School Starts

Today is the first day of school!  Robbie started high school, which means he also started seminary nice and early at 5:45 am. 

Thomas and Lydia also started 2nd and 5th grade.  Everyone is beginning at a new school this year.

lined up and waiting for teachers

off they go

Summer Happenings

Our law school friends from Texas, the Fabelas, came to California for a softball tournament.  We haven't seen them since graduation, so it was fun to catch up with them and watch Kaiya play.  Robbie and Kaiya were born one week apart after the first year of law school.

Tom keeps playing basketball.  He loves to play every week!

Robbie and I went on a youth trip to the Newport Beach Temple.

Lydia started sewing her first quilt...she loves pineapples!

We also bought a pool table!  Kids are excited to get better at playing.

Kids and I went on a beach trip to the tide pools at Crystal Cove.

sea anemone

We stopped at In-n-Out on the way home.

 We also finished the puzzle I picked out in New York.

 

Big Bear

 I had the opportunity to go to Big Bear with the YW for an overnighter trip.  We spent the first day at Sky Park, which had axe throwing

archery

and a super fun zipline

The next day we rented kayaks.  Here I am with a few of the other leaders.

It was fun to get to know others in YW and our new ward better.

California Science Center

 We visited the California Science Center a few weeks ago.  We love seeing the Endeavour there.  They have a new exhibit planned for it where it will be displayed with its booster vertically.  It'll be pretty awesome when it's done.

We also wanted to see the Art of the Brick exhibit.  Nathan Sawaya creates art with Lego bricks.  He had a whole animal display section.

He also recreates famous cultural artifacts and fine art from around the world with Lego bricks.

He had a quote displayed talking about how kids learn through play and why not teach them about art through Lego.