Piko and the RED couch

Here is the famous tourquious couch in its new cover... a red red, make no mistake!

The other new arrival at the Miners is Piko, the dog.

He is so soft and cute. He weights 2.6 pounds and we all love him, except Daniel. He is such a party pooper. Don't you worry little family of mine, we won't let dad spoil our plan to have a family dog. Someday we will have a cute little dog like this...or maybe a big huge guard dog.

This morning we drove across the Coronado bridge and spent some time at a park on the island. The kids just enjoyed walking around, playing in the fountain and looking at the water.


Then we went on a small boat ride back to the main land. Barbie met us their with the car.

Then we drove to the Point Loma lighthouse and looked around at the tide pools, which prove to be stressful with 4 young kids walking along a cliff.

Fishing for all

This morning we wanted to do something a little different, so we walked down to the pier and went fishing. Olivia was first at the pole at within 5 minutes she caught a pretty big fish. We watched it swim in the bucket for a few minutes then Olivia decided she wanted to put it back in the ocean. She tried to pick it up, but she couldn't hold the fish long enough, so Sam got the job done. I was so proud of him. He grabbed the fish (nicely) and threw him back into the ocean.

Poppie Mikie baited the line again and gave Sam a turn. After a few minutes, (longer than Olivia's turn) Sam caught a smaller fish. By the way, I hope you love the shirts Sam and Liv are wearing. The kids made them!!

The man on the pier thought the fish were jack skippers, but I am not sure about that. Chloë also got a turn fishing, but she did not have as good of luck as the first two. Thanks Poppie for helping us fish!

After naps we went to the beach until the sun went down. We had a full day!

the rest of the day

After the baby woke up from her nap we went to Sea Port Village to fly our kite.

We enjoyed just sitting, talking and of course some running.

Sam had the kite way past those tall trees, can you see it?

After we flew the kite we went on a carousel ride. Sam's horse was the fastest!

Beach in February

We had a great morning at the beach. The kids made sandcastles, ran from the waves and Olivia went boogie boarding.

Valentine's Day

We pride ourselves on making our own Valentine's. The kids had a great time. We got an early start and everyone made enough for their friends.

Part of Olivia's Valentine party at school consisted of the kids tie dying baby shirts. Each child was able to dye a shirt for Miss Cyndee's new baby.

Here is Olivia with Aida, Nina and Frank.

Can you tell Sam is enjoying ALL his Valentine candy!!

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