Vacation!

So, we haven't been on any trips or vacations for a while, and we were feeling the itch/need for one! I think we were desperate for one despite the consequences of taking three young children on a trip. So we used some of Nate's free hotel points, and drove to San Diego! We left on Friday after Nate worked for part of the day, and the drive was actually fine. The kiddos did great on the drive. We arrived at our hotel at about 9:30pm, and the boys were so hyped up about the hotel, it took them until 11pm to go to sleep because of their excitement :) Not to mention we practically packed a house because of all the stuff we had to bring for them, which took a few trips to the car and back! Then they woke up at 6am :)  So here's how it started..

On Saturday we played at the beach all morning, Isaac and Luke's favorite part was building a sand castle. They were both terrified of the ocean and would even touch the water! I made them both go in the water up to their ankles and they were very upset. I think maybe we talk about sharks too much when we talk about the ocean, and maybe that had something to do with their fear of the water :) whoops.

Wildcat pride!

Nate decided he would show the boys how to not be wimps (since they were so scared of the water), so he went and jumped in. 

In the afternoon we went to mission beach, but we quickly realized that it was too hot, so we went to eat an early dinner instead. It was the worst dinner experience of my life - in terms of my children's behavior, so I am going to skip that part, thank goodness I have no pictures to remember! It is super funny now looking back on it, and it was even kind of funny (just because of how ridiculous everything was) at the time too!! Let's just say I'm glad I'll never see anyone at that restaurant again. 

After dinner, we went to sunset cliffs, which was beautiful!

This part scared me a little bit though. 

I thought they were all going to fall into the ocean. Sunday morning we checked out La Jolla cove, where we got this awesome picture of a wave crashing into the pier and getting us wet! We went to church at a beautiful building, and then went to the Mormon Battalion Center, which has a cool interactive presentation that is super family friendly, and the boys loved digging for gold. 

Later on, we went and visited the San Diego temple, which is always amazing and makes me feel so grateful for everything I've been blessed with, especially my family. 

And that's how we roll with three kids in a double stroller. 

Then Monday morning, we went to this street fair thing where we toured some ships and submarines before heading home. We had some tired kids by the end of this trip (and tired adults too) but it was super fun and I'm glad we were able to go! We are pooped though, so our next vacation won't be for a while :)

June's Blessing and Other Happenings.

June's blessing was early last month. I love baby blessings, especially ones that are within our family! We were lucky enough to have a lot of family attend. June squealed for a part of it, but otherwise did fine :) I am so blessed to be her mom, she is such a sweet little angel baby (did I mention she has been sleeping through the night for like a month now?!).

Isaac started preschool! I cannot believe how fast he is growing up. He was excited for preschool, and never looked back when I dropped him off :) 

June has the wackiest hair on the planet. She is balding, as you can see, but her swirl cowlick in the back makes her hair stick straight up. So basically she has a permanent mohawk. Some people go for this look on purpose, but what do I do with crazy hair like this? Stick a bow on it I guess? Right in the middle!

We had an exciting storm a couple weeks ago - we had no power for about an hour, and the wind blew our little playground all around the backyard. Luke was very worried about it. 

We went to a Tucson Padres baseball game with our friends the Hatch's. It was super fun, mostly because it was a pretty nice night and we left early (baseball games are too long for me). Isaac and Luke didn't really pay any attention to the game, but they had fun dancing to the music in-between :)