Old Memories and New Memories

About once a year we take the journey back to my mother land... the land of Clovis CA. This June it was time for our trip!

 

 While staying with my parents we enjoyed naps in the shade of the backyard, a fabulous Fathers Day dinner WITH my dad, tractor rides, roasted smores over the fire pit and visited the local water park (named Clovis Lakes in my day!).

 

One of the great things about growing up in Clovis is it is just a couple hours from just about EVERYTHING! Like the Sequoia National Forest. It's where I grew up camping. Bry hadn't ever been there so we made sure to spend a day checking out the sites.

 

 We saw some HUGE trees

 

 And STOOD on some HUGE trees

 

Drove THROUGH some huge trees (I love that I have a picture from 25 years ago of me and my family in our big red suburban under this same tree!)

 

And WALKED through some huge trees



We also had a picnic

 

 Hiked with Grandma

 

 Found big rocks to climb

 

And ended our day with ice cream at the same little country store we went to years ago (Amy, remember when we accidentally left you at the campsite when we went for ice cream? :)

 
We did everything on my list of TO DO for the great land of Sequoias.



The second half of the trip was spent on the coast. We stay at my grandparent's home (both who have passed away). I love how full of memories that home is and I love that my kids are making their own memories there. Memories so different than my own. It's funny, I never knew how close their home was to so many awesome things!

 

Like the beach!  We spent many hours at the beach.  It's like a huge playground.

 



 We picked buckets of berries

 



 We played at the beach again (can you see the itty bitty crab?)

 

 (then we found bigger crabs)

 



 We learned to play with our toes

 



We played at the beach some more

 



We went to the aquarium

 





And played at the beach some more.

 



Pretty sure this is my favorite pic from the whole week!

 

And the best part was hanging with my family and these 2 all week! I love being with my parents and seeing my kids with my parents.

 

I was lucky enough to be raised and taught by them and I hope my kids can partake of their wisdom too. They're pretty darn awesome.