The Beach

The first full Day in California we went to the beach. Along with all the other people in the state! There are a lot of people...everywhere you look, drive, are. That is always hard for this country girl to get used to.
We went to Huntington Beach. The sand and water were beautiful. The water was cold but that did not stop the kids. They invented a game where they would stand at the water's edge and as the wave came in they would run from it. Pretty original.....at least they thought so.
Dad and Daniel buried Harmony and then Daniel got buried "first, after Harmony." Caleb liked playing baseball with Dad and Mom. Kelly got hit in the head with a plastic shovel by a little3 year old, german girl (who thought she was hilarious, so did me and the little girl's mom.)
Eva would crawl a few feet and lick the sand, crawl a few more feet and lick the sand. We let her crawl to the waters edge as a wave came in and then she screamed from the cold. I was comforting and holding her and looked up to see a life guard running into the water to rescue someone. He got out about waist deep look around and came back in. I think he was responding to Eva's blood curdling scream but didn't know where it came from. I didn't have the guts to tell him it was my sadistic game of "watch the baby react to the freezing cold water."

The Newman Family went to California for Spring Break. We had a great time! It was warm and wonderful! This first collage is the stops we made on the way down. We stopped at the St. George Temple visitor's center, where we had heard (from LaNae Call's blog) that there was a great scultpure exhibit at the visitor's center. We got there 5 mins. before closing and begged them to let us see the sculptures. They were very incredible. The sculpture is Angela Johnson (I think) she used to be an opera singer and then one day took up sculpting for the heck of it, and found that she had a talent for it. (Where was I that talent day in Pre-mortality?).
We also stopped in the ghost town of Calico. Not as impressive. But it was fun to get out of the car and play around.

April is Birthday Month

Eva's birthday is today! April 6th, 1 year old today!

Daniel's birthday is Aril 21st, he will be 5.

Harmony's birthday is April 17th, she will be 6.

Soccer Season is starting!
Daniel and Harmony are playing this spring season. Caleb said he wanted to but only for the treats. We told him we would bring him treats to all the games if he would practice with the family at home.

We have been practicing on the few days that it has been warm enough to. We play boys against girls. So far it is 1 to 1. (Good thing the girls have Harmony or we wouldn't stand a chance!). Daniel waffles between teams, although that has less to do with gender confusion than who will let him have the ball more.

Harmony was actually recruited for her soccer team this season by one of the other dads. That was pretty cool.

Kelly will be Daniel's coach.

Fun times!

Eva is growing up

Eva is learning to pull herself up to everything. She thinks she is pretty cool when she does this, she has a big smiles, and laughs and bounces. The problem is she doesn't quite know how to get down, once she is up.











When I put her down for a nap, she immedialtley pops back up, getting herself stuck, until I come in to cuddle her and then lay her back down. The first day we did this routine, I had to lay her down 5 times! (Who is really in charge there?)

The kids have been helping to teach her to get down. They will pry her hands off of whatever she holding onto and then let her fall to her bum. Luckily she laughs her head off when they do it (the diapers are great padding). She is getting to the point now where she has tried this for herself, she doesn't laugh when she does it her self, but she does get this look of amazement that she did it.