Leo Carrillo

Every Year we get together with some of our good friends ( Hansens, Wallers, Tupous, and this year the Figuroas and Ben & Jen Hansen) and go camping at Leo Carrillo. The kids love everything about camping and well I just love watching my kids have a great time and I endure. Don't get me wrong I had a good time...it's just so much work. Everyone is always dirty, I feel like I'm constantly preparing food, and then there is the never ending clean up, but its worth all of it.
Every morning we get everything together, pack the wagon, and make our walk down to the beach. Leo Carrillo Beach is a lot of fun for the kids especially when it's low tide. There are tons of rock which makes it easy to find cool sea creatures. The rocks don't allow for much boogie boarding or surfing, but the kids don't seem to mind that much. They know that when we go to Leo Carrillo its always a fun adventure of what they can find and also climbing over the rocks to the caves and other beaches.

Brooke was dieing when I told her to hold the huge sea slug that Mason caught...great picture though. I was surprised because she usually doesn't mind touching or picking up anything, but this was her first encounter with a sea slug and I don't blame her GROSS! All of the kids found tons of stuff everyday including hermit crabs, octopus, sea slugs, fish, sand crabs, and tons of star fish. They would show all of us parents and then run back to the rocks in the water and put them back so they wouldn't kill them. I think this was Spencers favorite part of our vacation he loves hunting and finding animals whether its fish in the water or lizards back at camp.Jake spent most of his time watering the rocks. There is a very large wall of rocks that some of the older kids would climb to the top and back down again. Which of course Jake wanted to do as well. I convinced him that he could only go up about half way and that was far enough for him. One of the girls that came with us "Spanky" was awesome she spent hours filling that water can up for Jake to dump on the rocks. She was a life savor and Jake loved every minute of all the attention he was getting from her.
Tyler gave himself the nickname "sandman" He loves rolling around in the warm sand. I cringed every time he came up to me for a snack. I think he got buried a couple of times every day we were there. Every time I was looking for Tyler all I had to do was in the sand.
The Wallers brought their Kayak which was awesome. Mike Waller was the best I lost count of how many kids he took out in the kayak. Both Brooke and Spencer said that one of their favorite parts of the trip was going out on the kayak. Even Tyler loved going out on it, but my camera battery died so I didn't get a picture of him going out.Camping was awesome...we had a great time. My mom came out one night for dinner which made the kids very happy. Brooke finally took my camera and started taking some pictures with me in it. She doesn't think its fair that I'm not in the pictures when everyone else has to be. I think it's perfectly fair because its my camera :)

A lot of work but worth every minute of it!