This past week was soooo much fun for our family! We spent 5 days in San Diego visiting family and we cannot wait to go back! We stayed with Rickey's Uncle Mark and his wife Dori, and their 3 kids who are all super close in age with our little ones. These kids did not go to sleep before 10:30pm every.single.night. we were there!!! They were just having too much fun for a regular bedtime and I must say, they loved every second of their past-bedttime shenanigans. ;)
We spent the 4th of July with them and they live in the most awesome block with neighbors that are super friendly. They even have a 20+ year tradition to shut down their street and do a pot-luck and the kids of the neighborhood put on a "bike parade" and they had yummy food and PLENTY of drinks for the whole neighborhood (even at nighttime they brought out HOT yummy coffee and baileys and other "adult additions" for coffee; that's my kind of party! ;)
Uncle Mark and Rickey are VERY competitive with each other so besides playing xbox games EVERY night, they played so many other games at the block party and watching them get so competitive was absolutely hilarious!!! From ping pong to bean sack toss (even a little indoor soccer!) they were at each other and even asked us wives to get in on the action and team up to do the water balloon toss game! (I ended up not playing with Rickey due to someone else wanting to play with him more but whatever...) it was still funny to see how competitive they got to even want to do a married team match against each other.
We also did 2 days in Sea World and oh.my.gosh. it was super fun!! The kids were loving every single second of the shows and we got to see Dolphins up close and put our hands in the water to touch them! We saw dolphins, penguins, polar bears, beluga whales, of course Shamu killer whales, sharks! Sea world has a few kiddy rides and a HUGE play structure and we spent plenty of time there too. it was a great time and even now at home the kids keep asking when we will go back and see the animals again.
Saturday we all had a chill day just hanging out in the backyard enjoying the sunny San Diego weather. We filled up the kid pool and while the kids swam the adults soaked up the sun, chatted up and sipped on grape soda vodka drinks :) yuummmmm! Alyssa and her oldest cousin Ryen put on a "tv show" and were crafting for hours to put it together.
Every night they all cuddled for bedtime story (read by Aunt Dori) and on the last night the two girls decided to read a story by themselves and it was SO sweet to see them take turns, each reading one page.
We absolutely enjoyed every day we spent and can't wait to go back.... lucky for us they are planning a trip up to the Bay Area in a few weeks since Aunt Dori also has family in SF and we will meet up with them again then.
I took WAYYYYYY too many picture but I'll try to not go too overboard posting them here... key word here is "try." So bare with me people.
4th of JULY slide show... yes there's lots of pics.. sorry I tried to cutdown but couldn't LOL
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