2014 California Beach Trip

The year before Gavin was born, Jared's family started a tradition of spending a week at the beach in California together!  As I started looking through pictures of this years trip, I became nostalgic and began looking back at all the previous trips and reminiscing about how our own little family has evolved over the years, and thinking of our new little guy that will be joining us soon!

August 2009

Besides the beach we also spent a day at Disneyland.

Everything seemed smaller since I last went when I was six.

August 2010

Gavin's first road trip and first trip to California

August 2011

Still loving Mission Beach

June 2012

I couldn't find a picture from this year

with the three of us together, so you get two!

May 2013

This year we didn't do the beach house,

but instead Gavin got to take his first trip to Disneyland

And now for pictures of this year's trip.  This year we went near Long Beach instead of staying at Mission Beach as we have in the past.  The beach house was huge, and as usual we had a great time relaxing at the beach and hanging out together.

May 2014

We returned home with quite the collection of seashells!

Touching the ocean our first day in California

This beach had some pretty powerful waves.

Gavin running away before he gets pulled in again

Jared brought some of his planes down to fly at the beach

As well as his paraglider - Kiting at the beach

Although the beach waves were a bit intimidating for Gavin,

there was a wave-free bay nearby that the kids loved playing at

Playing with cousins at the bay

Digging in the sand with Grandpa

And hanging out with Grandma!

Enjoying some yummy ice cream!

And gooey s'mores! 

Beautiful sunset from the roof of the beach house we stayed at.

Jared & Gavin camped out on the roof a couple of the nights we were there

I had fun boogie boarding...

although I'm not sure how much the baby in my belly liked it!

Our friends Alex and Lani were also on a trip to California the same time as us, and were able to spend a

few nights with us at the beach house!  Gavin sure had fun playing with Eve at the Beach!

It was great just having a full week to hang out and relax with everyone!  Originally Jared wasn't planning on taking the full week off, since he had recently started working at Summit Engineering.  But when he mentioned the trip to his boss Mike, and asked for a few days off, Mike's reply was that of course Jared had to take the full week off, and to have a fun trip!  We definitely did have a fun and relaxing trip with family!