maybe it’s the desert heat, maybe it’s just that i love california, but i find myself daydreaming about cali today.

i love how “two” she looks here. just focused on exploring and having fun, with no concern for what the rest of us were doing.


poor harrison, got ran over by a beach tractor.

i’m not sure she could be any happier. me either.

well, i don’t know, this picture makes me happier than anything. two peas in a pod. part of me wishes i knew what they were talking about, the other part is happy to let them have each other without my input. i just don’t know when my first two babies grew up? i know, they have an awful lot of growing left to do but when i still think of them as my babies, they certainly look well on their way here.

this shot is precious in so many ways. gabe looks so much like his dad when he was the same age. i just wish i would have noticed this picture in time to show my mother-in-law. she would have loved to see her baby boy in that face.

this guy was fierce. in the water, out of the water, running down the sidewalk, back in the water, back out of the water, back down the sidewalk…over and over again. not sure what he was training for but i felt like i was close to needing resuscitation just witnessing this.

our “secret” spot.

for the life of me, i can’t think of it but this reminds me of a book. it’ll haunt me until i figure it out.

this makes me think of Where the Wild Things Are. not necessarily for obvious reasons, but it does.

the ocean just jumped up and got me all wet.