Off we go to visit this for the weekend!
Grandpa with his hat by doctors orders. No sun for you Mr. Crowley!
Shelly is so darn cute in these pictures. What a cute young mother she is.
Jeremy holding his youngest baby bird
See what I mean -- he loved the water -- his brothers did too but he was relentless.
This pix is a little older. I'm not sure how old, but what a handsome guy.
Chase
Emery
Carsen
Cute family!
It was about 65 degrees, but the pool was heated. While the kids were swimming we sat around the fire pit and ate pizza You can see the fire pit in the picture above top left corner.
And here are my feet keeping toasty warm while enjoying my piece of pizza
We headed west out of Fresno through the farm country and over the mountains to Monterey Peninsula. The drive was beautiful -- and yes -- we ran into a CA traffic delay, but our excitment was not dashed. We came for a fun fun weekend.
By the time we arrived we were hungry so we parked and walked to Fisherman's Wharf. Who knew there were two? Well, this wasn't the one in San Francisco. This was Monterey! Lots of boats, lots of people and lots of offers for free clam chowder. We were sold. We had to find a nice place on the water to find clam chowder. It was delicious!
Here's Emery at the restaurant just before she ate her clam chowder! Ha Ha she had chicken fingers. Tanner had the chowder and Carsen tried a couple of shrimp. Of course Rich and Shelly, some of the non fish eaters in the Crowley Family had burgers. The other two non fish eaters in the family will remain nameless, but they are my two other daughters-in-law. How do you not like shrimp?
Here's Emery. She was watching the sea lions with her brothers.
Chase, Tanner and Carsen watching the sea lions
Grandpa and Tanner on the pier
Jeremy and Em
Birds and kids
Tanner
Carsen
Grammy, Chase and pirate
Carsen
Em and her cotton candy from the candy shoppe!
We all had jackets. The weather was 63 when we were walking around.
My hair does amazing tricks at the ocean!
Shelly and Tanner - Carsen on the edge
Jeremy with me and some other guy who is trying to get in the pix.
Tanner
We left the Wharf and found our hotel. Everyone changed and we headed for the beach. Jeremy found the perfect beach. There is a beautiful paved path along the beach with benches and lovely treed areas. Lots of runners and bikers were on the path getting exercise. I saw Shelly eyeing the path, but she had on the wrong shoes.
Here's Jeremy!
Our Crowley Gang has been going to the beach since 1975 as a family -- even before Jeremy was born. He was the one we could never get to come out of the water to eat or do anything for that matter. He stayed in the water all day!. He would occasionally come up for a drink.
Here's the proof. Rich the expert photo dad captured ALL childhood events in black and white. He put together several scrapbooks for each of our kids. What a great dad. He sure loved his boys!
These pictures are priceless to us!
Jeremy at the beach about age 8
See what I mean -- he loved the water -- his brothers did too but he was relentless.
And here is Jeremy's Gang!
Tanner looking like he was tip-toeing was running.
Carsen building a water trench to the surf. Then he found a fish in the surf that he wanted to bring home.
Tanner holding the fish
Some ladies at the beach who didn't know how to dress for the ocean.
Some regular beach bums or is that the big Kahuna and his son!
By the time we left the beach it was dinner time. Jeremy ordered pizza on the way home for delivery to the hotel and the kids headed to the pool. Kids never get tired do they?
And here are some of the pizza eaters. Rich with his mouth full of pizza, Jeremy with his eyes a little closed and Tanner munching down on his pizza and they all said I could use the pix on my blog. Well, maybe Tanner wasn't asked.
After the pool all of the kids except Chase came to Grammy and Grandpa's room to watch a movie (Croods) and eat treats. We discovered that the Kraft caramels (well we were going to Carmel) were mostly eaten in the back seat of car #2 by Tanner and Carsen. When our boys were little we always had a bag of caramels for the drive to Nags Head. We hadn't had those caramels for years. And --oops -- imagine my surprise after I had looked forward to caramels at the hotel - Em and I each got one as we were in the other car. Yes, I was a little bent over the situation, but then Shelly got none! She had fallen asleep. I could have given her mine, but hey, she was asleep in a different room. Our car snack was Cheez-Its. Not nearly as glamorous as caramels.
There's lots more of the weekend at the coast so stay tuned for the next blog!
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