as long to gather these things, and she's still mad. So I put her down and while I'm going through the clean clothes to find her something she dug her pretty little plastic shoe heel into the top of my foot so hard I almost cried. Finally I'm getting her changed and dressed and we head outside. Oh I forgot the sunscreen. Then I forgot her water. So I did have to come back we did get some peaceful play time outside...til she decided she needed to buckle the chair (it's got a buckle to help keep it closed) but Allie doesn't know how to latch buckle's yet and it just makes her mad that she can't buckle it. It made her mad when I did it for her, when I tried to help her and when I put my foot on the step next to her. I could not make this child happy! So I was getting pretty worn out, but still managing. We headed inside where she sat for another episode of Caillou and a peanut butter tortilla. Good, now she's calm, I'll go get on the computer. Thank God I did that! My friend Kathy was inviting anyone to join her to go the beach in Herriman for a swim. I told her I was up for it and made the arrangements.
So while I waited for Jordan to get home from school and Steve to get home from ZLB, I packed some snacks and our swimming stuff so that we would be ready to go as soon as Steve got home. Steve got home at about 2:00 and we left soon after. One quick pit stop to get gas and we at the beach within a half hour. It was better than I even expected. Pretty clean, small, easy to get to (although some would argue that), and our friends were there waiting. I was happy to see my friend Mandy with her husband and baby, they are such a cute family! Judah is not even 4 months old and is a very sweet baby. I made it just in time to see her first dip in the water, with the cutest dang swimsuit ever.





Allie had to be woken up from her nap to get out of the car and wasn't really ready to just dive into it, so I held her for a little bit and then started getting her changed into her swimsuit. Surprisingly after only about a half hour nap she wasn't cranky at all (boy was I shocked). I took her over to Ellie, who right away started to bring her buckets full of water to dump in the sand. Allie got into it pretty quick and Jordan was in the water with Pierce floating around in a little green tube they brought with them.




My friends didn't stay long but after they left, Jordan and Steve started making sand castles and digging holes to bury themselves in, while Allie braved the cold water up to her ankles and played with the bucket that my friend had left for her.








Steve buried Jordan and then started to dig his own hole (which sounds terrible all typed out). It took him a while, lets face it, it had to be much bigger of a hole than Jordan's. He got into the hole and realized it wasn't wide enough for his shoulders and had to get back out to widen it.




So when he finally fit in the hole we started to cover him up. I had to help because Jordan just couldn't get all that sand pushed fast enough. I'm not so sure that Steve was happy about me helping since I gave him 2 nice round mounds in the chest area...I was just giving him what he always wanted!




When Steve came out there, even with what had filled into the hole, there was still a big enough hole for Jordan to fit in to be buried again. So because he had laughed so hard about Steve's sand mounds I gave him some too, and Steve made him a mermaid. He was saying "NO! NO!" but laughing really hard so I know he thought it was funny! So a little more bur
We had so much fun out there, we'll definitely do it again.