The Ohio bunch arrive and we have a wedding

Our son Cameron, his two boys Arlo and Jack and Camerons wife to be and her two girls Aislinn and Dani arrived from Ohio.  First we introduced Dani and Aislinn to the beach. They had never seen the ocean and jumped right in.

Arlo buries Jack

We look for moonstones

The kids raise a tall stick and a bird 

lands on it then flies off 

 Aislinn enjoyed collecting rocks and shells

Time to explore the tidepools

 Bixby enjoys having his cousins around

 And the boys get right back into boogie boarding

 We love playing games

All the kids are very compatible.

 Arlo and grandad BBQ together

Time to chat and play Uno 

 And visit Nana Gwen and Granddad Oscar on their deck

Arlo pours the tea 

Arlo and Bixby build with Granddad Oscars white lego 

Lots of meals together 

Time in the hammock and climbing trees 

 Tea on the deck

 Playing with Nanas magnets and rocks.
Dani hangs a spoon !!

Cameron flies dads drone 

 Night fires with smores

Arlo studies the night sky 

On Sunday morning July 1st the family 

dressed in Hawaiian finery

and headed for a spot on the bluffs

above Moonstone beach for

 Cameron and Tina's wedding ceremony

 Kelly walked Nana Gwen,
 Grandad Oscar walked with Brian.
The girls strewed flowers, 

Mike played the flute and the setting was perfect.

 Sue was made deputy commissioner for the day 

so that she could perform the ceremony.

More photos of that later but it was very special 

and included the children making their promises.

It was very personal with just family.

Some tears of joy were shed and it was a magical ceremony.

 Cameron gave Tina his own gift 

while Kelly made the cake.

We celebrated all day until 

Cameron and Tina left for a night away.

 Aislinn helped put the lunch out

 Lots of family hugs

Brian and Bixby 

The cake was cut

Kelly made 4 different layers of cake 

 The kids taught Nana Gwen to play Uno 

 Bixby stays overnight 

 

 Good ice cream and more tide pools 

We gently poke sea anenomes 

 Aislinn finds a stinky dead kyton

We visit the elephant seals 

and Aislinn takes the pictures

 

The family 

And with Nana 

 Dani makes a puppet show

The 4th of July festivities 

Uno on the beach 

The kids dig seats for us to watch the fireworks later 

Aislinn still finding treasures 

 

  Waiting for the fireworks

 We spot the wild turkeys across the street.

 And do some painting in the garden

 Jack explains how to  twirl a stick.

 Arlo flies the helicopter

 We spend the day at Kellys.

She has baby frogs...and fruit of her trees

 

 More games are played.

I love that we are a family 

that likes to play games together.

We enjoy fruit from Kellys garden 

  We play more Uno

Then we go outside for a water balloon fight 

 

 

 

 Kelly took some great pictures

with her telephoto lens

 Time for a break

 A great ending with burgers and ice cream sundaes.

 Bixbys "Legoland"

And a stop to enjoy the sunset on the way home 

And the newlyweds..and a family hug 

A look through the old family photo albums

Nana takes the kids for a walk on the ranch 

I feel so lucky to have the good company of my grandchildren

and really happy to have the addition of the two girls. 

We look at the Indian grinding rocks

and imagine life in the past 

Jack demonstrated how to grind acorns 

And Nana tells them about a geo cache nearby 

And Jack finds it hidden in a fake rock 

 The kids give Granddad a birthday card

then its off to Morro Bay to see the otters

 

Then we carried on to the SLO airport for dinner 

then to say goodbye to Cameron, Tina, Aislinn and Dani.

Arlo and Jack will stay with us for a couple more weeks.