Fun in California

The Kids and I spent our Winter Break in California visiting my family. We had a week's worth of fun. Here are some of the highlights of our trip.





Fun on the Marine Base,




Fun at Grandma's House,





Fun with Santa,


Madison not thrilled with Santa,


Fun on Christmas,






Fun at Disneyland on Christmas,





Before the clock struck midnight, We had to fly home! Thanks to everyone for a great trip!

We're Outta Here

We hit the road to get a jump start on some back to school shopping if you can believe that. Our trip turned into an overnight one. After a full day of shopping, we were all too tired to drive all the way home. Especially when Maddie is wanting out of the car. I called it our mini-vacay because we got a hotel room and had a lot of fun. The kids loved being some place new and we had been shopping all day so we already had extra clothes with us. We still however made a night run to Target before they closed. It's fun being in a store late like that. I use to work there and I forgot how peaceful it is that time of day. The best time to shop, but still not ideal when you have to bring three kids with you. Just because it's Summer though, they are up late anyhow so it didn't matter going shopping that time of night. We stalked up on all sorts of goodies and made it back to our hotel. Jared wished they had an X-Box and Brittany wished she had her computer, but they survived one night without their tech gear. This is some of the things we did.

We hit up Toys R Us first. There we got to see what Madison would like for her birthday.



At the Mall...Brittany got her California Roll Sushi.




Madison finally tuckered out. She was going and going all day! I thought she would never take a nap.



Jared always gets a kick outta seeing this store with his name on it.



The glorious view from our hotel room. MY FAVORITE STORES in the distance. I wished we lived there.



The next day we headed home. Tear, Tear. We did do a few more things to lift our spirits.

Jared practiced some at the batting cages




We treated ourselves to some ice-cream. Sonic is always sweeter after-dark. The new Campfire Ice-cream flavor. It does taste like a smore in a cup!




Next trip? Which way should we turn?



I think we are going to do another overnighter before school starts. It was a lot of fun and less stressful when you don't have to worry about doing all the driving in one day.

Now it's time to focus on putting together a great birthday party for Maddie. Our house is transforming, I've been busy decorating too. Pictures to come.