Ocean Beach, New Year's Eve

I honestly can't remember if this was New Years Eve or the day before...I took all these with my camera phone so there are no dates. But nonetheless, one of those days we were having super nice weather and decided to take the kids to the beach at sunset. Most of the time it's really windy at the beach but this day it was super calm and delightful.

Timo loves the water and will run right up to it. The only problem is the waves are unpredictable and sometimes the surf comes up really far and sneaks up on you....which it did while Daddy and Timo were squatting down looking at the waves. This is Young trying to back up as fast as he can and the other is of the water that came all the way back where we were standing. You can see the one girl in the first picture didn't get out of the way fast enough...

You will notice Cameron has her snack trap (never leave home without it!)....her new favorite snack is sliced ham so I cut some up and put in her snack trap, innocent enough I thought. She was almost attacked by a dog running on the beach who apparently smelled the ham and run up to her trying to get into her snack trap! Her Daddy scooped her up when he saw the dog become aggressive and the dog owner ran right over, no harm done, plus it was a small dog...but Cameron was so scared...poor baby.
But she calmed down and the kids enjoyed their time at the beach watching the water and playing in the sand. We stayed on the beach a long time, all the way until the sun went down and saw all kinds of birds, bugs and big boats going by. What a beautiful way to close out an amazing year!