The other white Christmas

Christmas came and went and with Grandma still here visiting and Chris on vacation,  we decided to make the most of our holiday by going to the beach!  I still can't believe that we live so close to so many amazing beaches.  The weather was warm and sunny and I felt a bit overdressed in jeans and long sleeves (cue the eye roll from my friends and family partaking in traditional winter).  Since it was so warm, we undressed the boys down to their diapers so they could wade in the waves. They loved the feeling of their feet sinking into the sand as the waves rolled in and the feeling of the water pulling on their tiny feet as the waves rolled out.

Grandma was great and building sand castles and sculpting characters into the sand for the boys to guess (like we used to do when we were little).  Brady and Brody were less interested in construction and more interested in destruction.  They knocked down every sand structure almost as fast as it was erected.  

The beach really is the best place for kids and dogs.  It has wide open space, beautiful sparkly (COLD!) water, lots to see, and is relatively uncrowded, basically all the things that I want in a little daytime adventure.  The only imperfect thing is that the sun is always behind my photo subjects making shooting at the Pacific Ocean during the day very difficult (cue the second eye roll).  But, since that is my only complaint, I will keep quite!