Aquarium of the Pacific

My kids love the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. Right now they are having free Friday shark nights, so I had to take my kids. I thought the whole aquarium was going to be open, but it is only the touch pool and the shark tank. I was a little disappointed when I found out, but we still had a great time. We went with Grandma Shelly, Aunt Danielle and her kids out to dinner before and then met up with Aunt Stacy, Uncle Scott and Brock at the Aquarium.

Carson, Sadie and Grandma trying to touch a shark.

Ellie, Hunter, Blake, and Logan touching the sharks.

Here everyone is looking at the large sharks like the hammer head, and swordfish shark.

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Blake on top of the shark.

Logan loved, loved, loved the aquarium. He loved looking at the sharks, but he really loved touching the rays and sharks!

One of the big sharks that you don't touch.

Logan, Aunt Stacy, and Brock touching a Ray.

Logan in heaven touching the sharks and getting all wet!

Sadie was on her own agenda and loved running away from mom and dad.

Logan and Blake wearing their matching shark shirts.

I tried to get a picture of all the kids together, but that didn't work.

We had so much fun at the aquarium. The kids ran around with their cousins got nice and wet, but the best part was it was free.

Nature Center

This afternoon the boys went over to their friends house to play, so I took Sadie to the nature center by our house.

Sadie had fun running around, or running away from me, and looking at the birds.

Park

I got a new camera, so I had to try it out. I took the kids to the park to play and so I could play with my new camera.

Sadie on the slide.

Logan and Sadie love playing in the sand together, but also like to throw it at each other.

Blake was wanting me to take pictures of him. He would pose for me or call me over to take pictures of him doing activities. Blake wanted me to take a picture of him hanging upside down.

The many poses of Blake.

It is fun watching Sadie at the park, and notice how much she has grown up. She can climb all the ladders, and loves going down the slides.

Logan loves throwing sand!

Logan wouldn't let me take pictures of him so I had to surprise him as he went down the slide.

Newport Beach

My cousin Marissa came down to visit for the week. She loves the beach and week almost everyday that she was here. So today we went down to Newport Beach for the day. Yes I know it is January, but it was the most beautiful and best beach day ever! We have been having very cold weather, but this week it warmed up and it was a perfect day at the beach. Here is Blake in the water.

Logan and Blake.

Sadie

Sadie falling down in the water and not too happy about that.

Logan jumping over the waves.

Logan showing me a shell that he found.

Enjoying digging in the sand.

We sat by the jetty and had fun looking in all the rocks.

We saw sea urchins, and even some starfish.

Grandma and Grandpa in their beach apparel. As you can tell they are not beach people.

Sadie exploring the sand.

Logan still loves to rub his head in the sand.

The kids playing in the water. What a beautiful day!

Blake swimming in the water.

Marissa chasing Logan.

Sadie digging a hole.

After the beach we went to Marissa favorite restaurant the Crab Shack for dinner. They only serve seafood, which was bad for the half of us who hate seafood. Then we went and got Balboa bars and walked on the pier. Grandma pushed the kids in her wagon, Sadie and Logan love that wagon.

Blake with his Balboa ice cream bar. Yummy!

Rich and I on the pier. I tried to make sure we got a picture together since we never take pictures with each other. It was a awesome day at the beach today, very fun and relaxing.