Lucas's Room

Dear Grandpa and Grandma in Idaho,

All the pictures I wanted to send of my new room wouldn't go through on your email so Mom said she would post them here.

First up I had Mom take a picture of me pretending to play Legos so you could "see how I look when I really play Legos in my room".

My dresser, where I keep all my Lego creations until Mom makes me dust and then I have to decide which ones I REALLY want to keep. It is always a very hard decision since they are all my favorite.


Mom here: I love this poster Lucas drew. The whole family plus "Slader and Rob" (pro-surfers) and a "wale" caught a wave together.
This is my flame poster.

And this is the view I have when I lay down on my bed.
I can't wait until I can give you a tour in person!

Love, Lucas

P.S. When you come you can watch me do this in person too...

Last night I had to stop making dinner and get a video of Mia playing cowboy with a rather pesky sidekick...

Camping

We had reservations to camp earlier this week at Doheny State Beach but the forecast was for rain. Since "we" have been very anxious to try out our new surfing camper, this was bad news indeed. On a whim, Nathan ran down to the local campground around 4:30 Thursday evening to see if there was any availability. At that exact moment one site came available so he scooped it up. A hour or so later we were munching on our In-and-Out burger ocean side, watching the kids get dirty. Mia and I drove the 4 miles or so back to our soft, clean beds each night. It really was a great little set up! I had a hard time narrowing down pictures so I didn't.MMM...this looks eatable!

Very pleased that she was getting to not only drink pop but also getting to use a big girl cup.

Jill and I watched the sun set together. We waited for the green flash but it wasn't to be.

Breakfast burritos in a cloud of camp smoke.

Riding the beach cruiser seemed like a good idea at first.

After two successful nights, we decided to venture forth and head to Doheny regardless of the impending 60% chance of rain.

Yes, Alan the global warming thing is once again causing our ocean to slant toward Mexico.

60% chance of rain turned out to actually be a mini hurricane or so it seemed when it came ashore sometime the middle of the night. Somehow everything stayed intact and we stayed dry.

Hot cereal to warm us up!

Oh gravy. So many things I could say.

Let's just say that although we woke to beautiful weather and got to play on the beach for a few hours, it eventually started raining again and we picked up and headed for home.