Funny story...
The last night I was with Bobby and Ginas kids Uncle Jeff decided to open a BIG bag of peanut m and m´s and I kid you not, Stacia ate about half the bag and Landon and Mili had their fair share too. Needless to say getting through bathtime and into bed was NOT easy. As the two older kids were running around naked and hiding in closets (and Mili following them naked even though she hadn´t taken a bath) I shut the door to the bathroom and left poor little Lauren in Bobby and Ginas bedroom. When I opened the door Lauren was just outside of it and had pulled all of Ginas undies on the floor....and was wearing one pair as a necklace! She wanted to be part of the running around so she crawled into the shower.
I did finally catch them all and get them dressed and in bed...and not too late!
Monday evening we all (Ed, Marie, Nathan, Jeff, Cindi, and Alexa) played a few rounds of Pit. Our flight was early the next morning. We both had a wonderful time, thank you mom and dad I know that we will cherish that time together.
Pictured here - Nathan, Alexa, Lauren, Traci, Billy, and Jack O'Neill
Janie Moysa, Nathan, Alexa and Terry Moysa (Traci's parents).
We spent Sunday evening at Ron and Shan Holst' s home. We had a great dinner. Alexa was tired and watch some movies, while the "adults" played the dice game.
Here is an attempt to get a picture of Alexa with the stage behind her. They didn't like me taking this picture.
Here is Alexa and I after the show in front of the ad for the show.
Alexa was anxious to get back down to the beach, it was perfect timing with Low tide around 11 am. Here you see Alexa and behind her is an injured elephant seal that had come ashore.
Someone from the institute was watching over it and eventually a rescue team from Laguna Beach came an hauled it off in a huge "dog carrier." I helped carry it up to the truck and it was quite heavy even with 4 people lifting the carrier.
After a quick shopping stop to get some beach clothes, we went to Salt Creek. It is a great surfing beach and has nice soft sand. In the picture below you may be able to see Alexa behind the surfer. She is chasing sea gulls.
Grandpa was trying hard to reproduce a picture he has of Jeff on the wall at home. I was surprised to find that I got pretty close with this shot of Alexa playing with the kelp floating in the water.
Here is the sand castle we built, even with abridge across the moat. We tried to fill the moat, but the water just kept sinking into the sand.
This is a gea picture of me and Alexa at Salt Creek, just before we left.
Alexa is standing at the entrance.
Cassandra Ginn (aunt Cassie) accompanied us as well. Then Nathan, Alexa, Marie, Cindi, and Ed. I borrowed a tie from dad for this event and boy did I get a lot of compliments from the Senior lady ushers (it was a "chick" magnet!)
We stopped on our way out to get a photo next to the "snack stand" mural. Pictured are Cindi, Alexa, Nathan, Ed, and Marie. 
Here she is struggling with Aunt Cindi. They had fun kicking water at each other and Alexa was trying to get Cindi as wet as she was.
When we discovered that the Oceanic Institute was closed, we drove down to North Beach. This beach is where I spent a lot of time in the water as a teenager with my friend Kenny Virgin. This is a sand crab in Alexas hand, they were all over the place and easy to catch. Alexa thought it was fun how they "hopped."
