Tuesday, May 13, 2008

California Part 1

We are back from our vacation and after a lazy day of doing nothing yesterday and trying to recover, I am ready to get back in the swing of things! We had a great time on our vacation and did so many things I think it's going to take a couple posts to cover it all. We left Friday the 2nd and flew to Phoenix, where we had a hour and a half layover and then we were on to Santa Barbara. Unfortunately all this traveling was during Sam's naptime so he was pretty fried. This face says it all!

Saturday was a beautiful and sunny day and in hindsight we should of taken advantage of the morning to hit the beach, but we thought we would have plenty of days like that. We forgot that mother nature always decides to cool off the sunniest state on in the US when we visit! Anyway, we did go feed the Koi at the pond where Mark's grandma used to live. The kids loved that so it was totally worth it!




We did go to the beach later that day but by then the clouds had rolled in and it wasn't warm so we just went to look and dip our feet in. Rex loved it and Sam was intrigued. Luckily with the cloud cover I got some great pictures!





Next we met up with Johnny and Tracy and their kids who just got back from camping on the beach. Rex and Sam had a great time with their cousins at the park.
Rex and Emily

Sam and Blake

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Looks like you guys had a ton of fun, those fish your boys were looking at were HUGE! So I was sitting out in the hall during church the other day (nothing new) and thought of you guys, glad your be back next week. It was really boring by myself! haha

Dana said...

Glad you're back. I can't wait to see more pictures!

Andrea Weaver said...

Looks like you had a blast on your trip! You look gorgeous too. I was laughing so hard about blindman Dave...such a blast from the past! Emily will for sure remember his last name!

Lesley-Ann said...

Your boys look different every time I see a new photo of them. Looks like you had fun in California. We are excited to see Jess and Ben and even more so to see Jack in just a few days.

Ryan and Angela said...

That looks like such a fun vacation. You sure did a variety of things. Yes, I know. I am just now checking your blog. I am a huge slacker lately with the blog thing.