San Diego Trip Part 1

 We took a weeklong vacation in San Diego; we've been saving up for the vacation for five years! I had all these grand plans and visions in my head as to how this was going to be, but of course, you also have to plan for bumps in the road and we had bumps--quite a few, but it did not stop us from having fun. First, I made a cardboard "map" to hang up in the car with a moving car so the kids could see where we were and how close we were getting to our destination without having to constantly ask "Are we there yet? How much longer? etc..." We drove the whole 12 hours in one day so we could just travel and sleep the first day so we'd be ready for the next day full of fun. We saw Zzyzx Road!

Lucas found a huge Angel trumpet flower. I had to tell him those are highly poisonous, but they smell amazing.

We went to a really cool 50s diner for dinner one night.

Monday was our zoo day. The whole week turned out to be cloudy and cold. Monday was probably the best day to be out. This zoo was amazing! They had so many animals and places for kids to play on several different playsets and a splash pad. We got to see the pandas! and Lucas had to get a backside shot of the gorillas. 

Grayson bought himself a jawbreaker sucker and licked it to the very center to see how many layer there were. Last he counted there were 19.

Poor Zander had a rough night. He got sick with the flu the week before our trip and that turned into a double ear infection. I took him to the urgent care near by to get him some meds so he could try to enjoy his time at Legoland. He has been looking forward to this for a very long time. 

Tuesday was Legoland

Syracuse Temple Open House

 

Memorial Day in Elba

 We started another big project at the Elba cabin Memorial Day weekend. I actually look forward to working with my family every year. I brought my hat and work gloves with me. Brad planned out the new wall that we started building on the backside of the cabin. We got about half way done minus the stairs that need to be put in. The kids played outside adding to their forts and driving the the four wheelers around. We played games and enjoyed each other's company. We also had a graduation party for Tyson and Devin. We went skeet shooting and Joseph wrote a poem about Devin that Trish read aloud to everyone. Joseph couldn't make it; he took Quentin to Las Vegas for a basketball camp. Tyson decided last minute not to come either. Can't say I wasn't disappointed, but we had fun nonetheless. We also took up our new gel guns so the kids could have wars in the pasture. I think they used up around 75,000 bullets, lol.

Monday we went on an adult ride with some of Sally's family, Wade and Vernae, and Adam and Lynnette also came up. There was still a lot of snow in the mountains so we didn't get too far on our trail. We went up towards Logger Springs in the City of Rocks.