Our First Day at the Beach

After spending the morning at the aquarium we headed to the beach for the afternoon.  It was a beautiful day at the beach.  It was great to sit out in the sun watching the kids having fun together and the many dolphins that swam by throughout the day.

 

Grandpa and Jack enjoying some horseshoes.

Kaitlyn and Grandma relaxing together. 

Aubrey and Lindsey looking cute. 

 

Jack and Grandpa.

Beach Bum Logan.

 

Henry and Kaitlyn getting a little wet.

I like the row of Gwilliams in the background.



 

Two beach bums.

 

One of the crabs Mike and Logan found while they were snorkeling.

 

Jack, Ruby and Aubrey burying Grandpa's feet.

 

McKayla helping Conner out.

 

Brinley, Macy and Caroline.

 

Max, Tanner and Jack.

 

After the beach we headed to a park to BBQ hamburgers/hot dogs for dinner.

 

Logan and Parker.

Blake and Henry.

Monterey Bay Aquarium

For our first activity for our Gwilliam Family Trip we all headed to the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

 

Logan and his cousins Blake and Parker.

 

Eric and Henry checking out the sites at the aquarium.

 

Kaitlyn and Ruby.

 

Logan, Aubrey and Parker touching some bat rays.

 

Kaitlyn and McKayla.

McKayla and Ruby.

McKayla, Kaitlyn, Ruby and Aubrey.

 

Brinley, Aubrey, Tanner, Henry, Max, Jack and Ruby.

 

Gwilliam Family Trip

As the family started to arrive for our annual Gwilliam Family trip we had fun swimming.  Had to get a shot of Eric sporting his kids Mario Happy Meal hat.

 

 

McKayla and Kaitlyn trying to get cousin Henry to warm up to them.

He was trying to pretend they weren't even there.

 

Then we went to a Giant's game.

Here is Jack enjoying the game.

 

The seagulls couldn't wait for us to leave so they could eat the leftovers.

13 Year Old All-Stars

A few days before Logan left for Scout Camp we found out he made the 13 year old all-star team.  He missed the practices because of Scout Camp, but was able to make it back just in time for their 1st game.

We traveled to Fairfield for the games.  Logan's favorite part was stealing bases.  He takes huge leads off the bases and makes me way to nervous, but his all-star coaches like it and encouraged it so he had a great time and was very successful stealing lots of bases.

Logan wasn't happy that they lost their games, but it was a great experience for Logan and we were glad that they had the opportunity to play on the all-star team.

Girls Camp

Kaitlyn was excited to go to girls camp this year as a 5th year YCL (Youth Camp Leader).

One of the perks of being a YCL is the matching sweatshirts with their nicknames on it.  Instead of nicknames Kaitlyn and her friends put their favorite characters from books.  Kaitlyn and her YCL partner are showing the names they put on their sweatshirts.  Kaitlyn's was "Chase Jennings" and Taylor's was "Augustus Waters". 

On Monday morning all the girls meet at the church to pack up in the

buses and head up camp.  Before they leave the YCL's go to the

front of the gym and lead the girls in singing camp songs.

Kaitlyn chose to be a leader over the 4th year campers.

That meant she would be out of the main camp most of
the week backpacking and would give devotionals (spiritual lessons)
each night to her group of girls.

She was a little nervous about going, but had a great time!

She loved the hike, her leaders and the girls in her group.

 

 

 

 

 

 

They created a water slide at their camp.

They put a tarp on the rock to slide on while some of the girls
poured buckets of water on the tarp.

Kaitlyn said there were a ton of water snakes around their camp and in the water.

One day one of the girls asked if she could pick up one of the snakes.  The leaders said yes and then apparently as soon as he said it he had a bad feeling about it and ran over to the girls and grabbed it out of her hand.  He realized it was actually a rattle snake and killed it.  The were all very lucky that no one was hurt!  The crazy leaders decided to cook up the rattle snake and let the girls eat it.  When they got back to camp they made a plague to commemorate the rattlesnake experience.