Favorite Beach Pictures

Since I'm catching up on happenings with us, I thought I'd post some of my favorite beach pictures. I was going through all these recently and a few definitely stand out! We love going to the beach when we're in California. It's much easier now that we don't usually do a day trip from Richard's Mom's house that entails a 2 hour car ride in traffic just to spend an hour or so on the sand. We usually stop for the night at Laguna Beach (my favorite!) or stop on our way to or from somewhere else, such as visiting with the Michaelis Family in Encinitas or Aunts Monica and Emily in Santa Monica (we love you!).

These first ones are from September 2011. We went to dog-friendly Huntington Beach. Daniel stayed in the backpack because there are a LOT of dogs on this beach! But Walnut loves the running around even if he does have to stay on a leash. We just have to watch that he doesn't drink the saltwater!

These next ones are from February 2012 at Laguna Beach. They speak for themselves!

I already put some pictures from out last trip to California in May 2012 in the first blog post. Here are a couple more that I like. Had to add one of Linda surfing for the first time! She really did hang ten....for about 5 seconds! Pretty good for the first time out. 

In Santa Monica Beach we met Aunts Emily and Monica at the only restaurant actually ON the beach, "Back on the Beach," owned by our cousin Jim and his partner. Neither Linda nor I had met Jim before, so it was wonderful to finally do so! And the food was DEEEEEElicious!