Memorial Day

This photo was found in today's OC Register - taken during the National Anthem at the Race. Eloise, Me, Dylan, Luke and Darin.

Heidi and Dylan enjoy the ocean...

Eloise, Luke, Dylan and Franz build castles...

Following the running events we made our way to Crystal Cove State Beach.
It was beautiful and not crowded! Here MaCall sports new swim suit with cousins Luke and Delany.

Apparently our kids do not get out enough. You can't take them anywhere!
FYI Woody's Diner has a great veggie burger!

Franz beat his own time on his second 5K - the Laguna Hills Memorial Day Marathon. Heidi ran her first 1/2 marathon and came in under 3 hours! Hunter ran the 1/2 marathon and came in just JUST over 2 hours! Well done to all the athletes!

All in all it was a lovely weekend. Saturday we enjoyed the many yard sales on the mountain. Franz found a great set of golf clubs -complete with glove - for only $10! Eloise found a skate board for a school project - a float of NY for a class state parade - I found tomato cages for my growing tomato plants. No cool bench or iron chair for my yard though...

MaCall had a day out on Saturday with her quartet friends - practiced for a wedding gig coming up, went down to Old Navy to get $1 flip flops (sold out), hiked down to a creek and swam, then went bowling.

Sunday Franz gave another masterful lesson in Gospel Doctrine. We walked at the lake somewhere in there....

Sunday night we drove down to Laguna Hills - found a nice hotel room - cheap on Hotwire. That way we were ready to go early Monday morning to register for the race.

All in all it was a fun day and being at the race, with the flags, National Anthem sung - it felt appropriate for Memorial Day. We were also right near Leisure World - new name now - which had me thinking of Grandma and George.

Hope you all had good weekends. Now we are back to school. Tomorrow Eloise is off on a school trip to Yosemite. We will miss her. She is so much fun to have around - most of the time.