Saila's 6th Birthday on July 28th

Close up of the sprinkles on Saila's all strawberry cake!

Here's Saila's strawberry cake that she requested! It's just
strawberry cake mix with less water than the package called for
because I but some YUMMY strawberries in the food processor
and then baked those in with the batter. It turned out nice and
moist and FULL of strawberry bits.....YUM!!

Saila and Dada- Happy 6th Birthday Princess!!

Six candles on a pink girlie cake for my girl!

What a pretty and sweet girl she is!

The Love Girl of my life....

There is the candy dish that my Aunt Jayne sent me!
THANK YOU, Aunt Jayne! I'm going to put candy in
it because Grandma always did, so I will honor the
tradition!

It was a small get-together....not like the usual big
parties I have (I will throw her a BIG one next year!)
She wanted a friend to spend the night and she chose
Elizabeth! We had a slumber party and watched
Coraline and ate pizza!

She got a lot of nice presents and a lot of Love!
May this year be perfectly amazing, wonderful and
magical with Sweet Dreams and lots of Happy hours!

A Walk in the Woods and Spending time with Loulou and Paul

Sunshine in a web at the Summer dusty trail of
Joaquin Miller

Monkey Flowers

Saila and her favorite tree.....she was very happy to see it

My Shadow doggie, me, and my girl

Shadow, me, and Judy

Some Forget-Me-Nots are hanging on....

She wanted to do this pose

At Loulou and Paul's house!!

A magnolia flower outside the window at Loulou's.
I thot it was extra beautiful and like a painting.....
photographs cannot capture everything....

The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk (view from
the pier)

This wave was caught in one shot!

Silly Saila with Auntie Loulou and Uncle Paul

As Paul pointed out, police vehicle with surfboard!!

Moon over the pier

A memorial along Highway 9

Looks like a car is about to round the corner any minute...

They were working on Highway 9 and part of it was closed....
that's how we got this picture!

Saila says it looks like a giant toad up in a cave

Monster disguised as tree roots

Interesting spot of rocks.....party on or ritual space?
(Both!)

Saila contributed her own little rock sculpture

In the middle of the forest we came across this......a
pond full of fish, healthy and happy

Two bees sleeping/hypnotized by the thistle