Jenna: Home for the Summer

 Everyone loves having Jenna home for the Summer!  This picture was taken outside Red Lobster after Keith's Birthday Dinner. Jenna and I had salmon, Riley had a combination plate and Shaun had trout....it wasn't his favorite.

 

 Jenna enjoys a moment with Brianna; one of her best friends and teammates at Connor's graduation.  It is hard to believe that Jenna graduated from the same school just four years earlier.  Now both of these girls are in college.

 Jenna has become a herbal tea connoisseur.  Sometimes she drinks so much she become inebriated.

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 We've been to the beach more times than I can count this summer and Jenna likes to sunbath more than surf lately.  But here she is in her wet suit heading out to boogie board some excellent waves at Manressa. Riley is in the bottom right practicing with the skim board.  We all had a great time together.

 Girls day out started with lunch at Panera Bread; it was tasty!  Later we drove all the way to the Livermore Outlet Mall and found some good buys.   Amazingly enough we saw Aunt Joleen and Amber there also; it's a small world. I imagine that shopping women find each other more often than not.

 Here we are again at the beech.  Keith and the boys headed out for the High Adventure trip. Sadly Jenna and I were home alone, so we decided to crash their beach party. We went a different route and made it 2 hours! I am not sure if the route was shorter or my foot was heavier than Keith's on the gas pedal.

 Shaun was kind enough to walk us up to the car and send us on our way to the Santa Cruz Board Walk. The scouts were sleeping over at Sunset State Beach and then going kayaking the next day, then on to white water rafting.  If Jenna and I could figure out how to crash those activities we would.

 Shaun always takes extra good care of Jenna and she does the same for him.  He'll bring home 50 cent Burger King ice cream cones and she'll make him his favorite egg sandwich.

 After getting lost on our way to the Board Walk, we finally found our way with Jenna's iPhone GPS; what did we ever do without that. We parked in the boon docks so we wouldn't have to pay for parking; another Butters/Mills tradition, and this is the view that greeted us.

Jenna is the best part of the view to me!

 We headed out past the Dream Inn and found ourselves at the pier in no time.  After looking at every restaurant and menu, we decided to go to Woody's for sandwiches and fries!

 We weren't disappointed, everything was delicious!  To top it off, we had a table next to the window with the seagulls, kayaks and a sailboat to entertain us.

 Jenna really was the best entertainment as usual !

Tonight was Dollar Rides at the Board Walk and Jenna is ready to hit the lines.

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 We passed by fried Twinkies and Oreo's without a second look. I was tempted when Jenna told me about the toilet seat sized donuts.

 Amazingly we meet our next door neighbors on this ride...who would have guessed.

 The lines were long, but the surrounding where ideal and the company, the best!

 

This was our last ride, which we waited in line for nearly an hour.  By the time we were on the ride I was so nervous!  It was amazing flying up in the air, over the beach and water with so many colored lights on the board walk below. I don't think there could be a more beautiful or fun setting for an amusement park.

  Jenna and I screamed until we were hoarse and then powered walked to our car for the long ride home. This time Jenna drove through the windy Santa Cruz mountains and I literally had to lay my seat back and not look, she was going so fast. It was almost as if I was on another ride.

 This picture was taken today.  After Jenna got off work, she quickly changed from her surgical scrubs, puts on her suit and made her lunch before we headed out to the club. Jenna knows how to enjoy her summer! She also knows how to make it special for us.

 Shaun is going to be hungry when he sees this!