Live Imperfectly with Great Delight: Family Spring Break

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Family Spring Break

We had an amazing Beach house San Diego family vacay! ALL of our kids made the time to make this work, and I so appreciate this. We all rented a really fun house that sleeps 16 in beds… that was just 50 ft from the sandy beach. It had a great roof top filled with furniture that we all could gather on and one night we told story after funny story and laughed ourselves silly as we tried to catch Markus up on some of our family history. We also taught the enneagram.

We had two 90 degree days and then two 65 degree days. I love the beach days– the surf and sand and reading a book and playing with and watching the grands play in the sand. They built sand castle after sand castle and dug fortresses and then the waves would wash it away, so they would move up the beach and start again. We found a ton of gorgeous Sand Dollars. The first day we also went to the tide pools at La Jolla and say all of the creatures, crabs and anemones. So cool. On the 90 degree days Wayne went and bought a shade– we should have brought ours from Bountiful…. Now we have two.

We had everyone take a dinner so Add and Bre did pizza one night, Buzelli’s brought in amazing bbq and nachos and peach cobbler from the Southern comfort restaurant. Money and Lexi did rice and curry and then Laila-Markus, Wayne and I did rice bowls with sweet soy glazed chicken. We were on our own for breakfast and lunch. Food worked out great. We loved the breakfast burritos from Sara’s right up the block.

We played a ton of games. I brought a new game- Sleeping Queens that the kids loved and actually Tayla and Alfie and sometimes Sophia played it for 9 hours straight– all day on Sunday in their PJ’s. We also played a heated code names game boys against girls ( girls team also included Monson because we are out numbered) And Sequence and canasta.

Truman entertained Lady, Poppy and Elsie endlessly with filters on his phone… they laughed and wanted to play that way for hours! He also taught us a “family” hand shake from the parent trap that we all learned!

Bre took Laila and Markus’ engagement pics at the Tide Pools. So many good ones. They are just darling together. We also got updated family pics on the beach.

It’s good to spend this consolidated time together….we laugh a lot, bond with the littles, get to know baby George better–and he got used to all of us. Have some good conversations. And just love on each other.