California!

In July, we got to spend a week in Newport Beach, California, with my family. Poor Bryson was sick the whole time we were gone, but we still made lots of fun memories. The first day there we went to Sea World. Grandpa and Eleyna were a cute pair-they chased seagulls, saw lots of fish and went to the Shamu show and did the "Shamu splash". (We did all of that too.) This picture was taken at the tide pools with an obliging starfish.Eleyna LOVED the beach! Grandma and Grandpa loved watching Eleyna at the beach. :)The girls! Eleyna had a blast playing in the sand with the toys her daddy bought her. (Since we don't really have any beaches here in Utah I'm not sure if Bry really thought that one through. Still, I think it is very cute he wanted her to have sand toys to play with at the beach.)


Hunter spent most of his time at the beach under the umbrella in the shade, looking handsome. It was a workout pushing him through the sand in his wheelchair! Good thing my biceps are so huge-not!
There were several pools at the hotel we stayed at. We made good use of them.
One night we went to grab some take-out for dinner. We sat outside of the restaurant to wait for our food. Eleyna kept running away from us in to the restaurant and playing peek-a-boo around the door. She's so cute and fun! There was a pond with enormous goldfish at our hotel and Eleyna was in love with it. She is totally fascinated by fish. Grandpa and her walked down there a couple of times to say hi to the fishies.

We had such a great time on this vacation. I feel so lucky to have parents who are willing and able to make trips like this happen. Hunter was a trooper and was the only one who didn't get sick on the trip or in the weeks that followed. (A tender mercy indeed.) Family is the best.