Santa Barbara

Saturday the family piled in two cars and drove up to Santa Barbara for the day. We visited an old family friend and stopped at the beach. It was an incredibly beautiful day filled with the closeness of family, the sweetness of friendships, and the bittersweet sorrow of goodbyes…surrounded and enveloped in God’s creation which shouts “Glory!” when we have no words.

The boys enjoying the collection of stuffed animals and the stairs! Sweet loves! Mommy caught him up for a hug. Ha! What a grin! What a face! Jerome’s set up with ALL of the toys! He wanted to SEE the picture! He’s so affectionate. Under the avocado trees that his Daddy used to harvest from. Daddy IN the avocado tree playing hide-and-go-seek with Jerome. Ta-Da! candids are fun ;-) He asked me to take his picture and posed like this. Anna being a good Auntie :-) Swinging! He’s learning to tie his new size ONE shoes! The beach! Even though he had Daddy, that was too close for Ian’s comfort. Jerome was happy at the edge of the waves. Seth seems to be sizing up the waves, and Jerome is diggin in! pelicans This is when I handed Peter the camera while he went with the big boys by the ocean and I stayed with Ian further back. He was trying to capture the foggy haze, but this looks clearer than it was. candid capture. The sun was dazzeling. He’s digging in spite of the waves washing through. Seth in the ocean and bathed in sunlight. There you can see the fog rolling in, and Seth RUNNING back and forth along the beach. He would run along the edge of a wave as it receded and then another one would chase him back toward shore. He was absolutely careless and free! Seth plopped down in a wave for a rest, and to feel the water more without going deeper. Seth’s comments when he saw this picture, “I was sitting backwards!” “There’s bubbles around my arms!” and “The ocean was moving in that picture!” Anna drove for us so Peter could study in the car. Thank you, precious Anna!

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One Response to “Santa Barbara”

GiGi Says:

Makes me miss you all so very much! Great pictures!!! There’s only one problem with your pictures…there aren’t enough of your beautiful self!! XOXOX love you lots!

October 3rd, 2008 at 3:23 pm

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