Sea World and Campland on the Bay

Leah, Cade, Isaac, Alan, Chad, Brianna and I all took off last Tuesday and drove to San Diego a few days earlier than our planned trip to San Diego for camping with the family. We stayed two nights in a hotel and went to Sea World and had an amazing time!

Waiting for Shamu

 The gang

 Dolphins

 Touching the starfish

 Alan, Cade and Brianna went on the rapids and came back soaked!

 Drying off

 Sea turtles

 Chad LOVED this green button you could push and spray the oncoming riders with water on the rapid ride.

 Aunts and niece!

 

On Thursday we meet up with Grandpa and Grandma, the Porters and the Bennetts for 5 days of camping at Campland on the bay in Mission Bay San Diego. This was our first time going to Campland and we had a GREAT time. The weather was PERFECT. I think for the majority of the time it was high 70's occasionally low 80's and beautiful! We slept in tents and it was cool at night and not freezing...we will definitely be back again! The camp ground has a market, laundry room, restaurant, ice cream place, game room, basketball, volleyball, skate park, etc. There is a beach in the bay we spent most our time at. We paddle boarded, kayaked, water pedal biked and papa rented a sailboat to take out!  We had tons of ice cream and went in the pool and the cousins rode their scooters all over the campsite and played at the park behind the Porters campground.

Brigham and Brianna

 Some of the kiddos

 Chad and Coley

 Porter campsite (above the van you can see the playground that was directly behind the Porters)

Our campsite with David and Lindsay

 Some of the gang (Missing Papa and Grandma)

 The bay

 Sarah braved it with twins and they did great!

Papa and Brooklyn

 Grandma and Brigham

 Coley

 Chad was so tired from playing he passed out for 3 hours on the beach!

 Jellyfish

 

 Grandma

Jessica

 Cousins playing

 Some of the gang at the beach we went to

 Brig

 Sarah and her twinners

 Brook and Brig

 Grandma and her grandkids

YAY!

 Brooklyn

 Ava and Chad

 Breakfast

 Jessi laying out

 Flying kites

 Us in the pool

 Playing with cousins

 Knocked out!

 Ghost stories in the tent!

 This about sums it up!

Thanks Grandpa and Grandma! We had such a fun time and cant wait to do it again!

Chad's 4th Birthday!

Our big boy turned 4 on the 27th of this month.  We celebrated on the 24th with a monster truck party and all our cousins! This year was exciting because I felt like this was the first year we were home (last year for his 3rd bday we were in Havasu) and having an actual birthday party he got to pick! He wanted green and monster trucks so that's exactly what we did! We rented the barn house here in our subdivision and had a monster truck party and swimming after! He was excited about it all month!

Balloons taped to his door that fell on him when the door opened

 Loved it!

 For Alan's 30th birthday Chad and I decorated the house with balloons and signs so anytime we talked about Chad's birthday with him he would say he wanted balloons in the house like Dad's!

 

 

 Monster truck party

 Pizza and green (Lemon lime) kool aid

 Birthday cake!

 Cupcakes!

 Cousins!

 Gravedigger Pinata!

Candy!

 Opening presents

 Jeep from Mom and Dad

 The Loot!

Moving Dad and Mom

The last week in May Alan, Chad, Leah and I all packed up and drove out to California to pack up my dad and mom and make the big move to Arizona.  They decided to put their house up on the market when David and Lindsay moved into their home in Eastvale to see if they got any bites. The house was on the market maybe two weeks when a 80 yr old woman who's church is down the street on the corner wanted to move closer to her church. Escrow was 5 days and my parents were on their way to AZ. Luckily, the weekend prior to all this they had driven out for Katie's baptism and put money down on a house here by James and Megan. It all worked out perfectly.

We worked all weekend over Memorial Day and got 35 years packed up and moved into their new home in Arizona!

It was definitely sad to say goodbye to my childhood home but also exciting to have grandpa and grandma close to us in Arizona and finally retired!

California Home

 Packing up the garage (Holy Cow!)

 Throwing away socks! (My dad has numerous boxes of old socks he didn't want to part with!)

 Chad's ready!

 Whole U-haul for airplanes!

 

 

 My empty room

New Arizona home!

Mother's Day 2013

Best Mother's Day ever!

Preschool Graduation

Chad graduated from preschool on May 17th. It was such a cute program with lots of singing and hand motions. He loved Ms. Tiffany and his preschool friends and learned a lot! Thanks Ms. Tiffany for all your help!

 

"When I grow up I want to be...a dad."

 Receiving his diploma

 Ms. Tiffany and Chad

 Yay!

Brianna's 12th birthday

I was lucky enough to tag along with Sarah and Brianna on her 12th birthday to lunch and the mall to get Brianna's makeup professionally done.  I honestly cannot believe Nana is 12 years old and wearing make up! She was in heaven getting her make up professionally done!

 Finished Product

 Mom and Daughter

Rollerskating!

 Alan had a customer give him brand new roller skates years ago while talking about children when Chad was a baby and told him to keep them for him when he was bigger...well that day is here! We have had these roller skates in our garage waiting until Chad was big enough to use them. He was SO excited to give them a try! (and I can't believe he is big enough to use them!)