Beach!!

Finally, after almost the whole summer has gone, we made it to the beach! It was just an after dinner spontaneous event with no buggy-boarding or drenched swimsuits, but it was still a ton of fun!
We left around 7pm, I think, and drove to Stater Bros. where we purchased Ben & Jerry's ice cream. Yum! Then we drove down to Sunset Beach at sunset. (What a coincidence!) It was a little chilly down by the water, so I was glad for my jacket. We devoured our ice cream and then ran to the waves.
None of us had any bathing suits on, so we just rolled up our pants (or leggings) and enjoyed the cool sand. We raced the waves up the beach (we usually won), dashed across the sand in competitions, and jumped to our heart's content (with goofy poses too!).
My mom also had fun taking pictures of us as we gallivanted around.

Ice cream . . . !
 (From left to right: Jonathan-9, David-15, Molly-13, Annie-11)

Walking . . .

Eating . . .

Eating and posing . . .

More dramatic posing . . .

Racing . . .

Jumping . . . !

Landing with sand (and hair)  flying . . .

Jonathan  . . .

David . . .

Me . . . !

Annie . . .

David and I . . . 

                                     (David said to do a ballet pose-don't know what happened there!)

Father and son . . . (aka Dad and Jonathan)

And finally . . . cleaning up after a night of all the above!

I love the beach. Especially at night time when the sky is glowing orange and pink. I really enjoyed this last Friday night and look forward to the next beach day where we can actually get in the water!