Ahh, the beach...

Ella's beard

  Hmm... Good stuff

The Grandkids

Ella loves her cousin Anna

Cousin Owen and Princess Ella 

Crazy Face!

Just like the rest of you, Brennan, Ella, and I went on a family vacation.  Every year, the Swensen family heads down to Newport Beach, California.  We go down for 2 weeks and get to enjoy relaxing, reading a good novel, the water, soft serve, strolling down the boardwalk, and Charlie's Chili.  We get a little piece of heaven for 2 weeks!  It was a lot of fun having Ella there.  It is very different having a child, but we had a ton of fun.  Ella loved the sand from the start.  She is very tactile and so feeling the texture of the sand must have made her day.  She also didn't mind having her face in the sand.  When it came to the water, it was a different story... She did not like it.  Whenever Bren or I tried to put her feet in the water she would lift them up.  It was a very funny site.  When we made her stay in the water she just cried.  It must have been the cold water.  Brennan had a great trip.  We bought him his 4th and 5th surfboard (one is a softy, the other is a fish tale)  The waves were BIG the first week and part of the second so, Brennan got to play on his new boards.  Needless to say it's like a little kid in a candy store.  I enjoyed running in the morning, a great book, and some of my own shopping (H&M).  We had a lot of fun with my family and we are so grateful that we get to go each year.  Enjoy the pictures.