Youth Group Reunion

Today I met up with 2 of my oldest friends (and not in terms of age :o) )! My friend Julie and her family were vacationing in OC and my friend Catherine and her family came for the day. We all met up for a day on the beach with all the kids! Julie, Catherine and I have been friends for as long as I can remember - probably since we've been babies! Our grandmothers were all very close friends and we grew up together going to the same church. When we were older, we spent our middle school years and high school years torturing our youth group leaders! We have alot of special memories!

Today was the first time we were all together as parents with our kids - Catherine has a new baby - just 9 months old! What a fun day!

Catherine's husband, Mark, was also able to join us - something we were all quite grateful for. You see, he LOVES to build sand castles and play in the sand! He is an excellent babysitter and keeps the kids completely spellbound by his love for the sand! His activities are usually several hours long! :o)

This is the start of the project....

And here is the finished product!
After the beach we all showered and met up on the boardwalk for some rides! Jacob, Allison and Daulton (Julie's oldest) had a blast! The boys were quite silly being boys!