Friday, July 27, 2007

Family Vacation!

We had such a fun weekend in San Diego. It was pretty much our first "real" family vacation. Last summer Addi & I went to Portland for a week to visit Heather & the fam, but Jared wasn't able to come with us. We had such a blast and were able to see so many family members, it was great! We arrived on Saturday and met up with my parents to do some shopping along the beach. Then Heather, Jason and the kids got there so we all settled into our hotel rooms and took the kids swimming to get out some energy. Later on we had dinner and went to a nearby outlet mall. On Sunday we went to the GORGEOUS San Diego Temple in the morning to get some pictures, then headed off to the beach. We spent the afternoon and evening playing at the beach where we met up with more family (Grandma Martin, Aunt Debbie & Uncle Fritz, Cousin Kris and wife Charity with their adorable kiddos Kaleb & Alice, Aunt Josie & Sissy, hopefully I'm not forgetting anyone!) and had a BBQ. On Monday we spent all day at SeaWorld. It was so much fun and so nice to see even more family (Grandpa & Grandma van Rij, Aunt Julie and Brian & Alisha). I've got to say, Grandma and Grandpa are world class seat savers, they got us great seats at every show we went to! Then Tuesday we packed up, headed back to the beach to try for more family pictures and went home. I was sad to leave, it's always so hard to say goodbye to my family. We all get along so well and have so much fun together. I can't wait until we can all live by eachother, and I can't wait for our next family vacation (hopefully Nick can come next time!).

Our family at the San Diego Temple

The very serious cousins!
Blaise & Addi k-i-s-s-i-n-g!


Caiden, Addison & Blaise (too darn cute!)

Addi strikes a pose!

Grandma and her girls (Avery & Addison)

Heather in action! (Taking a picture of the temple)

The "A" team (Ali, Ava & Addi)


Grandma & Addison

Jared riding the waves!


Addison with Grandma & Grandpa

The family at SeaWorld.

The crazy kiddos!
Ava trying to escape!

The boys (Kaleb, Blaise & Caiden)

3 comments:

Heather said...

You got some cute ones! We will have to all exchange photos! I think that one you caught of me is HILARIOUS! What a dork I am!!

RC said...

YOU CAPTURED SOME GREAT PHOTOS. IT WAS SUCH AN AWESOME TRIP. WE HAD SO MUCH FUN HANGING OUT WITH EVERYONE. WE LOVED BEING ABLE TO SEE SO MANY FAMILY MEMBERS TOO. CAN'T WAIT TO DO IT AGAIN. THE ONLY THING THAT WOULD HAVE MADE IT MORE PERFECT IS IF NICK WERE THERE. FUN TIMES, GREAT MEMORIES.

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