San Diego Vaca Part 1

Here are the first set of pictures from our vacation to San Diego July 8 - July 12th, 2009. We stayed at the Sheraton at Harbor Island. The first pictures are ALL from our hotel balcony....at different times of the day. From our balcony we could see downtown, the Coronado bridge, Harbor Island and all the boats, and the airplanes at the airport taking off and landing. ( my favorite part ) The second are our trip to Sea World.

If you look closely above, you can see the airplane coming in to land.

Some of the best memories of this trip for us were made on the balcony hanging out!

Sea World---the play area

Somersault!

Lucy made a friend!

First time eating cotton candy!

"What IS this stuff?????"

Getting ready to watch the 4D Sesame Street show!

"We're ready mom!!!"

My smily girl!

I just love this pictures! She is such a doll!!! Always so happy!

Update and water play

Well I have been super bad at posting, mainly because I got a new job!!! Mainly everyone knows by now, in fact I have been there for two weeks already! I am an editor for Teacher Created Materials, Publishing. It has been very different, kind of a hard adjustment, mainly because I am sitting down for 8 hours reading A LOT of text! But I am getting used to it, and there are actually a lot of perks.
#1 they have a starbucks machine that makes hot cocoa, or regular or decaf coffee
#2 they have a HUGE assortment of free ice cream ( Snickers bars, cookie sandwhiches, three different types of haggen dazs ( dont know how to spell it) bars, drumsticks, healthy choice bars, weight watcher bars---you name it they have it!
#3 they pay for a portion of Lucy's daycare
#4 not bringing stuff home at the end of everyday
#5 they gave me a choice of doing whatever 8 hours i want to do between 6am-6pm so I am doing 7am-330pm.
#6 when you are sick ( like i am today and was yesterday--all you do is call in --no sub plans!!!)
Right now I am working on a project that is a physics book for 3rd-5th grade---it actually is very fun!!
Right before I had to start working we took a family vacation to San Diego since we knew that I would be getting into work with no breaks anytime soon. I will post pictures of San Diego today. This week, we have been hanging out with Troy's brother Kyle and his wife Crystal and their son Trey this past week. I will post pictures of that too! I have sooo many pictures to post, and I intend on spending some time while sick today doing it. The following pictures are actually from quite a while ago but I had to post them! My friend Cherie came down with her 9 month old Riley and we went to Mission Viejo Lake. It was so much fun!

"Hi Friend!"

Lucy LOVED Riley's sand toys!

Once again, Lucy making her cheesy smile !!

4th of July

We had the best 4th of July this year! We hung out with our friends The Paino's and stayed local and made it a great day! In the morning we went to the Huntington Beach Parade. We only watched about half of it. We were in the direct sun the entire time, and that mixed with a crowd that you can't move around in, made me even hotter!! So we left before we started to get really miserable. It was a huge parade though, and Lucy loved it! We then came back to our house, Lucy and Travis napped, then the daddys took the girls swimming, we BBQ'd, then went to Flojo park by our house and watched the fireworks. All of the kids did great, and that made the parents extra happy! Thank you Paino Family for coming down and sharing this special day with us! Oh! and by the way, We DID NOT plan the girls outfits! We just really have a lot in common! It's really funny actually! Guess that is why we are friends!

My attempt at a 4th of July dessert!

Thank you Joe for this family picture!

Right at Main and PCH where we stood to watch the parade.

It was a BIT hot!

Watching the parade from a higher point of view!

When Lucy woke up, Sammy wanted to give her a hug....but Lucy wasn't yet that into it.

Exploring!

Now Lucy was ready to hug!

So I went out with Tawny's nice camera to take pics of the girls and dads at the pool, and her camera died! This was the only one I got...on their way back...with our camera.

Lucy's famous close your eyes pose! She has been closing her eyes a ton lately! Like in the pool, you name it! And laughing all the while!

Spinning and dancing with Daddy!

The girls both attempting to do sommersaults! Well Lucy attempted and Sammy was doing them!

One of the better attempts at a Paino Family picture :)
We loved taking pictures of the girls!

I LOVE this one of Lucy! Thank you Joe!
Mommas and Friends!