Our First Day at the Beach

Joey and Hannah had two two-week sessions of swimming lessons this summer. This was our first year doing swimming lessons through the city, and they were great. The kids started the summer saying that they didn't want to take swimming lessons. Then as soon as they started the lessons, they loved them.

The only downside to the swimming lessons was that they were every day for those four weeks (in the past, they were only M, W, F or T, Th), so we weren't able to do any of our regular summer activities like play out with friends, have friends over to our pool, or go to the beach. The kids have actually seemed to really enjoy our more laid back summer with mostly hanging around the house, playing together, and then heading over to lessons. I am surprised they didn't get more stir crazy.

So as wonderful as our summer has been, it seems a bit of a shame that we live in beautiful San Diego and haven't gone to the beach one time (although the older two kids went with my mom during Camp Nana). Thankfully we remedied that on Saturday. 

  "On your mark, get set, GO!"

They ran back and forth for a while.

Ellie really loves the beach, much more than the other kids at this age. She loves going into the water as long as I'm holding her hand.

My two beach girls! Hannah is a big fan of the beach too. She's my kid who loves to go the farthest into the water and jump over the bigger waves.