South Carlsbad is always the best vacation! (August 2013)

South Carlsbad, CA has always been my favorite vacation.  My mom's family has gone since my mom was a teen, so she took us almost every year as kids.  I love the beach.  I love swimming and boogie boarding in the ocean, laying out in the sun, relaxing with a good book, playing in the sand, looking for shells and sand crabs, seeing dolphins surfing the waves, camping on the bluff, making s'mores by the campfire, playing games with family by lantern light, and falling asleep listening to the waves.  Since I loved it so much I had to take Andy there.  He thought that he wouldn't like it because he really doesn't care for swimming, but he loved it!!!
 
 
We couldn't take Zoe down to the beach, so we had to get a family picture above.  We plan on taking one every anniversary, but this was about 2 months late.
 
While we were in California we took a morning to go to the San Diego temple.  It was a lovely morning.
 
 
Here many of the adults are enjoying a book while Jeremy puts lotion on the girls. 
 
 
I love that Grandpa Clift still goes to the beach every year!
 
 
Digging holes for the ocean to fill is always a must for the young ones.
 
 
 
 
Andrew and Andy relaxing in the shade.  I just popped in for a picture.
 
 
Since we took Dad's trailer, Mya and Ava slept on some of the fold down beds.  Eli would hang out there in the afternoon.
 
 
Zoe had to be on a short chain.  She had access to some shade provided by the bushes and a towel on her kennel.  We got a complaint from the rangers saying that she was barking and that we didn't leave her with enough shade and food.  We already fed her, and she is a dog.
 
 
This picture melts my heart.  I love it when my nieces or nephews snuggle up with my husband to play games or watch a movie.
 
 
Boogie boarding is so much fun.  This year some people struggled to catch waves, but at least they weren't tossing us around too much.
(Trisha, Melissa, Andy, Andrew)
 
 
I insisted on being buried, so all the kids joined in to help make me a mermaid.  I believe Andrew was there to actually make the shape.  It was a little scary because they buried me about 2 feet under, so I couldn't even get out by myself.
 
 
They Mya jumped in to be the next mermaid.
 
 
I also loved hanging out on the hammock with Eli.  Love this big baby!
 
 
Enjoying the sunset!
 
 
Mya and Ava were a little scared of Zoe because she is so big, but near the end of the week Mya wanted Zoe to sleep with her.  This only lasted for about an hour before Zoe woke Mya up with a kiss, and we heard Mya screamed.
 
 
Zoe slept with us on the full sized bed that night, but Mya joined me in the morning when Andy was going to take Zoe for a run.
 
 
 
By the end of the week, both Trisha and I were nice and tan.  I loved spending the week with her.  We sure had a blast!  Love my sister so much.  She is my best friend.
 
 
The trailer was hitched, but we couldn't leave until we said goodbye to Grandma and Grandpa Clift.
 
 
It was a great week!  I can't wait until we go again, hopefully with some kids of our own.
 
We drove back to Vegas to drop off my dad's trailer, and to stay the night at his house.  We got to see a lot of my family in one week, and we were going to see a lot of Andy's family the next week.

Comments

Trisha said…
Love this post!!! I'm so glad you guys came with, it is such a fun trip every time we are together! Love you too sis! (And the next pic of us together is going to look much better!) :)
February 10, 2014 at 8:50 AM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

We had a "CRATER" honeymoon than you!

Image
We stayed in Midway, UT for the first 2 nights of our honeymoon. Around our little Swiss get away, were all of these little crater pond things. You can see our little cottage in the background of this picture. On Monday we went to the Crater at Homestead. The water is warm and very blue. Many people go scuba diving here, but we just swam around. Ok, so I didn't swim too much. I more of just floated around. They make you wear a life jacket, which meant I got to just relax. I was so relaxed that I even look dead in this picture. We had a nice woman in a wheelchair take a picture of us. She took a lot more than one. She kept telling us to do something different. I decided not to put all of the pictures on here. She really wanted to take one of us in the tunnel. Here we are outside of the tunnel. Once we changed, we got into the car and headed up to Yellowstone. We spent Tuesday seeing the sights in Yellowstone. Within minutes we had to stop because there were some bison in t...
Read more

My Engagement Story

Image
In order to tell the story of our engagement, I will have to first tell you the story of our first date. For those of you who don't know, Andy and I were set up on a blind date by my Aunt Mary and Uncle Fred (more Mary). We met on August 27th when he picked me up for our date. Andy was well prepared for our first date. He planned on going up to canyon for a picnic and walking around the falls. He even had picked up some yummy sandwiches, but I didn't know about that then. Well, it happened to be raining that day, so he gave me the option of going to this authentic pizza place. I chose that plan since it was raining. We went to the pizza place where I ate pizza with corn on it for my first time. After dinner he started driving me back home, and then he noticed that it had stopped raining. We decided to try the canyon anyways. We went up to Canyon Glen and started walking the trail towards Bridal Veil Falls. For those of you who know me well, you know that I can easil...
Read more

July 2025 - Independence and Friends.

Image
July 4 - Parade time!  The usual, candy, chats with neighbors and lots of fun.  After dinner that night, we went to the Melodrama with Rob and Mallory Lyman.  They came and spent the weekend of the 4th with us. It was fun to have friends over and talk, but the kids struggled with not having alone time.   Sunday July 6 - When we got home from church we couldn't find Goldie, but we found blood stains on the driveway and front steps.  After a few minutes she came to Melissa with a big wound in her front leg.  She'd been out while we were at church and someone shot her in the leg.  She must have been bothering other animals.  We got the bleeding stopped with styptic powder and pressure, then Melissa spent most of the afternoon snuggling her to keep her from licking it.  I took her to the vet the next day, they left the bullet/pellet in the leg and just gave her a week of antibiotics. Melissa loved how calm and snuggly she was all day Sunday,...
Read more