Beach Day

Some time after I had told Dad I could come out, he decided that it'd be a super good idea to fly Joy and the girls out the same weekend as an early surprise present for Mom's birthday. Joy flew in early Friday morning and we had planned to go to Mission Bay to spend the day on the Seados. Dana was going to sneak off to the airport to pick up Joy and meet us at the beach. Well, Mom was obviously unaware of all of the plans and so she had a signing to do at 8:30am (the time Joy landed). Easy enough, the plan changed so that we'd be all set up at the beach and have Joy waiting by time Mom came.

Oh my goodness. We distracted Mom with baby Aaron while Joy and the girls slipped around to the side. Mom looked up and didn't take it in at first, but as soon as she realized it... oh golly. She screamed so much. (A firetruck pulled up not more than 5 minutes later and I'm convinced they heard her and were wondering what emergency took place.)

We had a great time. The boys (meaning Ben and Josh) spent most of the time building in the sand. Josh apparently started making this amazing dragon that unfortunately collapsed before anyone could see how awesome it was. After that collapse, they turned the dragon into a big ramp for the little boys to drive their car on. This thing was pretty cool. There were tunnels, ramps, and even a truck jump. At the very end of the day, Josh spent his time on a giant truck ramp/jump. But try as he might, Roman's dinky little dump truck couldn't clear the jump. Sad day, but Josh did have fun doing it.

The kids had a great time filling up buckets with water and dumping the buckets on what Ben and Josh were working on. The poor babies were so cold, but hated being taken up to get wrapped up in a towel and warmed up. As soon as they stopped shaking, they'd beg to go back down and play. And of course they were let go so that they could join the rest of the little squirts.

We were a little more adventurous on the seados this time, and I think we have Josh to thank for that. I went out on one while Dana and Josh went out on the other. Dana was driving it and she doing stupid stuff on it that she doesn't usually do. In fact, she was jerking so much that TWICE she threw Josh off the back. HA! It was pretty much hilarious. But after watching Dana doing more zig-zags and donuts and stuff, I decided I could be more adventurous. I did more zig-zags, and donuts, and 360s. Okay, I didn't purposely do more 360s, those kind of just happened. And, unfortunately, one of the times that my seado did a 360, it threw me off and Josh was right there to see it. That was funny. I tried to hide what had just happen by popping right back on as soon as my head was back above the water, but also as soon as my head was back above water I heard Josh roaring with laughter. Even though it didn't hurt when I got thrown, I still wasn't in a hurry to have it happen again, so I was a little more careful. Granted, I was on my way back in when it happen, so it's not like I had too much time to be timid.

When it was time to go, Josh and I volunteered to take the seados back to help Dad load them on the trailer. Josh took his seado over and stopped. I was worried that it had run out of gas or stalled or broke in some other sort of way (it wouldn't be a day out on Mission Bay without something going wrong). I took my seado over and saw Josh picking up the hugest piece of seaweed I have ever seen. It was awesome. I really really wish I had somehow gotten a picture of it. You know that round ball part of a seaweed that you pop? The part that's attached to the leafy part? Yeah, that part that is usually no bigger than the size of a nickel was the size of Josh's head (and we all know that Josh has quite a large head :o)

After the trip to Mission Bay we were pretty lazy. Joy and the girls actually fell asleep on the couch and stayed asleep the rest of the night. But that's not a huge surprise because to get here, they had to be up at 3:00am and they are two hours ahead of us. So even though they fell asleep at 5:00, it felt like 7:00 to them, and they had been up forever without a nap.

Since Joy and the girls were asleep at Mom's house, I decided to go home with Kim and Ben. Roman and Isaac proposed that I come and have a sleepover with them. I went home and gave the boys a bath and helped get them ready for bed and then went out and watched a movie with Kim and Ben. Isaac is such a pillious. He came out of his room three times. The first time he walked out and said "I want to rub Mommy's back." But Kim and Ben sent him back right away. I guess it's not as cute after the fifth straight month of it. The second time he claimed he had to go to the bathroom. And the third time he didn't make it very far :o)

It was a very very good day, and the only other thing I have to say. It's in terms of advice. Don't watch movies with Kim! She talks the whole time and whines about parts that she doesn't get :o)