Family Pictures!

The Waldron Family at Corona Del Mar:

Left to Right:

Top: Spencer, Jake, Leon, Melodie, Samuel, Justin, Leisa, Laney, Josh

Bottom: Andrea and Baby Morgan, Debbie, Jessica (maybe a future sis-in-law :), Stefanie, Kadie

Our little Waldron Family

Laney wasn't smiling, but hey...she wasn't crying either. :)

You can almost see my baby bump.  I will post a belly pic soon enough.

The Waldron Siblings:

Left to Right: Jake, Josh, Stefanie, Spencer, Sam

I don't think I mentioned that Kadie got glasses right before Christmas Break!

This is a great shot of her cute "Ariel" glasses that she chose out herself.

Debbie called these next shots the "OutLaws",

because we are all the spouses ...and we usually cause a lot of trouble. :)

Debbie Waldron:  Thank you for getting the family all dressed and at the beach at the same time.  It was a rare occasion to have us all there, awake and happy and willing to smile!  I Love our family pictures. :)

Family Pictures

My friend Mandi, who is such an amazing portrait photographer offered to take pictures of our family last weekend. We went to Baker beach (where supposedly clothing is optional! - but it was too cold for that).


Here are some goodies from the fastest photo shoot in the world. The light was fading, Laney was screaming (You'll notice an absence of photo's of Laney) And yet, Mandi still got some amazing shots. :) Thank you Mandi!

The End!

Pacific Grove

There is nothing like a fun-filled weekend with family and friends. October has been so busy with Josh's trips to Chicago, and my art shows happening that this was a much needed trip for all of us. :) Our fantastic friends the MacDonald's took us to Pacific Grove - Monterey for the weekend. It was packed full of fun times, but we still were able to relax a little too! How did that happen so well?

We started off the weekend with a brisk morning stroll to the beach. I love that Laney has a rock in one hand and a stick in the other...proof that she is our tom-girl. :)

Loralee and Troy took us to the Dennis the Menace park. Coolest park EVER! Tons to do and see. Trains, swings, bridges, slides, birds. Even the adults had fun, and everyone was worn out at the end. It was like a free Disneyland!

Ice cream from Ghiradelli was the perfect ending to the day.

This is definitely my favorite picture of the whole weekend. These four kids played together so well it was scary. Kadie and the boys are like the three musketeers.

Typical family picture. We hiked Point Lobos which was so beautiful and fun, but Laney was worn out at the end. I love it, Josh and Kadie with their confused smiles, while I try to coax Laney from screaming to get down. :)
Laney by - I am guessing the Whale Fin Bone? At a small Whalers village right at the base of the hike. They have a small cabin with artifacts and interesting stories to learn about the whalers from long ago.

I love sail boats. I have only been sailing two times, but someday I would love to have a boat of our own. So I took a picture of the marina. I am realizing now that I should have taken a picture of the AMAZING fish and chips and buffalo wings that I ate because that sounds so good to me right now, and a picture is better than nothing. Oh well.

Thank you Loralee and Troy for showing us a great time. We loved every minute!

Southern California

This last weekend, Kadie, Laney and I drove down to Southern California to visit my friend Winter. I mostly wanted to go to see her little boy Cash. I hadn't seen him yet, and he just turned 7 months. I had to take advantage of a trip before he was walking around. So, she talked me into coming down for the weekend, just me and the girlies. Here is Cash! I want a baby boy now so that I can do his hair in a teeny Mohawk. :)

Winter showed us a good time - taking us to Disneyland even though Cash couldn't really do much, but he was so good the whole time. The girls had fun seeing the new princess show, eating pizza, and they even got to pick out a toy. Kadie later had many tantrums because she apparently picked the wrong toy, and wanted to return it so that she could purchase the original toy she wanted.

We even went to Huntington Beach. The girls had a blast, although it was hard for me to stay patient through tantrums and sassy attitude by myself, I stuck through it.

We left just in time, right AFTER Laney Broke Winter's temple figurine from her WEDDING CAKE, and drew all over her wall with pen. I tried to scrub the pen off, and with the pen came the paint...so I basically made it 10 times worse. I am sure Winter doesn't want a toddler for a while. I am SO SORRY again Winter for all of the trouble...but we had a blast, and Cash is such a cutie! Miss you already. :)

Shelter Cove: Episode 2

We went to my parents' cabin again last weekend. (June14-16). I have decided to post these trips as "episodes" because so much happened this last time.

Day 1: Golfing

After we got to Shelter Cove Saturday, Josh, my Dad and the boys decided to go golfing. The golf course is a small 9-hole course right along the shore next to the town's airstrip. You don't have to call ahead either, you just take your $10.00 and put it in the wooden box and you can golf as long as you want. Apparently 9 holes was too long. After the 7th hole, Josh (my brother) got whacked in the head by Nick. I have no hope that there is any safe sport now. They had to rush him home where my mom did minor surgery with liquid stitches. (super glue).

It wasn't all bad, Josh got spoon fed by me and Kadie while he played his Nintendo D.S.

That night Big Josh did a little "birding" off of the deck.

Day 2: No Church? Let's hit the Beach.

On Sunday we really tried to make it to church on time. It was Father's Day. Big Josh stayed at the cabin with Kadie because she was sick, and the rest of us high-tailed it on the twirly 45 minute road trip to the branch building. Alex was sitting in the way back not feeling so hot...so when we got there to discover that there was no church that day, this is how she looked.

Morgan got a kick out of the "Visitors Welcome" sign. Laney was bummed, the branch only has about 20 people that come regularly, and really no children. I think she wanted the nursery all to herself.

The Beach

We found the regular crabs and starfish, but also some new friends. Big Josh and Morgan hiked over some rocks to get some snap shots of the deer grazing along the waters edge and some fat seals living it up in the waves.

Laney was proud of her "baby frock" (little rock) that she found and took care of.

Nick and Josh made up after the golfing episode and had fun exploring the shore.

Day 3: First Time Fishing

Kadie was able to go fishing for the first time this trip. The guy at the bait shop told us that the best fishing that morning would be right off of the boat dock. I really didn't think anyone would catch a thing.

Wait a minute, what is going on? Is that Josh and Kadie reeling something in? "It's Probably just some seaweed" Dad told Kadie. Look a little closer...that is the Perch that Kadie caught!

While Josh was getting the hook out, Kadie's fish had a few baby fish! It actually grossed me out a little, but was interesting to learn that Perch are one of the only fish that actually birth their little fishy babies live.

Being the sensitive girl that she is, Kadie spent about 10 minutes crying because she felt bad for the baby fish. Then she decided to feed the mama fish some squid and then put the babies out to sea.

Here is another Fish that Josh caught, it looked bigger in person, I swear!

Laney didn't catch anything, but she had fun holding the rod.

That's all Folks! Until next time for episode three!