Beach Boy

How to spend Labor Day weekend...

First, murder Daddy.

Then, eat some delicious sand. Make sure you have a runny nose, so you wind up with a sandstache.

Just kidding about the murdering Daddy part! Unfortunately not about the sand eating...

Sand is so fun to mush your hands in

And put in other people's shoes

It makes a lovely gift

You can let it run through your fingers while someone tries to eat your head

Or while ignoring the ocean

Eventually, you should probably check out the ocean too

Especially those bubbles the waves leave on the sand...

But be careful! The ocean always comes back...

Actually, it was a ton easier to be at the beach with Austin when he ran from the waves. Once he got over that, we would up picking him up out of the surf. And we left with a pile of seashells and a salty, sandy little man.

Farmer Austin

Wow, it's been a long time since I posted! Sorry about that! But I'm bearing gifts and stories and pretty pictures, so that should be worth something, right?

Anyway, we went berry picking today! This place was close to Santa Cruz, right on the ocean, so it was nice and cool. Windy and salty too.

He who walks between the rows

And licks strawberries

Two-fisted strawberry licking

And to think Mom thought we might take some home

As usual, most of our pictures are walking away... :)

When Austin decided we'd had enough strawberries, we had to go visit the cows in the field adjacent to the strawberry picking. He rode on my shoulders along the road and kept reaching into the bucket under my arm for more berries. To eat on my head. And when we got back to the farmstand to weigh our berries, there was delicious hot apple strawberry cider.