California vacation - Week 1

Finally went through all 1137 pictures from our adventures in California. It's actually not THAT much, but it's hard to go through those when you're constantly being interrupted by kids haha.

The first week was spent at Nana and Papa's house. We got there Wednesday, March 27th at 7pm and Aunt Debbie and Johnny picked us up at the airport. I went back to the house with Aunt Debbie and the kids while Matt and Johnny went and got the rental car (our stuff wouldn't all fit in the rental car which is why we needed help getting everyone/everything to Nana's). The next day, Dad, Mom (Lucy), and Joey flew as well :)

Nana finally meeting Rose :) Rose's middle name is after her. 

Since we were in California, we had to take advantage of going to In-n-out (we didn't have one in Maryland and there isn't any in Hawaii). We ended up going four times total while in CA haha. One of the times we went just a chocolate shake and we let the kids have some.

Rose LOVED it!

While at Nana's, the kids got to play outside since the weather was nice. We went to two zoo's; Santa Barbara Zoo and San Diego Zoo. We celebrated Easter and the kids went to an Easter Egg hunt at a nearby park. Below are tons of pictures.

 Managed to get Rose's hair into a pony tail in the back. 

Too bad the hair in the front was still in her eyes lol

 Picking out what to play with first

 Isaac playing basket ball

 Rose wanting to play in the car

 Nana was pointing at Isaac, who had just bumped into Rose, 

and asked "do you have insurance??" hahaa!

 Nana pushing Rose 

 Isaac's turn!

 Papa talking to Rose

 Awe, her first basket!

 Going for another :)

Papa helping Rose down the step

 Isaac with his Uncle Joey

 Rose just lounging around

 Isaac and Joey snuggled into Aunt Debbi's bed, watching TV

 Joey showing Rose the dog outside. 

Rose is saying "dooooooog!"

 Nap time on Uncle Joey

 Isaac and Rose

 Nana with Rose

 Awe, tired baby girl

 At the Santa Barbara Zoo, Isaac looking at the penguins

 Watching the Meerkats

 Checking out the animals

 Rose looking at the flamingos

 Caleb, Grandma Lucy, and Rose

 Landon, our map reader

 Rosie

 Grandma Lucy and Grandpa Ed walking with Rose

 Rose holding Grandpa Ed's hand

 This is Inchworm Hill and kids would slide 

down it with cup up boxes. It was lots of fun!

 There goes Isaac!

 Isaac and Daddy going together, with Landon 'boarding' next to them

 Rose's turn!

 Almost at the bottom!

 She LOVED it!

 Isaac and Rose going together. I LOVE this picture of them!

 Close up of a very cute picture!

 Daddy with his kids

 Rose on the train

 Uncle Joey, Isaac, Uncle Steve, and Michael on the train ride

 In the tunnel and looking a little sleepy

Rose passed out on our way to the car, awe!

Nap time on Grandma Lucy now

 Kelsey and Rose

 Joey with Isaac. Yes, Isaac put his easter basket on his head like that. 

 Isaac, Landon, Caleb, and Rose

 Landon

 The four cousins. Rose was not having a good day that day

 Isaac and Rose with their baskets on their heads (Rose is still not amused)

 Checking out the eggs on the poles

 I was surprised at how long she kept that bow in her hair

Nana being silly!

 Playing with the pinwheel

 Joey, Michael, Johnny, Aunt Debbie and Uncle Steve

 Joey and Nana being silly now

 Joey, Michael, me, and Johnny. Missing Tommy for the cousins picture!

Michael, Johnny, Joey, Nana, Rose, and Papa

 Nana and Papa with Rose


Running out to the eggs

 He just kept running around and wouldn't pick up any eggs lol

Finally got him to pick an egg. This was the ONLY egg he got lol

 Silly boy

Joey with Isaac

Awe, tired out

Landon playing baseball


Landon giving Isaac batting tips

Isaac attempting to hit the ball

 Easter Egg coloring time!

 Rose got to drop an egg into the coloring too

Rub-a-dub-dub, four kids in the tub!


She carried around this orange for about an hour, calling it a 'ball' lol


Celebrating my 31st birthday! Isaac wanted to help me
blow out the candles.

Neat picture I thought!


Rose helping her Uncle Joey on his laptop

 Grandpa Ed with Rose

 Playing outside

 Rose's turn on the slide, with daddy's help

Oops!

Lets try this again...

 A little better!

Yay a good land!

 Happy girl

 Why is Joey trying to eat Abuela's face?? Ya, I dont know either..

Abuela and Joey

 Me and Rose on Easter

 Abuela and Nana

 Rose in her Easter outfit

 Shh don't tell her she has a bow in her hair!

 Nana, me, Abuela, and Joey

 Nana, me, Rose, and Abuela

 Nana, me, Isaac, and Abuela

 She found the bow, sigh!

 Being silly

Pretty girl

 Isaac in his Easter outfit, best picture I could get of him!

 Landon

 Kids opening up their Easter baskets

 Landon and Caleb with Aunt Debbie and Uncle Steve

Aunt Debbie, Uncle Steve, Caleb, Michael, Landon, and Kelsey

Rose and Caleb playing


Matt and I took the kids to the San Diego Zoo by ourselves one day :)


Isaac on the lion statue at the San Diego Zoo


Birds being released to and headed to the other side of the zoo to their perches.

 A cool shot of a bird in the air taken by Matt

 Rose looking at elephants

 Isaac wanted to see the "baby jaguar"... don't think it was a baby!

 Meerkat, how cute! TIMONE!

 On a helicopter

 Isaac peeking through the ice!

 Panda bear

 My cutie pie, Rose

My other cutie pie, Isaac

 Cheetah and his doggy friend. Apparently all the cheetahs
here are paired with a dog companion. Pretty neat.

 Isaac talking to the black panther

 Checking out the Rhino

 Matt with the kids. He's wearing his giraffe shirt and is by the giraffes :)

 Matt walking with Rose. She's looking a little sassy here haha!

 Ike checking out the chimps.

 Rose looking at the fishies.

Well, that's about it for now! I still more pictures, mostly from Disneyland, but that will be in another post in a couple of days. Stay tuned!