We lucked out with another nice day at the beach

We headed down to Ventura Beach, picked up lunch at IN & OUT, and hit the beach. It was a nice day, not as warm as it has been but still for February, you can not beat it. Kyle played in the sand, we threw the football, had lunch, and relaxed. Very nice. We then decided to stop by Debi's sister's house on the way home. It was dinner time so we took them out to dinner and had a nice evening.

When we arrived home we watched the Basketball Allstar show off night and it was amazing. Kyle didn't want to go to bed when Heather put him down so, he came back down and sat with us when mom wasn't there to stop him. I think that was the first time he opened his bedroom door by himself. They are in trouble now. He wanted to stay up with the big boys.

We missed having TJ down so Debi baked some cookies for James to take back up for TJ. James has senior fever, he is ready to be done with school. He came down for a few days to get away from school.

Another pretty day at the beach in February

Kyle loves to build things and then tear them down!

We decided to run down to the beach as it was 75 degrees, pure sun, and a lite breeze.

We took the dogs, flew the kite, threw rocks in the ocean, dug in the sand, relaxed, and even saw some pirate ships out taping another movie shooting canons at each other. Video to come.

Kayaking in Malibu with the Dolphins

Here come the dolphins up the coast and they stopped by to say hi on their journey. Kyle calls them whales. He likes fishies.

Kayaking Malibu with the Dolphins

January 19th was a beautiful day so we decided we could not waste it and borrowed a couple of Kayaks from some friends and headed down to Malibu pier. I helped Heather and Ben and Kyle get out and they got hit my a small wave. Heather took the brunt of it but they straightened out and headed out to see. Then I pulled up my kayak which is a little too small for me due to my abundance of self. I waited for the sets to come through and climbed on. I paddled twice and fell over. Luckily the wave was on the way out and and it was only 2 feet deep. I climbed right back on and headed out to sea. Debi missed my graceful bail out and recovery and caught me on film as I remounted and headed out to catch Heather and Ben. If you notice, Kyle did not want to be on that kayak. He settled down and enjoyed the ride once he was out there. While we were out a pod of about 10 dolphins came by in pairs. They would go under the water about the time they were with in 20 or so feet of the kayaks and either go right under us or to one side and resurface about 50 feet past us. I only had my small digital camera with me and tried to not tip over while taking some pictures. I posted the best shot I had of a pair coming up just behind and off the side of Heather. Kyle calls them Whales. He was only about 25 feet from them and got a great view of these magnificent mammals as they said hi and went on by up the coast.  We started to follow for a bit but I knew we would have a hard time keeping up so we returned to the pier and finish a cruise by the beach and rocks just of shore and then landed safely on shore. What a beautiful day and fortunate opportunity we had. Heather and Ben and Kyle went for a walk down the beach to the rocks and tide pools and played for a while and then came back and dug holes in the sand.