Memorial Day Getaway

We traveled out of town to Orange County this past weekend for a day in the sun. Lawsyn went swimming for the first time and even went underwater.  Kali splashed around but hated getting her hair and face wet. Needless to say, Matt dunked her before she got out of the pool.

We also couldn't leave without a trip to Downtown Disney. We finally convinced ourselves to have the kids sit for their caricature portraits. It ended up being really cute.  Lawsyn was Buzz Lightyear and Kali was Queen Elsa from Frozen. Kali got a blue Elsa shirt and refuses to remove it.

Birthday Getaway

We hope all you mamas out there had a great Mother's Day. We celebrated Kalista's birthday in the same weekend.  

Kalista enjoyed opening a few gifts.  She received a few books, stickers, clothes and Yo Gabba Gabba items. Thank you so much for the birthday presents!!!!

Thanks to Auntie Kimmie, Kalista loves putting stickers on her face and feet.  It's like a sticker pox outbreak has taken place.

Matt's parents came into town and we whisked away to Newport Beach for a weekend getaway. We stayed near the Pelican Hill Resort at one of the Marriott Villas.  We were greeted with towel animals on our beds.  We had a very plump turtle awaiting us.  Very nice!!!

We had a wonderful brunch in Laguna Beach at a french bakery/restaurant.  We had some fabulous sweets. Kalista had a yummy red velvet birthday cake, but only ate the white chocolate flakes off the top of it.  However, she used the star shaped sugar cookie to dig into the cake itself.  She doesn't like to get her hands dirty.

We spent the part of the afternoon hanging out at the Villas and enjoying all the cool events on the property.

 The ponds had some humongous Koi fish

 Kali could not get enough of the mini putt putt golf

We spent the other part of the afternoon enjoying Downtown Disney. Yahoo!!!  Gotta love the Lego store.  It's amazing how elaborate those Lego sculptures look.

Aww...Beauty and the Beast

Lego-fied Aladdiin, Princess Jasmine and The Genie

Weekend Getaway

We just got to Anaheim. It's about 10 pm and we are starving since we didn't get our nosh on before we left. Ironic how we're staying right next to Disneyland, yet we aren't here to visit the "Happiest Place On Earth". We are actually up here for our cousin's wedding banquet. Yes....we have a lot of cousins.

Kalista is still in a deep sleep ever since we left San Diego. She travels very well by car. It will be very interesting to see how she does in an airplane. Maybe we will wait for a bit, since we don't want to be the family with the crying kid. She can't quite do the secret trick all parents seem to know about....taking the bottle while ascending and descending.

Let's recap:
During our mini weekend excursion, Jen got a chance to meet up with her old college roomie. We had a great breakfast with Karin and her family, including her parents. They were Jen's "parents" when she was at UC San Diego for school, so it was great being able to spend time with them again.

Although we didn't make it inside Disneyland, we at least stopped by Downtown Disney. Nothing is as magical as the Disney holiday spirit and those yum yum beignets from the Jazz Kitchen. Mmmmmm!!!

At last, we ended the day with our cousin's wedding banquet. Jana and Brian are such a cute couple! We had a great time and Kalista was finally able to meet a lot of relatives on Matt's side of the family that live in southern California.

As easy as it was to get away from San Diego...we came back in less than 48 hours. What a trip!