Surfin' USA...

For our first vaca this summer we were invited down to California to hit up Newport Beach with my dad and step mom.  We flew down to Las Vegas first [Holy Hot!] and spent some time with my mom and hangin out poolside [fabulous].  Well come to find out, my parental units have been renting an apartment right on the beach since LAST FALL [hellooooo, why is this the first i'm hearing of it?! Come to think of it, they had been going down to So Cal more often than usual, but still!] So I do plan on taking advantage of this again with mi familia hopefully in the near future.  It was such a blast being on the beach and just being able to walk/ride bikes everywhere, swim in the cold ocean water and just relax.  But as all great vacations, it came to an end too soon.  We drove back to Vegas in a packed car, just to get home and get back in the car and drive out to Lake Mead and make a last minute boating/tubing trip.  I'm not sure James really understood what my "lake up-bringing" was really like.  It was so hot, that we didn't even take towels, because 5 mins. after you got out, you were completely dry.  When the boat is moving its like a blow-dryer right to the face.  We made it home safely and just in time for me to put a few hours in at work! [oh yay...back to work...]

Look at these DONUTS!

Matthew, Mason, Dalton and James

Mason and his modeling face

Look at all of those surfers!

He was being cute and trying to warm me up, but it wasn't happening, the water was way to chilly!

For some reason, he kinda reminds me of James Bond

Trying to catch some sea critters. We ended up with 3 little crabs, 2 hermit crabs and a star fish, which I made the little boys put back. I won't be having any star fishies dying on my watch.

My cutie surfer dude!

shredin'

I was sort of a pansie and had to wear this top to keep me warm.

Sister from the same Mister

Ok I'm officially guilty of putting my blog on the back burner.  But I'm making a pledge with all of you as my witness that I from this point on, will not let such a long time pass me by without writing in the blog.  Well the other weekend my dad and step mom and my older sister [along with my adorable nieces] came up to Idaho and it tuned into a Crowley Clan Gathering.  It was fun and a little crazy.  For the rest of the weekend my sister and kids stayed with James and I [talk about a packed apartment] but it was all so fun.  We decided on Sunday after church to take these city girls out into "the wilderness" [word choice, compliments of Kimber] and we drove up to Mesa Falls.  The girls wanted to see wild animals, instead we went into a little lodge just above the falls into an animal skins room.  There were tons of furs from bears and wolves and weasels of every kind and the list just goes on and on.  The little girls were worried that the small animals had been killed, we just told them, "they died of old age".  But the water falls were BEAUTIFUL.  Well on Monday evening we took Paige and the girls to the airport to go home, but they had a two hour delay.  So while an hour into the new Harry Potter movie, we got the phone call that Presli [the youngest] had fallen and was now in the ER because she needed stitches.  So after a long night in the ER, missing their flight, having to stay 4 more days in Rexburg, they FINALLY made it home.