San Diego Family Trip!!!!

I have to start by saying .............. this was 4 of the best days I've ever had!!! I LOVE my little family so much. The kids were GREAT!! Probably because we were so busy and having so much fun their was no time for teasing or fighting =)   Well a few weeks before the trip I thought "this would be a great time to teach them about capitalism and paying tithing".  So we thought of a way the kids could make some money for their trip. We came up with selling sugar free Strawberry freezer jam.

 The kids did help make it and we sold it to our family and friends. Thanks to everyone who supported us. It was a great time and the kids made $30 bucks each, after paying for supplies and tithing of course.

Now on to the trip. We seriously had been looking forward to this week all summer long! We left Monday morning around 10am or so and headed straight for the Ocean. =) We got there around 4:00pm and wanted to put our feet in the sand. Then find some dinner, we were hungry.

After we got dinner and unpacked we wanted to get some shut eye because the next day was Sea World.  They kids got to pick where we  went and Ryker convinced Millie that Sea World would be so much fun. He really wanted to see the sharks.  Here is the kids getting ready to go into a new exhibit, the Turtle Reef. It was really neat! Tons of sea turtles big and small.  

Classic Ryker always planning the next route on the map.

Sky buckets are like my favorite things ever!!

One of my favorite pictures of Rigdon. He was the BEST baby EVER!!! The other 2 were not this easy to travel with. The kid didn't cry once. He was happy doing whatever we were doing. He even fell asleep in the stroller. My other 2 NEVER did that!!! He is just so stinkin cute!

We were there from 9am till 10pm and the kids were amazing!! We watched the Samu Rocks night show and it was really fun.  Seriously Rigdon sat on our laps during every show and didn't try to wiggle away. 

We got back to the hotel and the kids crashed.

Day Two we got up and headed to the beach. A ward friend told us to go to Coronado's beach so I thought we would give it a try and I'm so glad we did. Such a nice beach and not crowded at all. Once again Rigdon was perfect and loved just sitting on the huge towel and would crawl to the edge to run his fingers in the sand but he never left the towel.

Ryker didn't waste anytime, he ran right out there and dived right in =)

Amelia was having fun filling up the buckets with water than playing with the wet sand.

Once again, I NEVER have had a kid do this but I gave him a bottle and he fell asleep on the towel and took like an hour or 2 nap. I enjoyed lying on the towel with him and watched Ryker, Millie and Shaun build sand castles. It was relaxing and perfect.

We left the beach around 3 in the afternoon, got some lunch, then to the hotel for baths and then drove over to Seaport Village. One of my favorite places to go because I grew up going here. My grandma use to live in San Diego so I have some very fond memories of this place.  And yes if you haven't notice my kids always match. Well the boys have identical shirts and Millie has a matching outfit to go along with their color scheme. Yes call me weird but matching and planning outfits it like one of my favorite things to do!!

They were hoping to go on a tour of this Battleship but the tours closed at 4 and we were to late. Next time boys.

But I did get some fudge from the fudge shop I ALWAYS go to here and the kids rode the very old and sort of creepy carousel.

I told you something funny happened on this trip.  If they are touching each other it is usually hitting or kicking. So I had to capture this rare moment =)

After Seaport Village, we headed back to the hotel to drop off me, Millie and Rigdon. A few weeks before our trip Shaun realized that the Diamond backs were going to be in SD playing the Padres while we were in SD, so of course he wanted to go to the game. He and Ryker had the best time and they said it was so weird cheering when everyone else was Booing. I'm so glad it worked out for them to go.

Our last day in Cali, we went to Sea World to finish seeing and doing the stuff we didn't get to do on Tuesday.  The weather was perfect the whole time we were there.

Cute kids, poor Riggy got sun screen in his eye so he had a red eye for awhile =(

We left the park at 4pm to get on the road to head back to hot Arizona. It really was a great trip and many wonderful memories were made. Vacations with the family are the best thing in the world. They are worth ever penny!