Family 'Foot' Foto

These babies took many a stroll down the shore line in search of shells, sand dollars, and cool rocks. They touched the freezing cold central coast water, tiptoed across prickly pine needles in camp, carried us across the tide pools, and cliff-jumped off the dunes. Sandy toes, sandal suntans, chipping polish - all together make some happy feet.

Pier Fishing

One of Trevor's favorite summer activities is fishing. He LOVES to get out there with a fishing pole and wait for a great bite. or a nibble. or anything for that matter. He was fully anticipating our pier fishing experience before we left town last week for our Pismo Beach trip. He had to wait a few days before we actually made it out to the pier, but in the end it was soooo worth it. He caught the first fish of the evening!

Everyone caught a fish! As a right of passage, you must HOLD the fish you caught, nice and firm around it's belly so it doesn't flop away, for the camera. Yeah, Lizzie couldn't do it.

Jordan was an animal fisherman! He caught 2 fish at once! And I just love the look of pure joy on my dad's face as he proudly held his catch (before he tossed it right back into the ocean).

Here's the bucket o' fish at the end of the night. Yummy, right. The fish were only half alive in that bucket. They'd flop around trying to get free - sometimes they would flop out of the bucket, scales flying everywhere, women screaming for dear life, until a manly man would pick up the fish and throw it back in there. Bella had a great time splashing around in that fishy water. Check out Gramma Elizabeth's face as she's holding Bella aka "fish fingers".

Make sure to stay tuned for another story about this bucket o' fish...

Trevor's pier fishing dreams came true once again. And we all enjoyed a nice evening being together. Nice weather. Beautiful sunset. Good company. Great fishing memories.

Day 3 Spring Break: Pismo/SLO

Day 3 of our Central Coast Tour took us to Pismo Beach. This beach has many fond memories for our family as we visit every summer for about a week with my Boggs side of the family. We do all the same things and eat all the same places every time we go. But we could only choose our most favorite activities because rain was forecasted for this day of our trip. We had pier fishing and Splash Cafe on our To-Do list.

We got all the way down to the pier, parked and got out of the car JUST as it started raining! My parents had just come out of their hotel room and were walking up to the pier at the exact same time we arrived - total coincidence. Mom was prepared of course, with her umbrellas - one huge golf umbrella and her beach umbrella - genius! The wind picked up and sadly it was too strong for the beach umbrella and we had to put it away.

That rain was not going to deter us or our fun! The boys, grandma and grandpa went out to the pier to fish while Kelly and I took the babies shopping. Fishing in the rain or shopping with small children. Which would you choose? After about an hour we were all done with that fun. We sloshed our way to our next activity - Splash Cafe! and met for lunch.

This restaurant is on our family's top 5 favorites. Jeremy is not a fish eater, but he likes to dip the onion rings in the famous clam chowder. He also likes to run next door to Brad's and get a tri-tip sandwich to eat while we enjoy our fishy food. You can see just how much he likes it!


Mmmmm.... I'm salivating..... Logan went for the sourdough bread bowl this time around. And Trevor loves their hamburgers with curly fries.


So after yet another gut-busting meal we decided we were cold, wet, and tired and needed to find some candy to cleanse our palates. The Pismo Hot Lix store was closed and a sweet treat was calling! We hopped in the car and drove back to San Luis to visit their Powell's candy store. The kids were in heaven trying to decide how to spend their money. Jackson was in heaven as he filled up his bag with all different kinds of gummy candies, "I wun dis wun, an dis wun, an dis wun..." After about 30 minutes of shopping they all plopped down into the movie seats in the store and sat for a good while. Can you tell these kids were wiped out?




With candy in hand we walked down the street to the San Luis Obispo Mission. None of us had been there before and thought it would be interesting and appropriate for our crowd especially because Trevor had just finished his mission project for school. He didn't have the San Luis Mission, but it was still relevant, right? The chapel was gorgeous as was the garden/courtyard area. We walked down to the small river running in front of the mission and had some fun floating sticks down the stream and racing each other to see who's stick was the fastest.

It was such a beautiful spot that I couldn't help but take a few shots of these to gorgeous girls. They are so cute together! And that Lucy has the cutest wardrobe of any little girl I know.

I forgot to mention earlier that Julio did not get to spend the days with us. He was busy at work and school otherwise he would have been right there with us the whole time. But we did get to see him in the evenings which was nice.

So after another fun-filled day we headed back to Kelly's house earlier than usual to kick back and watch movies. She cooked us a delicious dinner and we had a nice time just laying around and being lazy relaxing at their place.

Day 1 & 2 Spring Break: Avila

We did the Central Coast Tour for our Spring Break trip. (You know how we like to go out of town any chance we get.) Kelly and Julio graciously opened their home to us and let us come stay for 3 nights. The kids have lovingly named it "The Julio Hotel" - which does not seem quite fair because the house does belong to Kelly and Lucy as well. Maybe we should call it the "Hernandez Hotel" instead.

So we began our trip right after General Conference ended. We drove down to Kelly and Julio's house with a plan to do a bonfire on the beach and roast hot dogs for dinner. About 20 minutes down the road ol' Jackson threw up in the car. Oh yeah, you parents out there know exactly what that is like. We cleaned it up as best as we could and continued on down the road. Jeremy and I crossed our fingers and hoped it was just a case of car sickness. It happened again. And again. (And maybe one last time, but I can't be sure.) We called Kelly to let her know we'd be there later than we thought because of all the clean up stops we had to make. So we decided to change our fancy dinner plans. Instead of a bonfire on the beach we opted for a picnic at the park just across the street from the Hernandez Hotel.

After we arrived, unloaded a bit, and set up our "camp" in their living room we headed over to the park for dinner. Jackson tossed his cookies one more time and the rest of the kids had fun running around and releasing some of that pent up energy from traveling in the car. That was about all the fun we had on day one.

Day 2 was more action packed.

We began at Avila Beach. This beach is our favorite for the kids. The waves are small and it is never crowded. This sign greeted us when we walked onto the beach. That's welcoming, right? Jeremy helped the kids build an awesome sand castle. It had a mote and three tunnels - boy, those kids don't know how lucky they are.



Poor Baby Lucy got some sunscreen in her eye and spent most of the day looking like a pirate (argh!) because it swelled up a bit. She didn't complain about it once! Lucy was content just to be there and eat as much sand as she could get away with. And check out her first ever pony tail! Oooh! It's so fun to play dress up! Logan and Lizzie hammed it up for the camera. They were so happy to be at the beach and to have it feel like summer time. They rolled around the warm sand all day. That last picture gives new meaning to "sugar coated sticky buns".



Here's some fun video of all of us on the beach:

Remember when Logan ate it at Pismo?...

BEWARE!! GRUESOME PICTURES AHEAD!



Logan took a nasty fall off his scooter while we were at Pismo this year. At the time, Jeremy and I were just as traumatized as poor Logan and didn't have the presence of mind to whip out the camera like we should have. Luckily Stephanie was thinking straight and had her camera ready. She emailed these awesome pictures a few days ago and I thought it would be fun to share them.

Here's a good one of the wound. Logie Man was pretty distraught in case you couldn't make out the expression on his face.

Here's Jeremy, Jennifer and cousin Ryan (the firefighter with emergency first aid training) trying to decide if we should run to the ER or urgent care to get stitches or just put on a butterfly bandaid and live with a scar on his forehead for the rest of his life.

Here's what we finally decided. Watch out, it's going to be brutally honest... we decided not to go to the ER because we didn't want to waste an entire day of our vacation sitting in a waiting room! Logan was ok with this decision after his uncles paraded around all of their different scars telling him how cool he'd be if he had one too. Caralee saved our bacon as she donated a few butterfly bandaids to the cause.
Logan is fine and well and looking back, he did great in a traumatic situation. No screaming, no panicking, only quiet tears streamed down his face that day. He was so brave! His scar is forming nicely and he makes sure to check it's progress every day.

Stephanie, thanks for the memories! You captured the moment for sure and now we can remember it forever. You rock!

Boggs Camping Trip 2008

The trip began Friday afternoon. We packed lots of fun things into a short amount of time and went home Tuesday feeling like we didn't stay long enough.

It seems like we do the same things every year:

-play on the beach by the pier,

-rent boogie boards and wet suits

-eat Splash Cafe,

-hang around camp,

-visit the tide pools at Montana de Oro,

-go to church,

-campfire with delicious treats - Thomas and Amy even brought fondue! It was AWESOME!,

-do the Avila beach and fruit stand,

-fishing off the pier,

-and end the trip with the famous Pismo Beach cinnamon rolls.

We did exactly all those things. Was half that list just about the food? Ummmm. I think it was.

There were a couple of extra activities we did that were out of the norm. While we were there my cousin, Timmy, competed in the San Luis Obispo cycling competition. He sure loves to ride his bike. He had a great cheering section at this race. He finished middle of the pack and ended up winning some cash prizes. Good job, Timmy. Good job.

We also got to spend some time with Kelly, Julio and baby Lucy. We love those guys! They live in San Luis and we met up with them a few times while we were there.

The 4 boys, Trevor, Logan, Jacob and Sam, named themselves the "Razor Riders". They rode those scooters all around the campground constantly. The first day Logan had a little mishap and his head ate it pretty bad on the asphalt. We probably should have gone to get stitches, but decided a butterfly bandaid and a small scar would be cooler. We were lucky to have our own EMT firefighter on hand and several first aid kits to choose from - thanks everyone for your help! Jeremy took this picture just before the accident - notice no bandaid on Logan's head in this picture. (Look at their expressions - those faces crack me up!)

Lizzie made friends with some of her distant cousins. Maddy was the girl cousin closest to her age and they played great together. Lizzie named her "New Maddy" because she has another cousin named Maddy too. She had a blast climbing trees with her other cousins Jacob and Jackson.

It was another great camping/beach trip. Good times and good visits with the family. See you next year Pismo!