Sunday, April 20, 2008

California Here I Come... Right Back Where I Started From

California At Grandpa's and Grandma's Rocked!This is how Mommy felt before the Vacation!
Grandma and pa Nut spoiled all of us! Each of us had a favorite part of the vacation. Mine was the no cooking or cleaning for an entire week! That was all the RECREATION I needed!
With that said, I want to apologize for not knowing how to do a slide show of pictures. I tend to get camera happy on any kind of fun outing! This could almost be a video because there are so many pictures. One day you will thank me for being the family historian of all your childhood memories I tell you! Now SMILE!!!
Some of the things we did on this trip could have easily been enjoyed anywhere but EVERYTHING is more fun when your at Grandma and pa Nut's house!
Chillin and Relaxin!

Holding Blakey By The Pool!
We shopped for new clothes!Here are the girls posing in their new outfits!
Jump Rope is Even Better at Grandmas!
Cecily spent hours playing with grandma's dolls every morning! And Gare Bear played with the kitchen stuff and action figures! The older kids played board games in the morning instead of turning on the TV!!! We even had a few games of hide and seek!
We visited a fun park one afternoon!
Here is Garrett Diggin!

The Best Part For ALL Of Us Was Spending Time With Grandpa and Grandma!
Grandma and Grandpa entertaining us with a game!

Grandpa Playing With Baby Blake!
Grandpa thought Blake was so Tiny!


Garrett thought Grandpa's Hat was really Cool! One morning when Grandpa was upstairs Garrett put it on. We informed him that even though Grandpa's hat was really cool NO ONE is allowed to touch Grandpa's special hat! (ha ha )


What Was the Most Special Part of this Vacation?
Being With Grandma Nut For Her 65th Birthday!
This was Grandma's Birthday Breakfast!
She didn't really want this blogged so I put it in a little format.

Grandpa took us to Chilli's for the Birthday dinner! Then we came home and had birthday cheese cake and sang Happy Birthday! (Ryan was on the phone for the song!)

We Love, Love, Love Our Grandma Nut!!!!!
We had fun in the pool! It never got hotter then about 85 degrees but the kids loved the pool!!! They swam almost every day for a few hours!






The first day they swam it was mid 70's.
This is Cecily adjusting to the pool temperature. BRRRRRRR!
Muscle Men!

Dawson is our Goof Ball!


Grandma Treated us To The Train Museum!

Garrett Loves Trains!!!!!! We met an engineer!

This was a china set in the dinning car. There were a whole bunch of fun sets to look at.

We enjoyed Lots of different trains!


This was the mail car train
Dawson's Train!

Cecily's Train!


Trains, trains and more trains!

Grandma is teaching about the trains!

We are watching Garrett play with his favorite Thomas the Train!




Garrett's day couldn't have been more perfect! Because as we were leaving there right in front of the museum was a real fire truck with real fire fighters in it. Garrett's three favorite things are trains, fire trucks and motor cycles. Garrett runs over to the truck and tells the fire fighter that he is going to be a fire fighter when he grows up! This made the fireman so happy that he invited Garrett to jump in the fire truck! The fire fighters laughed about how their fire truck was better then the trains! Notice also that Garrett found a motor cycle in one of the shops to buy! Yes it was Garrett's perfect day!



We had a fun time shopping, walking and eating our way around Old Town Sacramento!







No Dawson, You Can't Have a Tattoo!

Garrett Is So Cool!

Looking Lovely With Cecily's New FANCY Umbrella!
Cecily loves ANYTHING she thinks is fancy!
She is our Fancy Nancy!



We stopped by Mommy's and Daddy's Oakland Temple! Before getting back on the plane to go home we enjoyed the beautiful Oakland temple!It was such a perfect sunny day! The kids ate lunch and walked around the grounds.







Families Are Forever!

4 comments:

G and G Nut said...

You missed the MOST IMPORTANT part and I know Dawson will agree - watching all of Season One and Season Two of The Office!
What a fun week it was!!
xoxo

Jessica said...

I am DYING over how lovely that looks. I'm so glad you got to go.

Brooke said...

I'm soo jealous!! What a BlAST!!

bloggingchristy said...

That was such a cute blog, you guys had so much fun!! We loved the train museum when we went!! You guys are so much fun, we can't wait to see you again.