Californian Thanksgiving!

We went to California for Thanksgiving this year. I was the photographer for a wedding of some friends of Darby's parents. It worked out perfect for us because we had a fun vacation and I made some money. We stayed at Darby's parents home. We LOVE the Richards family and miss them so much. They were such great hosts and we cannot thank them enough. We had so much fun, I seriously miss it everyday. Alexander and Lilly played non stop- and because of that took awesome naps so Darby and I could play non stop! Here are the kids playing piano. They thought that was pretty great.

* you can see here that Al bumped his eye on the chair. Poor little dude.

Taylor was joining in with the drums!

We went to the beach a couple days. They live just a few minutes so it was fun to go for an afternoon. This beach is called 'Baby beach' because there are no waves and they imported the soft sand. The first day we went, both babies headed strait for the water and Al learned his lesson very quickly...it was sooo cold!

He was not a happy camper

But he loved the sand. Seriously he ate handful after handful. At first I thought he would learn his lesson, so we just let him do it, but then he didn't stop. Don't worry, he pooped it all out the next day.

Lilly was so happy and couldn't get enough of the water

He was just content in the little mound Taylor built for him.

See? Literally mouthfuls!

I loved watching Al play in the sand. Its so fun seeing him do 'firsts.' I loved the beach and the sunshine.

The Richards have a pool and a hottub, so we spent a lot of time out there. The babies loved it. Lilly is a pro-swimmer and can pretty much swim all by herself. 

They loved Spot.

Lilly going under

Al loved kicking around in the floatey

This was an enormous spider thing that George found outside. You can't really see it very well, but it looked like a crab. 

We didn't take very many pictures of our fantastic, yet unconventional Thanksgiving holiday. We spent a lot of time eating, watching "Duck Dynasty," playing Canasta, and just hanging out. The Richards are the nicest people and we can't wait to go back. The wedding turned out great and I am really happy with the pictures.