San Diego 2009

San Diego was a BLAST this year! We stayed in a house right on the boardwalk and it was perfect for the girls. We had our own patio and a deck upstairs so there was plenty of room for Mackenzie to run around and not get too far. The girls slept like angels in a room together (I was most nervous about the sleepign arrangments). It was just a fun week, and so nice to get out fo the heat. We did the beach a coupl eof time but mostly hung out on our patio. We also did Sea World one day and Mackenzie LOVED it! I really believe she is going to be a huge animal lover! We saw the penquin exhibit so she got to finally "meet" her favorite character...HAPPY! (yes, his name is Mumble and the movie is Happy Feet, but she calls him happy). The Shamu show was great as always and we came home with the DVD as a souvineir which has been in the DVD player all week!!!




Messy after Grandpa let Kenz have a popsicle :)








Daddy getting Kaci to sleep at Dinner at Joe's Crab Shack

Mom & Kaci
Family Pic on the Boardwalk

Aunt Teisha, Mackenzie & Mommy getting some sun on our patio

Little Kaci bug, enjoying the shade

Ryan & Jen

Daddy & Mackenzie at

Sea World

Shamu Show, poor Kaci....she will appreciate more next year!

Mackenzie LOVED the Arctic Exhibit. We crawled through the Polar Bear Den and saw Beluga Whales and got to touch an ice wall. (it was a nice break from the heat too!)

Ryan and Kaci hanging out on the beach

Mackenzie thought it was fun to squat down in the sand then DIVE forward...she was a mess but refused to take her shoes off??

My happy little girl

Needless to say she was very excited about the ocean!

Happy 4th of July

Yesterday was a BUSY day!
Ryan got home at about 8am from working 48 hours.
We get ready and headed over to see Grandpa Rick and Uncle Jakey.
We played and ate an early lunch and then around 12:30 headed over to see Grandma Karla
and Larry. Mackenzie AND Kaci went swimming.
It was Kaci's forst time in the pool and she seemed to really like it.
She floated on her back and just let me carry her all over the pool and never made a peep!
Kenzie practiced her swimming (with tears of course).
She did very well, I was worried she would have already forgotten
since it had been a few weeks since swimming lessons but she picked it right back up.
After swimming we headed over to Uncle Chris' house where all of my family was going for a BBQ & more swimming.
This time I only took Mackenzie to the pool, while Kaci stayed inside with Daddy.
She practiced some more, with MUCH less tears this time.
I even threw her in twice and she turned and swam to the edge!
We BBQ'd and hung out until the girls were absolutly exhausted about 6:30pm.
They of course feel asleep on the way home
and we took Kenz right to bed since she had NO NAP!
Kaci was out by about 7:30 so what did we do?
We went to bed!
Yup, it was about 8pm when we got upstairs and when we were in bed ready to sleep we could still see the sun poking in through the blinds.
It was AWESOME!
Kaci woke up at 3:30 for a quick bottle and then the girls slept until 7:45 this morning!
YEAH!
I got almost 11 hours of sleep.
Ryan had to work again this morning and is doing another 48hours.
So, it will just be us girls for 2 days. My car got a flat tire yesterday and
Discount Tire isn't open today so we are home bound
until tomorrow when I can get a new tire...Oh well!
Hope everyone had a Happy 4th of July!

I am SO RUDE....

....but it wasn't on purpose! I was looking back through my blog at old pictures of the girls and just so happened to see the "comments" at the bottom of some posts! I never even realized that they were there so for everyone who left a comment, SO SORRY! I had to go back through my whole blog to read all the nice things people had written. Not to mention, a few of them said things like, "I will be in town this weekend, we should hang out", or "Call me". What a jerk! Well, now I know to look for comments AND I am super excited I can leave comments on other people's posts too! Now, I just need to figure out how to get a list of all my 'friends' on my page....Help, I am Blogger Moron!

The emotions of a Toddler & my happy Baby!

KACI IS SUCH A HAPPY BABY AND LOVES TO SIT AND WATCH HER BIG SISTER PLAY!

OH HOW FAST A TODDLER'S EMOTIONS CAN CHANGE! (these were all taken within about a 2 minute period and I couldn't even snap fast enough to get every face she was giving me)