California April 2013

We had a last minute, quick trip to california the first weekend of  april. Mollie got home off her mission on a wednesday and then the next Joel, Suzy, Mollie, Abbee, & Kate flew out to California to see Zach and ME. We decided to drive out and spend a quick weekend with them. EJ was luck enough to fly out there with Grammy & Gramp. We tried to get as much beach in as possible in the short time we were there. EJ had a blast playing with Layla and Alix and she and Macsen even got along pretty well. She still isn't sure about Bode. We also met baby Sailor for the first time. Last time we saw Z & ME was in Phoenix for Layla's baptism about 10 days before Sailor was born. On our last day there we drove up to Huntington Beach to see our most favorite SKIMBERS! we hadn't met their baby Walt either. We packed A LOT into a short trip and had such a FUN TIME!
here a few pictures Suzy sent me along the way of their flight..... nate met everybody in Draper, dropped ej off and they headed to the airport.

this was ej at 7am asking if we could go to the airport :)

a picnic at the gate....

 ...on the plane in between grammy and gramp...

 picking up the rental min-van....

They flew out about 1pm and at 12pm we loaded into our car to meet up with them. We did stop in Las Vegas for a couple hours to see Lacey and Jordan. It was great for Rowen to stretch a little and we always have fun hanging out with them.... after that we had about 4 hours until we arrived in San Clemente... it was a pretty smoothe drive until we got stuck at the toll road at 1 am being .05 cents short. we seriously had to wait until a car came to the toll booth and ask them for a nickel! lame. We continued on and arrived shortly after that.

 rowen enjoying a burrito from Pedros, i believe....

 we celebrated Gramp and Layla's bday with this sweet Nacho Libre cake we brought from Springville...

 friday was a little overcast but the kids still had fun playing in the sand.

 Saturday we had family pictures at San Clemente Beach then ate yummy donuts at Zach & ME's. After hanging out for a little bit and swimming at the pool our little family headed back to the beach while everybody stayed back to watch Conference. The sun came out and it was BEAUTIFUL!!!!

there is a whole sequence of pictures that i LOVE of EJ playing in the waves. she is a total water baby! 

 sun+water+playing tons= passed out after less than 5 mins in the car.

we could have stayed until the sun went down, but the Priesthood Session of Conference was that night and so we headed back so nate could go with zach and gramp.

Sunday morning we woke up and headed to Huntington Beach to spend a few hours with Scott and Kimber. We walked from their apartment to main street/the pier and had lunch with them at Ruby's.

 these cute girls wanted gumballs SO BADLY... when they got them they were a little hard and they were a little disappointed.

After lumch we walked back to their house and loaded up for the LOOOOONG DRIVE HOME.

ej woke up from her nap in a panic to go to the bathroom... there were no exits for quite sometime. BUT i feel like we weren't the only ones who had a potty emergency at this stop. there was tire that once lined with some napkins made the perfect toilet. ej wasn't thrilled but mainly because she was so tired!

The drive home was NOT FUN, not horrible but just TOO LOOONG! We did have such a fun time and can't wait to go back for another visit!