Welcome to my Town

I wanted to introduce you to the little beach town where we live, Huntington Beach.

It is actually NOT small, but the closer to the beach you are the more small-er-ish it feels.

I have noticed a couple things about Huntington Beach in our two year stay here so far...

1. LOTS of people have tatoos, and I am not talking just a small one on your ankle, I am talking Jesse James style... sleeves and all.


















2. EVERYBODY has a beach cruiser and rides around.

3. Huntington Beachians (Beachites?) are into their old, remodeled cars.

4. Huntington Beach LOVES beach volley ball.

5. Huntington Beach also goes by Surf City.

6. Huntington Beach LOVES Fourth of July.

Saturday, Tyson was the best husband and stayed home while the kids slept so I could go on a LONG bike ride with my sister in laws. I don't think it was the bike ride Brittany expected because we STOPPED a lot. Hey I needed to take these awesome pictures of the awesome houses for this post!

Keep in mind that ALL these houses are on the SAME street!

From July 10

Both Tyson and I agree that we could live in this house. This might be what our future home looks like... (not first home, but maybe second home...) Here's to dreamin.




Thank you for joining us for this installment of Welcome to My Town.

We the Kids

I think the pictures of this book are so fun, and is it to early for my kids to know the Preamble? Just preparing them for fifth grade.

We watched this too, cause it is just so catchy.



What a fun fourth. We didn't do ALL of our normal things, but we did the things we thought worked well with it being Sunday and all.

CHURCH in our Festive attire...


BBQ with the neighborhood...

FIREWORKS...




And after the kids were in bed, we watched the fireworks show from the pier on our front lawn.. no need for crowds, music etc... just a quiet relaxing show. Loved it! Makes me wonder why we walked down to the pier last year.

Curious Garden

This a fun new book we found about a little boy who finds an unlikely place to plant a garden. It is just too cute. and the little boy reminds me of Merrick. It might just be the hair...

We went to one of our favorite places, The Environmental Nature Center. We have been loads of times, but this was the first time with Brittany in tow!


Can you see the crayfish in the water? Better in the water than out, is what I always say...


Too bad Tyson doesn't feel the same way!
Poor little dude was so scared he wouldn't let go of the stick.

It was fun to walk around another garden that is also in a random place... just like the "Curious Garden".

Mole Music

We played all of our musical instruments. Sorry neighbors! I even pulled out my flute! They had never seen me play the flute before, and I think they liked it.


I love Merrick's face in these pictures. It might be disgust... I guess it didn't sound to good!

From July 10

Down to the Sea

with Mr. MaGee

So I like one book, and then I check out all the books written by that author. Chris Van Dusen has such fun books. The art is amazing, and the stories are fun. (He also wrote If I built a Car... that we read last Saturday!)

Today was Brooke's, my SIL, 17 birthday! Hooray!
We went to her Beach Bonfire Birthday Bash !(alliteration!)



It was pretty relaxing and fun to hang with Brittany and Brooke... and 20 other 17 year olds.