Casa de Fruita and Mission San Juan Bautista

Grandma Joe, myself and the kids went on a field trip to both places on Friday. We had a pretty good time. A lot of history their. It was a beautiful day of about 75 degrees and the sky was clear. I think the kids liked the train ride the best out of the whole day!
San Juan Bautista

My kids wanted to go to jail.

Missies trying to catch her first chicken!

OLD headstones in the cemetery and just some random scenery pics.


Kyle took a pic of me.


Old collection of ranch trucks.

Grandma Joe and kids! Yes Kyle slid down the whole rail.

True love...

Me and my mommy. We are hot!!

My cuties.

San Simeon Trip!

So our trip was wonderful. We camped at San Simeon State Park. It was good. The camping was different from what we are used to(Joel camps in areas where their is no other people and I camp in Fort Bragg!). But we made it work. The drive down their was super hot untill we hit HWY46 and then the marine layer kicked in!! I did not have to drive for the entire trip which was wonderful! For the first time in forever I actually got to relax and LOOK at the scenery. Imagine that!
The Hearst Castle as awesome. We were unable to go thru the tour because the dogs were in the car and it would have gotten to hot. So we just went thru the visitors center museum. I can tell you now that we are going back because I want to go through that house! Seeing the castle from Hwy 1 was so neat.
We also went to the beach a lot and the kids and dogs played. We walked around Cambria (I could so live their) and saw some really beautiful art. We also went and saw the Elephant Seals. They are blubber machines! On Sunday we went down to Morro Bay before we headed out and that was cool. We walked around and saw a ton of birds. The kids say that rock is just a giant bird perch!
After that we ate at a nice restaurant that overlooked the bay and the kids got to watch Pelicans, Harbor Seals, and fishing boats bringing in their catch. I think we all had a good time outside of the kids fighting and complaining about things. Why do kids do that? Thay complain the whole trip and then we go home and they say we had so much fun!!?? Anyways Joel fared well with the kids and he still called me on Monday night so that is a good sign....

Morro Bay power plant. Just thought it was cool.

They are standing next to a peice of rock that has fallen off of the huge rock!

Morro Rock.

Going home... We had the van packed to the hilt.

Do you see the ground squirrel next to the seal? He was their for the longest time eating something in the sand!!

Elephant seals.

Moonstoone Beach.

It is so true! You can take the girl out of the mountain but you can not take the mountain out of the girl!!

Hearst Castle from about 10 miles away!

I think this white dog was having fun.

Missy was making flags with Kyles socks!

Kyle with his mallow stick.

Kyle and Missy in the dog house portion of the tent.

At The Beach..and The San Jose Giants Game!

We went to Sand Dollar Beach yesterday. We had a great time. We saw three dolphins swimming in the surf, which was awesome. Also a sea lion swimming in the waves. My camera is way to slow to get a picture of them though but the kids loved it. It was actually a beautiful weekend here-it was one of the first clear weekends here since all of the California wildfires have started. My cousins in Mariposa are supposed to be evacuating due to the Telegraph fire but they are staying to try to protect their home. Please keep them and all of the people effected by these fires in your prayers.

Jazzy the greyhound..


Barry, Joel's friend. He is a dog walker and behaviorist.

We went to the San Jose Giants game during the heat wave!! We had a lot of fun. Small field, great family fun.