Santa Barbara with the Beebe's!!

We are having a great time in Santa Barbara with our good friends, the Beebe's!! Pam and I have taken the kids to the beach every day which means lots of fun, sun, waves, and sand up the shorts. The first day at the beach we saw 2 dolphins and 2 seals. That was pretty cool.

Lizzy and Ricky are pros with the boogie boards and body surfing and are the Michigander kids are catching on quite well. The following are just a conglomeration of pictures from the past few days.

That's Ricky and Lizzy is in the wave.

Lizzy's showin' 'em how it's done.

This picture says it all! We are just having a BLAST! It is so nice to be with our friends. We have missed them so much and it just feels so natural to be here with them. They have treated us to some wonderful food, including a lemon meringue pie made by Jodie and Lizzy with freshly picked lemons from a tree in their yard. Everyday we have fresh fruit from the local farmer's market like strawberries, blueberries, melons, watermelon, apricots, and peaches. The kids are getting along great - lots of game-playing, puzzles, and every night we watch a movie, and half of us fall asleep before it's over....just like home for me.

Right now at 10:00 a.m., we're lounging around the fireplace (yes, it's lit - the morning's are cool) and having coffee/tea. Pam and I walked on the beach earlier with our friend Susie Sheard, Lizzy made smoothies with fresh strawberries and bananas, and now we're talking about what we want to do today....which of course will include going to the beach!

Leaving here will be hard...not because of the weather, the ocean, the fresh produce...although those things are nice, but we will miss our dear, dear friends something awful! I have many more pictures to post and will either include them here on this post or a whole new post.

Thanks for praying and reading...we miss you all something awful too!!