A day in San Diego

Since we won't be living in Cali forever we try to take advantage every chance we get to enjoy all there is to do while were here. Today we headed down the 5 for a day in San Diego. We walked all around Old Town San Diego then headed to Mission Beach for Bailey to play at the largest playground we have ever seen. There was so much for her to do, she couldn't stay put on one thing for longer than 20 seconds before something else caught her eye and she was off. Hope everyone is having an enjoyable Memorial Day weekend!

Bailey doing her crazy eyes

Silly girl pretending to lick her balloon flower

Middle of Old Town

Largest sucker ever

Climbing the spider web ropes

Bailey and Jeremy at the top of the castle

The next gold medalist??

Bailey has been taking gymnastics for almost 4 months now, and I'm starting to think it's something that she is really going to enjoy and want to stick with for awhile. Her favorite part of the class is by far the balance beam and the flipping around the "high" bar. Her last class I was able to take a few pictures of our future Olympian in action:)

High Bar

Balance Beam

Cartwheels

Climbing the wall for a handstand

Dino Park

Bailey and her Mommy & Me class took a field trip to Bailey's favorite park of all time, the Dinosaur Park in Laguna Hills. Bailey had a fun filled afternoon playing with her friends, hunting for dino eggs, and splashing around in the water.

Climbing up the large dinosaur

Bailey and Brooke showing off their dino hats

Skyler, Ryan, Bailey, Mara, and Kye

Weekend for First's

So last night we experienced our first earthquake after 4 years. I know it was going to happen eventually, but I still wasn't expecting it last night. It was a 5.0 that only lasted for about 10-15 seconds, but still the ground moved and that's just not normal!! Jeremy was home with Bailey reading a book and said the entire house started shaking. It really didn't phase Bailey at all she just asked, "What was that noise?" and carried on. I on the other hand was in my car leaving the gym and my entire car started rocking back and forth and I just looked at my friend and asked if her car was moving, then we realized it was an earthquake. After having a slight panic attack I was fine and came home just waiting to feel aftershocks, but thank goodness never did. As much as I love CA and the weather I think I rather deal with a tornado anytime over earthquakes, at least with a tornado you can get a warning to prepare and your not surprised when the ground beneath you starts to shake! Besides our first earthquake this weekend, Bailey also had a first; playing a new game called barbershop. Bailey and 2 of her friends Robin and Skyler decided to take turns playing barbershop. They each had a turn sitting on an upside down laundry basket(the barber's chair) getting new haircuts. You always hear about kids getting scissors and cutting their hair or someone elses but you never think that will be yours. Robin has a few chunks missing here and there, Skyler went from having no bangs ever to having her first bangs, and Bailey has bangs again only not so straight. We've been working so hard growing her bangs out and once again we will start over. Here's a few pics and I guess it really isn't that bad; I've seen much worse!

Camping Trip

Last weekend we took Bailey on her first camping trip with a few of our friends and their kids. Although we can hardly say we "roughed it" when there was a pool, showers, restroom, and a freeway 5 minutes away, all in all our first camping experience with Bailey was a success.We only stayed one full day and night, but Bailey was able to stay a busy bee all day and evening outside between fishing, swimming, making smores, exploring the area, singing campfire songs, and playing with her friends; she didn't miss her toys for a second and loved sleeping in a tent outside. Jeremy of course kept busy by fishing all day long, and I just kept up with Bailey. She's already asking when were going to camp outside again so I'm sure there will be a couple more camping trips in our near future.

Kye, Bailey, Skyler, and Ryan with their sticks they found for smores

Bailey relaxing in her new camping chair
Dinner time

Smashing her smore

Happy Mother's Day

Hope everyone enjoyed their Mother's Day today, I know I did!!! After recovering from our camping trip and taking an early afternoon nap, we spent the rest of the afternoon at the beach and then had a delicious dinner at a little Italian restaurant called Selma's. I thought I'd share what Jeremy and Bailey got me for Mother's Day. They managed to be sneaky at some point in the week and go paint ceramics at a little place in San Clemente called Fired Up. Bailey chose a spoon rest and a set of salt and pepper shakers to paint and she was even clever enough to paint one black for pepper.

Update....

It seems that our luck has run out with computers hence the no blogging in the last week or so. We had to have our main laptop serviced for a bad hard drive then the next day Jeremy's 9 year old laptop decided to quit working as well. You don't realize just how much you use and need a computer on a day to day basis until you don't have one. On top of our computer issues we are now potty training 2 dogs. Brody has gotten extremely jealous since bringing Hurley into our home, he now thinks it's okay to use the restroom wherever he wishes. After 4 years of having a potty trained dog it seems we are back at square one with 2 dogs now. We love having our new puppy but are ready for the puppy stage to be over with. Although it sounds like a bad week you can't really complain too much when you've spent the entire week hanging out at the beach. This past week has been absolutely perfect beach weather and we've taken full advantage of living near the beach. Here's a few new pictures I've taken of Bailey within the last couple of weeks. Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Riding her new scooter

Playing dress up with Baby Alive
Hurley being Hurley; chewing on everything

Bailey with her friend Kye

Firewoman Bailey

Time out for hugs

Soccer with the beach ball