Sorry- it's huge

Our pool and Condo- for some reason these didn't transfer from my phone

Could you have a more beautiful view?


A little bit of Paradise. Jane models our beauteous locale.

Sawyer stepped off a step and over his head and then walked down the little gradual grade to over his head all in one day (a vigilant mommy rescued him both times) and it made him very leery the rest of the trip.
Our little Ellyn was swimming (yes, really swimming with occasional help from the bottom of the pool) all over the place. We had to be sure we were completely ready to leave for the pool before we put on Ellie's swimsuit because once we did it was "Go" time. I mean it, "Go, go, go, go," repeated over and over with growing frustration. Our girl was so awesome on this trip.

Our little Sadie mermaid. The girl was made for water.

Kenn and Barb- THANK YOU!!!!!

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Vacation, San Diego 2010

Last December Kenn offered to let us use their time share this year for Mike's fall break. All those months ago it seemed a long way off. Suddenly it is here and gone. But...we had a wonderful time in beautiful San Diego. Our week of Heaven. The entire purpose of this vacation was to have A VACATION. While we love going to Washington for every single break we get we come home exhausted. Trying to fit fun activities in with both of our families leaves us running a million miles an hour. Also, our kids are off with their cousins and we don't get that quality time with them that we crave.

This trip was perfect. We stayed at the Lawrence Welk Resort (I felt that maybe we should have been at least 50 before arrival but it all worked out). We spent our days alternating between activities in San Diego and just lounging around our condo and the pool. We ate sooo much; yummy treats, awesome Mexican food, sugar cereal (you know how I feel about sugar cereal). We packed lunches for our days out and about. We spent a day picnicking at Balboa Park and visiting the Mormon Battalion Museum and Old Town San Diego, a day at the San Diego Zoo, a day at Sea World, and the rest swimming. Marnie came up to spend the day with us on Tuesday, a swimming, game playing, eating day.

Along with our low maintenance trip, I did not worry overly about taking pictures. I knew, however, that I would REALLY regret none at all so we took a few.

Mormon Battalion Museum- Monday.

The pic they take there.
The family panning for gold, I had high hopes!
Jane finally doing some laundry!
Water, need we say more?


Sadie was chosen to dress in the Soldier Uniform.

San Diego Zoo- Wednesday. Mike had never been to the San Diego Zoo, neither had the three youngest. It is such an excellent zoo and I was so impressed with our kids' stamina throughout the entire day. Although we rented a wheelchair for Ellyn (she doesn't fit in the strollers anymore) she walked most of the day. We used it to spell off Sawyer and Sadie occasionally.

Sadie, a little nervous on the Sky Ride.

This baby gorilla and Sawyer played together for several minutes, it was darling.
Of course anything that involved water received Ellyn's complete attention.


Sea World- Thursday. The kids loved the entire day. You can only imagine how enthralled Ellyn was with all the water, how much the kids all loved the Dolphin, Sea Lion, and Shamu show, how absolutely great a day we had at Sea World.








The kids loved the rides right before we went to see SHAMU.


Sawyer being a shark after viewing the awesome shark exhibit.

What's Sea World without a pic of Shamu?