Pismo Trip - Summer 2011

We took a trip over to Pismo this summer. We had a certificate for a 2-night stay on Oceano, and we didn't want another summer to go by without a trip to the beach. The weather was perfect...chilly in the evening and pleasant during the day. Not hot, but not too cold.

Jackson couldn't really remember the last time he was at the beach so this was a really fun trip for him.

We walked on the pier...
Drove on the beach...This was a fun adventure for Lou and Jackson. Honestly, they would have probably liked to do more "off-roading."
We spent about half of one day down on the beach...playing in the sand and water. We took a picnic (reminded me of when I was a little kid) and spread out a blanket and just enjoyed the ocean.

Jackson did not want to stop playing in that freezing cold water. He loved it!

We hunted for shells and sand dollars.

I enjoyed laying in the sand. Just being lazy.
That's Jackson way out there.
It was a fun trip. We found this place called Doc Bernstein's Ice Cream Lab. They made all kinds of ice ream right there in the parlor. There was a line out the door the first night we went there, but the next night was not so bad. Yes...we had ice cream both nights we were in Pismo. It was THAT good.

All in all it was a great trip. Next time we want a few more days.

Standifer Family Picnic Adventure

Today we decided to take Jackson to practice his soccer at the park. He is playing on a team for the first time this year and we wanted to help him practice a little. I thought we should take a picnic to the park and make an outing out of it.

I wasn't prepared enough to make us sandwiches so we stopped off at PCH sandwiches and picked up our picnic. Jackson and I went inside to order our sndwiches while Lou waited in the car. Jackson found the newspaper and got a little reading in while we waited.

We didn't have to go far from our house to find a nice park with lots of shade and trees to have a nice picnic. We spread out our blacket and ate our good lunch. Lou and Jackson found a couple of trees to make our goal posts and they were against a fence so we didn't need a net.

Jackson drop kicked the ball for the first time and it got stuck right in one of the trees. BUMMER!

Lou had a folding chair in his car so we folded that up and tossed it up in the tree. I said, "I hope we don't get the chair stuck in the tree." Lou said, "Oh, the chair won't get stuck." ...The chair and the ball both ended up in the tree.
Luckily we were not too far from home. We all jumped back in the car and headed home. We thought about bringing back our ladder, but it is heavy and too long to fit nicely in our car so we settled for a walking stick that we had in our garage and our kitchen step stool.

We headed back to the park with are gear...Cracking up about it the whole time.

We got the chair down easily, but the ball was a bit more hard to do. We had to throw the stick up in the tree and finally the ball came down.

Only one problem...

The stick got stuck up there. We threw the ball up one time and got all of our items out of the tree. Pretty silly.

We played some good soccer AWAY from that tree.

Thanks guys for the fun adventure.

Happy Halloween

I can't believe I am actually putting up a post on time....Wooo Hooo!


Last year we started the tradition of decorating pumpkin people. We each decorated our own and Jackson and I did the pets this year too. Here is The Standifer Pumpkins.... Lou....
Shannon....
Jackson.....
Simon.....
Benji....Goldie....Arn't his fins great?!

Here's a few pumpkins we carved too....
And since we were feeling so silly....Jackson and I decided to go to Target last night and pick out some costumes for the dogs...They were onsale and we just couldn't wait to get home and try them on the dogs... Benji...The pumpkin! AND Simon...The Hot Dog!....Hahahahahahahahahahahahahhahaha! We thought this was hilarious! We are lucky our dogs are pretty good sports about dressing up...they are not crazy about it, but they left them on long enough to take pictures.

Here we are at the Pumpkin Patch...We had a fun time