December 27, 2009

Christmas in San Diego!

We just returned from a 9 day vacation with my (Jennie's family) in sunny San Diego, California! The week was filled with Christmas cheer, food, cousins playing, grandparents spoiling, Shamoo, pool time, and just hanging out around our beautiful accomdations on the golf course, thanks to Nana and Papa Dub! It was a great week...full of new memories!

This is the one entire family shot for the week...no blinks and all smiles!!!



Rylie and mom made a special birthday cake...for Jesus! Rylie new exactly what to do with the box of candles. She would place a candle on the cake and lick her fingers in between. And, as any smart person would discover...if you stick your hand in the frosting, you get to lick much more than a finger! (Notice the big whole in the frosting on the picture below!)






Of course Rylie liked running in the splash park and splashing in the pool...











Here we are riding the carousel at The Wild Animal Park...three times!!!!! Rylie spun around with glee...saying "wee" and waving as if on a float, every time she passed the family of on-lookers. Adorable!









One of the highlights of the entire vacation was feeding the dolphins at Sea World!




Another fun time was flying around with dad on this ride at Sea World...




Many hours were spent playing outside our condo on the golf green of the 17th hole! Rylie loved sitting on the bench watching the golfers tee off. In between golfers, she enjoyed collecting "treasures" (a.k.a. tees) as well as filling divots with sand...





One annual Christmas project is decorating a Gingerbread House. Rylie did the entire roof, again, one lick at a time! "Yummy to my tummy!"



Opening the Christmas stockings...





Chad and I spent the week also completing a 1000 piece puzzle of San Diego!




Thank you mom and dad for sponsoring this trip!!! Such a great week together as a family!