Cooking is a passion of mine…mind you, one that is being constantly developed.  Keep in mind passion doesn’t equal perfection or a state of euphoria.  Sometimes everything turns out great and people are watering at the mouth and other times I’m not so luck and I’m sure people will go running for the door. Either [...]

We couldn’t let my family leave without seeing Coronado Island.  Off we went and enjoyed part of a beautiful day checking out the sights and letting the kids play on the dunes.  Honestly, there wasn’t too much sand playing on the kids part due to the temperature of the sand.  We tried to convince my parents [...]

After spending a week at the beach as a family we are finding that our children have changed a good 5 or so shades darker.  Because the amount of time we spent at the beach, we found that we gave a lot of time to ocean as well as the sand and got a bit [...]

My brother and sister in law came into town for the last couple of weeks with their kids and we were able to meet up with them a couple of times.  We chose to spend our time together at the beach.  Is there really a better place than that?  Will and our niece, shown in [...]

So we did a little power packing of our 4th of July this year.  We were all about sticking to tradition.  The ward pancake breakfast/flag raising started the day.  We actually missed the flag raising partly due to a pipe bursting in the house, but we did make it for the pancakes.  After that delicious [...]