San Diego- Day 1

Wahoo!! We made it! I hadn't originally planned on blogging while we were here. But Macie is asleep for the night, and Emery is reading books, and it's really quiet, but only about 9:00. So I figured why not get a little head start! I know if I leave all of these pictures to do through and blog until we get home, it will take me for. ev. er. So even though it is just a few pictures, I want to get a head start on it! Plus, right now every thing is fresh in my memory ;)

So we decided back in January that before this 3rd baby came, we really wanted a vacation. We originally had a trip to Cabo San Lucas booked for just Jake and I for this April, but with this new baby it just wasn't going to work out for us to use it. So we sold it to someone else. But we knew we needed a vacation to somewhere. Jake has never been to Southern California, and it is one of my families very favorite vacation spots so we decided that was the place! Warm and Beaches were my only stipulations, so San Diego fit the bill. We invited my mom and dad and Shayli to come, since we were going to go over Spring Break, but unfortunately my dad couldn't take off work...So we just decided to go with just us. But that's okay! So we left to San Diego on Tuesday the 25th. Jake went to work, then came home a little early, we packed up the car and headed out!

The first leg of our drive was short, just to Manti to stay with my grandparents. It shaved off about 3 hours of the drive we would have to do the next day. We got there Tuesday night, and then got up at 4 and left on Wednesday morning! We drove straight to St. George and stopped for a few minutes to stretch our legs and do potty breaks. That was probably the best part of the drive since the girls slept that whole time. It was super nice. Then we drove the 1 1/2 hours to Las Vegas and stopped again for the girls to stretch their legs and also to get gas. For the next couple hours there it was a lot slower moving. The girls were sooo tired of being in their seats, but we still had about 5 hours left. We made a few stops to let them at least get out of their seats. Plus many potty breaks along the side of the road for Emery....Over all they were actually really good. As good as you can expect a 2 1/2 year old and an 8 month old to be on a 9 hour drive. There was a lot of whining...and fighting...and crying...but I expected that. It's a long time to expect them to just sit there! We kept Emery busy with movies on the DVD player, books, lots and lots of coloring, and toys. Unfortunately though, it seems that Emery may have inherited my Dad and I's terrible car sickness...because once when I turned off the DVD player and just gave her some coloring books to color, she got really sick and threw up...poor girl. Luckily she had only been eating bananas and grapes all morning so it wasn't too gross. But it did make a mess, and not a fun one to clean up in the middle of nowhere on the side of the freeway! But we got it all cleaned up, her and I in new clothes and we were off again. We made it to San Diego at about 3:00 in the afternoon. Some how right on schedule...I think Jake must be a fast driver!

We checked into our hotel, and got changed to go to the beach. Emery has been begging for weeks to go to the beach. She has seen the beach toys that I bought her sitting in my room and begs and begs. So all day while we were driving she kept asking "Emmy go to beach?" I kept explaining that yes we were going, but it was going to take a while to get there! But she didn't understand. But once we were at the hotel and getting ready to go she was so excited! It was a cloudy day in San Diego, and had been raining earlier that day, so it was a little chilly when we first got there, but after a little while it warmed up. Emery was pretty scared of the waves coming in. She would only go to the water if you would hold her hand at least. She was mostly content to just play in the sand. She is in love with the toys I got her. We mostly held Macie, I did put her down once, and just like I thought she started stuffing handfuls of sand in her mouth...so she had to get picked up again. We stayed for quite a while, until the sun was starting to go down and it was getting cold. Emery was wet too so she was getting really cold. She was really sad to leave, but after I promised her we would come back another day she was okay. We headed back to the hotel to give baths and order in some dinner. We were all so tired from the long drive and the early morning. We did not want to even begin to wrestle kids to hold still in restaurant! It ended up working out perfectly. 

Next up Sea World and Shamu! The part Emery is most excited for. Can't wait!