Family Trip to California
Posted by Christa Umphrey on 08/18 at 08:09 PM
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Hanging out on on Huntington Beach with Dad
Israel is all about catching the waves, and Azia spends her time playing in the sand and trying to look good.
Zoran got dunked a few times and rolled in the waves. Then he spent most of the time just getting his feet wet and burying things (including himself) in the sand.
On the days we didn’t get to the beach the kids thought we had to spend every free moment at the hotel pool. If we weren’t at the pool, they were looking at it longingly from our balcony.
Very Local Fire
Posted by Christa Umphrey on 08/15 at 05:53 PM
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This was a little too much excitement for one afternoon--at least when everything burns so well these days. Luckily Lee saw the fire from his house and called the fire department (and me). Our lawn was short, dead grass and I got most of it put out close to the house and before it got into the field before the fire trucks arrived. My little hose couldn’t reach to the school fence which was beginning to burn, too, so it was good they got there when they did. The ten little kids I had inside eating lunch were also a bit overwhelmed by all the excitement and afraid that the house was burning down. We didn’t ever finish lunch and they were a little wound up for the rest of the day.
Only about 75% of the adults Gage knows are currently spending most of their hours putting out fires. I guess its not a high enough percentage; it doesn’t seem to be sinking in.
