More Graduation Pictures

We've had on our to-do list for months to take these pictures.  We had a hard time finding balloons and then the balloons proved to just be a nuisance.  But we tried...

She wanted to pose like my senior picture :)

 

It's about time

It took us way to long to get a picture of us all together.

Today we all became members of Harvest OPC, which is an exciting day.  Alison and I were still members at Hope and the boys were members of Trinity, so it's nice to finally have us all in one place.

 

4th of July!

We joined some friends for a BBQ and watched a firework show! 

 

Just in case

 You need to hear the sound of the ocean and watch two boys play in the water.  It's a glorious thing.

This week

It was an exciting one!

Alison bought a car!!!

{Alison's in there...it's just hard to see with the reflection}

We celebrated with tacos ;). 

We are so proud of Alison's hard work to save up for the last few years to make this day happen.

We've made a summer bucket list and one of the items is to try a new coffee shop every week and rate them.  Downtown is full of different cafes and it's been fun trying them out.  This week we went to Camp Coffee and it has ranked supreme so far.  My coffee had roasted marshmallows on top!

Colin went to surf camp this week.  It's a good thing he already knows how to surf because there wasn't a lot of instructions going on, but he had a week of fun on the beach.

The Grant's drove through Oceanside and we were able to meet up with them at a park for a little bit.  Timmy quickly took to Colin and did not want to stop swinging with him.

Ben was hiking Mount Shasta and we worked on a Lego puzzle.

I love this sight:

Ultimately, Eli conquered the puzzle and I would say this was one of the most fun puzzles we've done.

 

Hiking Hot Springs Mountain

You know what the great thing is about having teens on summer break?  You can get up super early and go hike a mountain while they're sleeping in.

Hot Springs Mountian:

It was an easy 10 mile trail and we only saw one other hiker, which is just how we like it.