Vacation

Jeremy was FINALLY able to take some time off for vacation this past week. We had so much fun! We did a lot of things around San Diego and then finished off the vacation by going to visit family in San Luis Obispo.

Day 1

On our first day we went to the Cabrillo National Monument. It was such a beautiful view from up there. We walked down to the tidepools, which Kamryn loved. And we saw the old lighthouse.

Day 2

On our second day we headed over to Balboa park and went to the science museum. Kamryn had fun laying on the conveyer belt at the grocery store station. Then she walked in the fountain. She was pretty excited we let her do that. She was cold afterwards though.

Day 3

Next day we headed to Jeremy's work so I could get a flu shot, and he had to make a few phone calls. Kamryn liked pretending that she was Daddy's patient. Then we went to Seaport Village. It is such a cute place with neat shops. We had some good fish tacos and walked around looking at all of the shops.

Day 4

Macy's first amusement park ride at Legoland!
Kamryn was an excellent driver. This is not bumper cars, so you have to drive around the track and afterwards you get a "driver's license". Kamryn was so excited about that.
The nation's capitol, made out of Lego's!!
The Empire State building. It is so amazing seeing all of the buildings made completely out of lego's.

Days 5 & 6

Another matching outfit that Ashlyn and Macy have.
Melissa's mom was gracious enough to watch our kids so we could go on a double date. We ate at CPK and then headed over to the movie theater to see "A Christmas Carol" in 3-D.


Macy is officially crawling now, and was always attacking Ashlyn.
Kamryn looked like such a tomboy wearing Carson's clothes. They were almost matching. She had a lot of fun in his gymnastics class.
Jeremy and Jared had a good game of football while the kids were in gymnastics.
The kids even got to cheer on their dad's while they were snacking and hiding out in the shade.
Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory caramel apple with sprinkles! Yummy! Later we went to Tahoe Joe's for dinner. It was great! While waiting for our table Melissa an I went to Forever 21. It was huge! It turns out that it is their 3rd biggest store. I am so jealous, I wish we had one that big here.

It was a great vacation spending time together as a family. And Kamryn and Macy were great little travelers. Now Jeremy is refreshed and ready to go back to his 80-hour work weeks!

Halloween

My parents came down to visit for Halloween weekend. We started out by going on a little cruise around the harbor. We went to our church trunk-or-treat, carved pumpkins, went trick-or-treating and passed out candy to the trick or treaters that came to our house. It was a lot of fun. Kamryn loved passing out the candy. She would tell people how much she liked their costumes and then wish them a Happy Halloween.
*On a side note, Macy's first tooth started to break through on Halloween. (this explains the night-waking!)

Kamryn is grumpy here because she didn't want to put her hand inside the pumpkin to clean it out.

So Nana and Papa helped.

The best car at trunk-or-treat! You had to "fish" for your candy with a magnetic fishing pole.

The pirate!

My cute little lamb

A lot of the houses were decorated! One was a haunted garage. Kamryn was a little scared at that one, it had some people that jumped out and scared you. Luckily they were pretty nice when we were there. They gave out a lunch bag with a bag of chips and candy. It was a pretty neat house.

Pumpkin patch

On Saturday Jeremy and Kamryn went to clean part of the church and they came back with doughnuts and sunflowers!

I was able to go with Kamryn and her preschool on a field trip to the pumpkin patch. It was so much fun. We went on a hay ride, walked the corn maze, and she was able to get her pumpkin and feed the animals. It is a great pumpkin patch. In fact we liked it so much we decided we needed to go back as a family so Macy and Daddy could see it too.

Searching for the perfect pumpkin


The three little pigs
I love how some of the pumpkins are still on the vines!
Kamryn-the farmer
Walking the corn maze
We can't wait to carve our pumpkins now!

Catching up

Kamryn colored this:


Kamryn gets stickers on a chart for making her bed and getting dressed in the morning. When I went in to check on her before heading off to bed I found her fully dressed and laying on top of her neatly made bed! Silly girl!


I am definitley not a spontaneous person, but a while back Kamryn woke up in the morning and was begging me to take her to the beach. I really didn't want to go, but decided what the heck?! It was a nice day, and Kamryn had fun building her sand castles.



Kamryn has been dying to ride the llamas at our local farmer's market, so the last time we went she got to ride one. His name was Satellite, and Kamryn was grinning the whole time!



A couple of weekends ago we went to the Wild Animal Park. It was great because the weather was nice and no crowds. I actually think I like it better than the zoo. We went up in this balloon to see a different view of the park and it was totally worth it! Jeremy and Kamryn loved having the lion staring at them. It was pretty cool that there was only a piece of glass between them.

The view from 400 feet up at the Wild Animal Park! It was so fun!

Kamryn and Uncle Dan at the traditional Domingo's birthday dinner. Happy Birthday Dan!

Macy sitting on Papa's lap

Half-birthday

Smiley!

Macy and Bella swinging together. Macy is about 6 weeks older than Bella.
6 months old today! (learning to sit on her own)

I can't believe Macy is 6 months old. She is such a happy girl and very easy going. We have had a few firsts with her this week. First: the rice cereal, then her first ride in the baby swing at the park, she can sit unassisted for short periods of time, and at Costco today she sat in the shopping cart with her big sister! Kamryn was so excited to have Macy there next to her, she had her arm around her like a proud big sister.

Rice cereal

Nana came to visit this weekend. We had fun shopping and hanging out. Since Nana was here, and Macy will be 6 months next week, we decided to feed her rice cereal for the first time. I'm not sure that she loves it yet, but she'll get used to it.





Before. . .

And after

Kamryn was so excited to feed her!

Family time

Hanging out with daddy

Pushing Macy in her doll stroller

Heading to the pool