The Rest of our Vacation

Just got back from a WONDERFUL vacation on the beach for 2 weeks! It was sooo much fun! A lot of work (with 2 kids) and exhausting at times, but soooo worth it. I probably could've stay a couple more weeks. Here's a HEAP load of more pics.

Another day on the beach, Ty running in the waves.

Going on a walk with Grandpa.

Playing in the sand with cousin Braxton.

Uncle Kyle dug a nice little swimming pool for them to play in. He just had to keep diggin cuz it just kept getting washed out.

Dad burried Ty and Mads. Madix cracks us up. We told her "DON'T MOVE!" So she struck a pose and literally did not move for a couple minutes!

Here she is still "not moving"

Mads and Brax are best buddies and played so good together.

My 2 bathing beauty's.

Playing in the closet.




I love this picture! These 2 can be the best of friends and just hang together so good "sometimes".

Dave taking Ty boogie bording. She never really "wants" to go, but she does good and likes it afterwords.

She's gonna be our little surfer chick, just wait another year or 2 and Dave will have her on a surfboard.

Me and my Mads

It was fun to have my sister Kacey and fam there for a few days.

So.... Thurs. was our planned day to go to Disney Land and from the very begining the day didn't start out good. Mads fell (like she ALWAYS does) but I think she must have hit her head pretty good. So she was whining all morning. We get in the car she's still whining and crying a bit. We stop and get her some medicine and depate whether just to go home, but decided we already got everything ready and are on our way lets just go. Mads still crying "hold you, hold you", so I climb in the back and get her out of her car seat and she layed right down on me and fell asleep. (thinking, good she'll get a nice little nap in before we get to Disney Land (an hour drive)). We pull into the parking lot, Madix sits up on my lap, looks at me and it came PORING out! Yes puke EVERYWHERE!! She stopped for a sec, then a whole nother round, tons of it ALL over ME! Yes, I'm SOAKED with puke!! Dave FINALLY finds a place to pull over we all get out, do out best to clean up, then drive home:( So sad, and Ty sitting next to me not only almost puked just watching it but was so sad to not being going to Disney Land. Luckily we had an extra day to spare and went Fri. Pic is Madix stripped of all her pukey cloths, even though I got most of it.

Dave "trying" to clean out the puke that was everywhere.

Yay, we made it to Disney Land!! The girls were SOOOOO excited, Tyler could hardly stand it on the shuddle over.


They loved, loved seeing all the characters!

This was sooo random! We totally ran into Dave's sister who lives in Oregon and we had no clue she was even in California! What are the chances of us seeing her at Disney Land. The girls loved hanging out with them for a bit.

Riding the elephant. There were very few rides Tyler wasn't scared of. Any ride that was on tracks and went into the dark she was so scared of (Peter Pan, Mr. Toad, Alice, almost all of them) Mads wasn't scared of anything.


Probably the highlight of the day was meeting Mickey.

It's A Small World, definately one of the favorites. They both sang along.

Can't go to D.L. without getting a big sucker.

"Try mine Mads"

We told them they could pick out any toy. All Tyler wanted was a goofy hat and a balloon, and all Mads wanted was a phone. Oh if life could be that simple.


Waiting for the parade. It was an awesome parade. Ty got a hug from Poo, got to dance with Woody and got to hold a drum for the drummer. She must have been the cutest one there:)

Sat. we had one last day on the beach. My 2 goofy's

Dave built a great sand castle. It became Dora's castle.


Playing in the waves

Me and Dave even got to go boogie boarding together, so fun! Look how whimpy we are with our wetsuits.













What a great trip! Ty has said everyday that she misses California. Can't wait till next year.

SEA WORLD!!

In front of Sea World ready to go in with cousin Braxton. They were so excited!

This was one of the biggest highlights, the stuffed otter as we walked in! Tyler couldn't get enough of it, just kept hugging and smiling and waving at it.

This is in the Arctic, brrrrr. And they really do make it freazing in there. This is in an ice cave. The kids were too scared to go in by themselves so me and Kacey and to go in with them.

Getting ready to watch the Shamu show.

I think this was everyones favorite.

In the Shark Encounter, oooooooh scary. This is how Madix went through the whole thing, with her hand over her mouth:) She's so funny.

Elmos 4D movie, ofcourse Mads wouldn't keep the glasses on. So I think she was a little perplexed with the whole thing.

The day was a hit! Everyone loved it! Ty woke up the next morning at about 6 and first thing she said was "can we go to Sea World again?"
Good thing we could tell her, "no but we're going to Disney Land in a couple days!" Yay, we're off to DL tomorrow, I'M so excited!

Why Not Start Now

I'm gonna have a million pictures of our vacation so why not start now, just 2 days in. We're in Carlbad for 2 weeks and Tyler's so funny, she doesn't grasp the concept that we're in California. We kept telling her we're going to Cali., so we're driving, almost to the resort and Ty says, "are we to California yet?" I said, we're in Cali., and Ty says, "no we're not, we're driving." So... I've tried to explain but the only thing she gets is our resort room is "California". So anytime we've gone anywhere the last two days, beach, swimming, to eat. When we're done she says, "do we get to go back to California now?!"

first day on the beach. Ty loved it, Mads wasn't to sure. It took her a long time to get a little used to it, but would still cry every 15 minutes or so cause something bugged her.

she would play fine then a little water would splash up and that would be the end.

Gigi burried Tyler, she thought it was so cool.

I took this last night. Looking at Mads in that crib that she takes up the whole thing, I just can't believe where my baby went. They grow SOOOO fast.

going to look for sea shells

Madix kept picking up rocks and putting them in her bucket, then her bucket really started dragging on the ground, then she asked me to carry it:) She didn't understand we were just looking for shells.

Ty loved running in the water!


Mads loved running, just not so much in the water.




All cleaned up in their new Halloween PJ's. Look at this beautiful view of the ocean we get to look at all day long from our room.
Did I say I was on vacation?? Man 2 kids at the beach is A LOT of work!! Getting them all ready to go, then getting them and all the stuff to the beach, then off the beach and them all cleaned up. It's exhausting. Not that I'm complaining, I love being here but like my mom said, this is a trip for our family, not a vacation for me.
A lot more to come.