Adventures before the rain

It's been raining non-stop for 2 days, and isn't supposed to let up until Friday. We knew the rain was coming, so we made sure we took advantage of the nice weather this past weekend and went on some outdoor adventures.

On Saturday we headed to our backyard and took a hike in "our" canyon for the 1st time. It was a lot of fun, except Jayden was exhausted so he whined for most of the hike and ended up passing out almost 2 hrs before his normal nap time. We hope to do this more often, except I was a little freaked out by all the coyote tracks we saw.


Checking out our house from the bottom of the canyon


There were coyote tracks everywhere


Hiking our canyon

On Sunday we took Julie and Jayden to Torrey Pines. We were planning on taking the kids on another hike, but the parking lot was full and it was packed, so we just took the kids to the beach. It was the 1st time any of us had been there and we had a blast. The entire beach is covered with these amazing smooth rocks and the kids loved throwing them and building stuff with them.


Drumming


Dancing on Daddy's feet


Jayden driving with his rock "car" in the sand...this kid will make anything into a car


J & J hard at work making a rock choo choo train


Running


King of the mountain


Silly kids crawling in the sand



Running through the Daddy tunnel


Having a snack on the way home from the beach...I can't believe how old he looks here!

Monday was one of the coolest days we've had in a LONG time. We drove to Laguna (in the rain) and met up with Merrel, Jeremy's "big brother" from when he was a little boy. We had hung out with Merrel's son Jordan a few times, but this was the 1st time Jeremy had seen Merrel since Jer was a kid. It was so moving to finally meet this man after hearing so much about him, and I loved just sitting back and watching the two of them interacting...what a special gift to be able to reconnect with someone that was such an important part of jer's childhood (thank you facebook!!!!). Jayden had a great time playing with Jordan's 2 kids and was not a happy camper when it was time to go. He kept saying "no home, more play Hasha toys" over and over again. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures =(

The rain is supposed to stop on Friday, so hopefully we'll be able to get out and go on more adventures this weekend!