ATKINSON FAMILY: vacation

A pitstop in Vegas.. We loved the lazy river and sandy pool. The kids have been obsessed with American Ninja warrior this summer and were anxious to find Mt. Midoriama while we were here. Josh kept telling us, its just by the pyriamid thingy and MGM. We have to find it. Unfortunately for them, the finals were filmed a couple weeks ago, so we weren't able to spot it. Lucky for us, that just meant more time at the pool!

Then off to Southern California for a relaxing summer vacation at the beach!

The kids loved the koi pond. They were huge!

Does it get any better than this? Golf, Basketball and the Ocean- all in one shot!

Our Die hards! The water is of course freezing, but they were determined. Once they got in they never got out!

Lucy loved chasing waves. Those cute little legs ran all day long!

Nate was enjoying finding seaweed and sand crabs, but I think the best part of his vacation was the sand. He would roll all over in it, throw it, eat it, bury himself in it, whatever! and no one even stopped him!

Josh must have found a thousand sand crabs. The funniest part about this is, he was the most popular kid on the beach that day. By the end of the afternoon, kids were bringing more crabs to him to add to his collection. Kids were coming up to me asking where my kid was with the crabs and would get him out of the ocean to show off the collection! That night at the pool kids were talking about him in the hot tub to their parents... It was quite funny.

Lucy has been telling us all summer, "Ahh, this is the life!" We laughed so hard when Nate leaned over to me (after burying him in the sand) and asked, "Is this the life?" It then became the theme of the trip!