Thanksgiving Trip

We had a wonderful trip to Redding to visit with cousins over Thanksgiving weekend. Good food, good company, fun adventures. It was a lovely little get away for a couple nights.

We went for a night walk to see the crazy house that runs lights to music and even happened to catch the man coming home so he gave the kids candy canes. Sorry for the creepy eyes and blurry, just tried to snap a quick shot and it wasn't so good

We went to the Sundial Bridge and then headed into Turtle Bay. We saw some cool exhibits, animals, played a great playground and got to feed the parrots.

View of the Sundial above and then a view off the bridge below

Cousins Sally and Rich and Gavin joined my 3 kiddos

WA Trip in May

We drove to WA for a quick week trip to visit family and friends while the kids were off track.

Beach-combing at Auntie Jenny's (while she and uncle were out of the country)

My collector

Jaydon takes after G-pa, hitting rocks on the beach

Going out for ice cream!

Getting to see Brenna and Caedan!

Spending some time with Bob and Mary

Lucy lost a tooth! She wrote the toothfairy a note and even got a response.

AZ Trip #3

The last day in AZ took us to a family brunch at my sister's house where the cousins got to play, a Mariners game in Peoria, and then we started the drive home to CA. It was a great, quick trip but we crammed a lot in!

Lucy rode a horse while waiting for our food at a late pit stop.

Go M's! The bummer was that we had two kids with low fevers and one kid who had been rocking a decent cold so no one felt great and the sun was hot. We didn't last the whole game and poor Jaydon - two times we have made it to an M's spring training game and it is two times he has been sick and not able to really enjoy it!

The three kids getting ready for another two days of 6-8 hrs in the car. They do really well.

We recreated a cousin photo from March of 2016. We didn't do outfits or anything but enjoyed getting the kids lined up on the couch in a similar way.

Throwback - the pic taken in 2016.

AZ Trip #2

The main reason for our visit to AZ was to see the wedding of Cousin Fly to Jason. It was an amazing wedding at a butterfly garden and was absolutely Fly's style. Perfect wedding celebrating a fun couple.

The family with Kathleen.

Cousin Dom with his greeting duties, Jaydon joined in for a bit.

Cousin Dom walking Tozzie down the aisle

Cousins Paul and Emily

More cousins

Fly

The vows, the speeches, the kiss... it was perfect!

Mr. and Mrs.

The Alecu crew!

Granny and Lucy

Some family pics

Exploring the butterfly garden

It was hot inside, the boys decided they would rather hang outside.

The butterfly's liked Uncle Bob

 Kate went exploring the park with Dad for awhile.

Kate didn't want to have to be done dancing with the bride and groom! She was very into the dancing and hanging with the 'big kids'