God's gifts from the beach
We were blessed to take a family vacation to Southern California. I returned to my roots and my kids saw where I came from -- through both the beautiful family tree and the physical locations. Because I have a weeks' worth of vacation photos, I'll start with just the first half of our trip... From right before we left... - Giving Abel a hair cut - Adrianna playing store with me (using an idea one of her math take-home papers) - Adrianna doing her missed school work outdoors, and Abel playing with the math manipulatives, too, while I madly packed for the trip - Fun times on the airplane ... Adrianna designing with pipe cleaners ...Scott and Abel hanging out ... Adrianna doing water color paintings - The blessing of staying with my friend Ashley (who I've known since Kindergarten) and her husband Kevin at their family's beach house -- the very one I visited with her as a kid - Abel finally getting to see what the beach is, after telling us he wanted "to ...