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Family Vacation Day Four–Newport Temple & the Beach

What a beautiful place to be, and a beautiful temple!
Grams and Gramps:

Our Family:


At Tucker and Trumans Primary, they get to put a sticker on a map, by the temples they have seen. Tucker was so excited to be here, so he could put a sticker on the map!
Truman:

Tucker:

On a side note, we also went to Sam’s Club to get some groceries. And as Amy and I were walking around, we were wondering if we had been transported to the Twilight zone. (I am giggling as I type this…because it was so random) because we had some weird interactions. First as we walked around, there was a man handing out free samples of cookies who yelled at us for trying to take a sample, then a man on a big machine that was washing the floors, practically ran us over–twice, and it just continued. Funny, funny.

Then off to the beach. Crystal Cove was beautiful beach, and the boys loved the tidepools we didn’t know were going to be there, but found there.
See this smile, it was on his face practically the whole time we were there!

Truman loved to just dig his hands in the moist sand:

Here’s our little family on the beach:

Truman wasn’t quite big enough to go into the waves by himself, so someone was constantly keeping an eye on him, or chasing him. This time it was me:

Here are the handsome boys on the beach:

And the beautiful girls:

Tucker saw something on TV awhile ago, about digging a bridge (tunnel) through the sand. He was dying to do it at the beach. They dug a tunnel that Tru and Tuck could fit through.


Eric also built a beachman:
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And here is Gramps with Truman (the lens on the camera was dirty, but it was such a sweet picture, I had to post):

And now Truman and Grams:

The boys first dip in the ocean:

Truman didn’t really love swimming in the waves, but did like running from them!

Tucker loved this little plastic boat/waverunner toy, much more fun in the ocean, than the pool or bathtub!

I wish I would have taken more pictures of the tidepools themselves, but you can see where they were in those rocks behind Truman. It was so cool to be able to see them! You can see some of the stuff we saw here.
Here they are behind Truman:

The boys in a tide pool:

Me and Tuck:

Truman loved the sea anemones. He kept sticking his fingers in it, and would just laugh when it would suck around it. He went around closing all of them up.
Tucker on the other hand, was anxious to get back to the swimming in the ocean. Who wouldn’t?
What a fun day! Sure wish we lived closer to the ocean! Maybe someday.