We are experiencing the usual Santa Anas right now, but boy is it beautiful outside. Geoff and I decided it would be fun to take a trip down to our first home we had together... 14th in Newport. So we loaded Greyson into my new car... I forgot to blog about that... put his radio flyer in the back and headed down to the beach. Grey took a little snooze in the car which was perfect for a very pleasant playday. We walked on the beach, played at the playground, had lunch at Charlie's Chili and then played some more. It was a super fun family day. We are all completely wind blown, but oh well.
It brought back lots of memories for Geoff and I though. Being right out front of our first tiny apartment. The luxury we had that we were steps from the beach. Just walking on the boardwalk we saw two of our friends on runs and enjoyed our quick hellos. We are definately in a far different place then we were when we lived down there. The pleasure that came from today, playing with our baby (big) boy... we definately never got that from just a bike ride on the boardwalk. Of course, there is that loss of freedom to go as we please, but we have replaced that with so much more.
We are excited to forever be able to visit that special place for us... our first home, all the memories and the beach that Geoff proposed to me on. And someday Grey will understand how special it is to us and hopefully we will be able to build more amazing memories there with him.
1 comment:
it's so neat that you both have fond memories of the first home you lived in. i think i shall never want to revisit our 1st home, lived in when Drew was in med school and I had a brand new baby w/ colic for 7 months that I suffered through by myself. No, i never want to see that home again!!!
love the pics of the cuzs ...
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