Hoop Camp

The only thing Shane wanted to do this summer was basketball camp.  It's the one camp he loves and what I don't understand is how they make basketball fun for 7 hours a day, 5 days straight.  Shane wants to get there 30 mins early just so he can shoot around.  There were 3 individual competitions and Shane won 2 of the 3 for the entire camp.  Then his team won the camp tournament.  Proud of this boy, he has so much natural talent.

Life Camp

Shane has been going to Life Camp, doing earrands with his mom.  He's learned how to slide my credit card and forge my name when paying, push a big shopping cart through Costco, where the cheese cutter is in the kitchen and fold laundry.  I think he'd rather go back to school

Art school

One of Hailey's Birthday presents was art  camp.  She went 4 days this summer and loved every second, begging me to put her in the all day camp!  She is so proud of her pictures and you can see why.  Hailey would go everyday if she could.

Rollergirl

San Elijo

We got invited by the Agonias to join them camping at San Elijo.  We arrived late Friday night and set up camp in the dark.  There was talk of rain but we don’t believe in that stuff anymore

 

Guess what we woke up to at 6am, lighting, thunder and rain.  It was pretty awesome for the first 45 minutes, until the tent started to leak.

The rain went away shortly after we moved all our stuff back into the car. We had breakfast at Bull Tacos - inauthentic Mexican .  The greatest idea every, a taco shack inside the campground, 2 minute walk from our tent

The view from breakfast, it felt like Hawaii, wet and warm

Camp Store

Then another rain storm hit so we went bowling and out to lunch.  Don’t ask me why we had 3 tents in our car but we did and set them all up just in case it rained that night.   Looks like we had a party on our campsite, nope, just a family of 4 in those tents

A little afternoon dip before dinner

Amber and Kyle enjoying the sunset

Jesse taking photos with his iphone

We lucked out and the rain left for the rest of our stay

 

Hailey and Bella getting along

The next morning,  was totally worth braving the storm the 1st night

The kids loved riding down to the river mouth to swim

Caleb’s way of taking his sister’s boogie board to the river mouth

 

These kids played hard, this never happens in the car

Footgolf

After the kids saw pictures of Jesse and I playing footgolf, they wanted to go.  Everyday Hailey would say, “We going today?”. 

Jesse and I improved our score from last time and didn’t feel nearly as awkward this time.

He and I followed the rules this time and wore a collard shirt and argyle socks.  The kids loved playing

Getaway

8 months late but we finally got around to celebrating our 15th Anniversary.  Just 4 more months and we can celebrate again!  Jesse planned the whole trip and told me nothing, just what to pack for 3 days.  He said we would be local and that’s it.  I loved going along for the ride.  It was a weekend of firsts.  We showed up at the Hilton in Long Beach and took at Harbor Cruise

Then headed to the Queen Mary, which I have never been on.  We took a haunted and a historical tour.  Our tour guide Tony was so fired up and enthusiastic I could have listened to him all day.

Inside the boat where the 1st class passengers shop

I was trying to figure out with my hands how to hold up LB for Long Beach, it took some thinking…………

I sent Jesse to the Isolation Ward, I think I will put one of these at home!

We were 45 minutes late to dinner,  thanks to Tony but we had a great dinner at Sir Winston’s on the ship

Time for some Hydro biking though Naples.  They told us we didn’t have enough time to make a circle around the harbor and to just turn around at the bridge

Not going to happen, we chose not to listen

Jesse barely making it, I even had to duck

3.5 miles on the hydro bike –no problem

I haven’t felt this awkward in a long time.  We showed up to a golf course with tank tops and soccer balls and people were staring at us. 

I guess the place only opened up 4 months ago and they are not use to us Footgolfers.  Same rules as golf, just kick it.

A very unusual scene and loving it

Seems like it would be easy, but it ain’t

Jesse needed some help with his toe kicks

Paradise

They let us on the course  even though we didn’t have collard shirts and argyle socks like they suggest.  I loved that all the golfers were staring at us

A nice romantic Italian dinner in the LBC

I enjoyed every minute of our getaway.  There is nothing I rather do than spend time with Jesse