Just Beachy

I tried to be very diligent about my studies yesterday but really feel like I didn't get as much done as I would have liked. Right now I'm taking Child Development, Psychology 320 from BYU Independent Study. I believe I have about seven classes left to be done with my Bachelor's of General Education. After this is done, my plan is to get a masters in education probably from Portland State (Ugh! The clausterphobic elevators) and become a school media specialist (fancy name for librarian).

It's sad to come this far and spend all my time locked in a room studying, so this morning, we took a walk down to the beach. After we'd started out, I remembered the camera, so here are my snappings of the beach.


It's great weather. The kids spent quite a bit of time looking for agates for grandpa's collection.

Aedan found four crabs legs and wanted to bring them home. Thanks goodness for the camera; I could say, "Let's just take a picture and leave them here, okay?"

Gannon found a whole sand dollar. I have never found a whole one in my life.


Zan's mom has a new dog (the one standing behind the log, near Quinlan's shoulder in teh photo). She's a briard and is very sweet. This has been good for Maggie to get used to being around other dogs. I guess Briards are herding dogs, so her tendency is to herd Maggie. Maggie will have nothing to do with that--being a good ol' red-blooded Boston terrier. But, Maggie puts up with it all quite well.

Teagen was big on the idea of walking the dog. Here he is walking Cody, Zan's parents' neighbor's dog, but it seems that he found his place with Maggie, who is much closer to the right size and takes it easy on Teagen as she thinks he is her pup.

In this last photo, Gannon has his pockets weighed down with everyone's treasures. Dierden found quite a few beautiful rocks. We're surprised Gannon's shorts didn't fall down with how full they were.