Just a day at the beach!

A few months ago, we came across a great deal on beach gear at Cost Plus.  The funny thing was, everything was significantly on sale because beach season was passing (what?!?).  I didn't know a day where it wasn't beach season in southern California!  Regardless, we snatched up two cute beach chairs and an umbrella, and headed down to Huntington Beach with our new gear.  We've actually made it to the beach several times this summer because we had been blocked off on our Disneyland passes - we had to come up with something to do on our spare weekend days! :)

A boy after my own heart.

Happy to be at the beach!

Cuties

Maddie also had some new beach toys to play with - we were all enjoying ourselves!

Our snazzy new set-up.

Fake smiles can still be cute. :)

Me and Little G.

Maddie insisted on going into the ocean with her big shovel.

Like most kids, she tenses up and gets ready to dart away when she sees a wave coming (that wasn't always the case!).

Beach buds.