Barden/Chavez Beach Day

The Saturday before Thanksgiving the Barden's came down & we went to the beach. It wasn't too cold and Spencer got to surf w/ Eric and Kory & James. I dug a hole for the girls to play in and they had a great time together. We planned on taking our Christmas photo @ the beach and Shannon found a picture of a sandman in a magazine. Brilliant idea! Eric just laughed because he didn't think it would work. But....it did and everybody helped. We used cookies for his eyes, seaweed for his nose & scarf, shells for his smile, the handle from our bucket that broke for his earmuffs and sand claws for his hands. His name is Newbe (newport beach) the Snowman! We each got great Christmas card photo's from this day!