When I was in Orem last month, Amanda let me borrow this picture of her as the "Mom" holding Isabel at the beach--remember that pose of Joy and Amanda? The comment Amanda made was "the baby doesn't look as happy and the Mom doesn't look as thin." I am so grateful to see that Amanda still has that happy "beach" face now that she is all grown up. We will have to keep taking Isabel to the beach with the hope that she will learn to love it too!

As the years passed you can see they are still enjoying the beach--this time they had increased in number as you can see Abigail in the background behind the amazing sand castle.

This is one of my favorite "beach" pictures of Joy and Amanda, because they look like they are loving the beach as much as I do! When I think of fun beach trips, I remember the one with Joy and Todd and Sarah and Matthew and Amanda and Sam when we spent a week in a beach house in northern California. Don't they all look happy?