California Vacation Day 3

Day 3 started with Mass at the beautiful parish in Old Town San Diego where my brother's family attends. We took a few photos outside after Mass.


We went back to Brice & Allison's for a quick lunch and then we were off on our own little road trip. Our first stop was the San Juan Capistrano Mission. Beautiful!


Gorgeous chapel


We all enjoyed the audio tour of the mission.


Kiddos enjoying the grounds



Steven did most of the photography here. Great job, honey!



There was a Zorro exhibit,
because I believe parts of the movie were filmed here.
Our little Zorro...

After our visit to the Mission, we got back on the road to our hotel in Anaheim.
The kids couldn't wait to get suited up and ready to swim!

Fun in the (heated) baby pool!


Enjoying the water slide!

Big and little boys having fun with the water spouts


The big bucket's water deluge!


And a quiet room with excited people ready for Disneyland the next day!

California Vacation Day 2

Saturday, Day 2, started out with some fun at the local park down the street. Steven Joseph was taking an early nap, so he missed out on this one. It was a cool and overcast day, but that didn't keep us from seeing some beautiful California beaches!



But he did wake up to do some serenading with the guitar on the stairway!



Then it was off to the beach! First we went to La Jolla.




Beached seals are quite the tourist attraction!





Then we went to Coronado Island, to the beach on the Navy base, where the kids enjoyed playing in the sand.

Great photo of my parents!








Steven Joseph was so cute, grabbing and dropping the sand through his hands as we walked back to the car. We're not used to nice soft sand like this!


Our last event of the day was going out to eat to a fish taco place nearby. Here are the sweet girls in the parking garage. Most of the weekend we had a boy car and girl car!

It was quite a fun-filled day!

California Vacation Day 1

We're slowly recovering from such a fun week in California! Steven went back to work today, and we'll start back to homeschooling and regular life at home without Daddy. I've been slowly editing and uploading the photos so the family can print them, so I'll just post a day at a time here on the blog. The computer is not cooperating all that well, but can you blame it? I'm trying to load 400+ photos to Walmart's website and create a blog post as well!

Here's Ellie bright and early ready for our 7:30am flight!


Steven Joseph sat by Steven and me. The girls sat by my mom. Lucky PaPa sat on another row! Ellie was quite the "gabber," talking throughout both the flights. She is actually the only one who didn't fly as a baby, so it was her first plane ride!


Here we are at the San Diego airport


After going downstairs to meet Brice & Allison!


Take a look at the stroller '0 carseats! I'm sure we looked like quite the travelers with the kids and all our gear. One lady did make a comment to another traveler on the airplane, thinking I couldn't hear, about how the kids were cute and I was pregnant too...even though I already had "my boy!"


The first afternoon we went to check out the Navy base where Brice works


Here he's showing us some of the ships


And that was all the excitement of Friday! Stay tuned for the beach day next!