What a good looking group?

This was the closest I got to the beach last December when Adam and Heather were married in Los Angeles.

I am still alive, but I haven't seen the beach in over a year.

We had an "ocean" of leaves however

and Maddie is swimming in them.

When I was in Orem last month, Amanda let me borrow this picture of her as the "Mom" holding Isabel at the beach--remember that pose of Joy and Amanda? The comment Amanda made was "the baby doesn't look as happy and the Mom doesn't look as thin." I am so grateful to see that Amanda still has that happy "beach" face now that she is all grown up. We will have to keep taking Isabel to the beach with the hope that she will learn to love it too!

As the years passed you can see they are still enjoying the beach--this time they had increased in number as you can see Abigail in the background behind the amazing sand castle.

This is one of my favorite "beach" pictures of Joy and Amanda, because they look like they are loving the beach as much as I do! When I think of fun beach trips, I remember the one with Joy and Todd and Sarah and Matthew and Amanda and Sam when we spent a week in a beach house in northern California. Don't they all look happy?

The end of the trail and the setting of the sun on our perfect beach trip. Thank you Mike and Jeff and Linda and Joy for making my dream come true. I don't want to sound ungrateful or greedy, but when can we go again???

These next shots are of Jeff and Mike on the skimboards at El Matador. We saw some very fancy footwork and a few sudden stops from these past fifty good sports!

This amazing photo taken by Linda from up above, shows Joy and Mike and I on our great adventure clamboring over rocks along the surf from El Piscador to La Pietra and ending up at El Matador. Jeff and Linda were up at the top of the cliff recording our progress and Jeff was moving the car from El Piscador to El Matador for us. What a fun experience.

This shot of Mike and Jeff is looking toward the other pocket beach of La Pietra and then further south beyond that beach is our much loved El Matador.

Mike found this frisbee along the beach which provided some exciting "rescues" in the surf.