The Lawrences: cali

Cali vacay....Day 4

more pics! sorry, it's the last vacay post, i promise!

Funny thou, this wasn't our last day in Cali! This all happened on Saturday and we didn't leave til monday. oops. guess I didn't take anymore pics.....or my battery died and i can't find my charger.

We headed to Huntington Beach. Aunt Rayma and Uncle Wayne are the YSA coordinators and stake reps... they had their YSA regional beach party. So we tagged along. We are YSA program success stories. lol.

k had so much fun walking around on the beach!

she loves it. no shoes either! atta girl!

daddy would carry her for a bit thou, she's kind of slow....or just goes on her own little pace. i call it lali-gagging.

i love this pic. they're so cute together. Miss K loves her daddy!

amber's cute belly! she's like 26 weeks here :)

with uncle wayne

k is just excited.

she would stay in the sand but run back and forth to me and amber, who only got our toes wet. lol! it was coold!

she would come up say "alright, alright mommy?" and once i said yes, she would run away back to her sand pit where she was safe. then do it all over again. lol. she had to make sure those waves weren't taking us away. lol!

her sand pit. someone had dug a hole and she stole it.

they weren't there anymore, i swear. lol

loving it!

the men had more fun in the water. they got tossed a few times on their adventures.

Jared even hit his head on some rocks! yikes! but he was okay!

At about 2 we left, got k cleaned up and in the car. we were going to walk to boardwalk and maybe buy something. but she fell right to sleep in the 5-10 min drive there! lol. so a detour to wal-mart and drive back down to Oceanside to have dinner with my brother and jonathan.

We went to Rockin' Baja Coastal Cantina.

I love this place. years ago i took jon there with my good friend fernanda and her daughter, jade, when we went to Disneyland and I got to go thru the san diego temple.

It was still as good as i remembered it. the location was a different one, but the food was still good. I got my fish taco i had been craving, k got to eat some crabs. that child was eating everything. even stole some of jons chicken. lol.

On sunday we went to church (all 3 hours! pretty good for being on vacay!) Then all the families in the area, all of aunt rayma and uncle wayne's kids that live in cali came by for a BBQ. it was yummy. amber and i made cupcakes. Mine were better, just saying. lol. then we played scattergories! lol!! that was nothing but laughs!

The next morning we left and had THE LONGEST drive EVER. oh my. i hated it.

it was worse than driving across country. seriously. I was never SOOOO happy to be back at amber's house. Then the next day we took the 4.5 hour drive home. ugh. not cool. we were SOO glad to be home!! it took a lot out of us and we needed lots of recovery from it.

But alll well worth it! :)

Cali vacay....Day 3

oh my...lots of pics this post.....

So we headed to Oceanside this time for the beach.

another long drive.

k was always in the sand.

the boys had some fun with the wakeboards.

they definitely needed the rash guards.

they came back all red an nipple chaffed. lol.

my brother, james and Jonathan came over from Yuma for a visit!

oh....and ambs and i got pedicures before we left!

hooray for cute toes that i don't have to hide in the sand

my beach art as i walked on the beach with my hubby!

we ran into this "river" type thingy. on high tide it's very wide and goes far into the land.

so it was low tide and it was not so wide and deep.

plus...it was warm water!!

niiice.

it would have been a great place for k since she won't get in the water.

but we ran into j & a with miss k on our way back....so we turned around to show them.

k ran the whole way. she loves running on the beach.

it's so funny too.

and she's in the water!!!

sucess!

it was awesome. she kept talking about walking in the river

cuute!

then, we got back to the ocean part. and she still stayed in the water!

awesome!

she had some fun.

and we got some good pics!

we had our rock/shell collecting bucket.

notice all the sand on the girl's face?

my fav pic of the day!!

after getting home we ate some yummy pizza and hung out for a little bit.

by 10 we were spent! we went to bed soo early. lol.

Cali Vacay....Day 2

So we decided to head to Corona del Mar for our beach adventure

it took like an hour to get there.

no lie.

the driving was my least favorite part of the trip.

seriously. i get carsick. it's NO fun!

I tried the sea bands. no help :(

so i just tried to fall asleep on every drive.

makes me no fun. but oh well.

as soon as we get there, k busts out her tools and gets to work!

we were camped out next to a day camp.

they were a fun bunch of little kids to watch.

I took up a spot in the sand and put my toes in.....disregard the piggies and chip job. sorry, i didn't have time to get a pedi!

it was overcast and cold.

the men didn't care and got right in!

they crazy!

amber and i took a seat....she even got all bundled up in a towel. seriously it was cold there.

typical. that's how i remember so. cal being.

we finally convinced k to put on her suit (she didn't want to stop playing!)

the started building castles

they finally came in after a bit.

should have gotten rash guards.

drew decided to bury himself saying, "Why am I burying myself? Shouldn't someone be burying me instead?"

lol. yes. but i'm not getting up.

finally k decided to help out. she didn't get very far.

then they decided they needed to wet the sand to make a legit castle.

k didn't want to go in the water though. lol.

she put the bucket upside down to trap the water! lol it was cute!

he hearts me!

miss sandy hands.

she got sand EVERYWHERE!

always on me. of course. lol.

we went for a walk to collect shells

and there was a wedding down at the end of the beach....i wanted to be nosy. lol!

such a pretty beach.

they played and played.

then we left....we got there at like 10ish? and left about 12-1230.

I'm sure the sun would have burned off the clouds some if we waited, but we just went back.

amber and I laid out in the backyard when we got back. we couldn't feel so defeated. lol.

CAli vacay....Day 1

After a semi-long about 8 hour drive to cali...we made it!

we stayed at jared's aunt and uncle's house. It was SO nice of them to house us like that.

we hung out that night, played some games, ate some great food and got prepared for our adventures the next day...

we went walking down the star sidewalk!

there were lots of people.

then we stopped at the chinese theatre and saw the hand/footprints of the stars.

k couldn't quite get her's to fit into shirley temples. lol

pic of john wayne for drew's grandpa!

The Harry Potter cast!! YES! it includes their wands. seriously!

my hand is the exact same size as hermionie's.....(emma watson to be precise)

saw the roosevelt hotel....it's like riiight across the street.

our family shot....nice face on drew :/ best we could get thou!

us at the mall....can you see the TINY unfocused HOLLYWOOD sign in the background?? yeah i know... my face here? I'm actually pissed because I told this lady to go by so she didn't have to wait for us to take our pic....and she wasn't staring at me the whole time. ugh. hate that. but no she refused. so i felt rushed and was already irritable.

Jared and Amber...and the bit of the baby bump!

then we went down to the LA temple. We have a good friend who is serving a mission there in the LA visitor center area. We thought maybe we could run into her and say hi, give a hug. but nope.... so sad. we did leave a note for her. That was cool. I miss my Hermana Schumacher!