California Vacation! Part 2!

Okay, so first things first. Here's a couple more pictures from our Santa Cruz adventure :)

^ we were riding on a train, and the sun was horribly bright!

^ that's part of the mini golf course!

MOVING ON! Our next adventure took us to Monterey! Where we explored the aquarium! It was so cool, especially for Landen :) he loves seeing fish. He didn't like that he couldn't run free, but he eventually took a nap and was fine, haha.

So, I suck more than I thought. Haha I don't have pictures from Monterey! We took mostly videos so that Landen could see the aquarium later on. Ha, sorry!

So, I'll jump ahead to the last couple of days of our vacation. We stayed close to Elk Grove to please the children who didn't want to be in the car for very long! We had a double date night with my parents (thanks to my babysitting brother, Alex!) where we got to go bowling and out to Chick-Fil-A (yum!).
We went down to Old Sacramento and explored the old shops. :) It was fun!
Landen got lots of fun cousin time in with Juju and snuggled his Papa quite a bit!

We also got some good eats in :) at our favorite Chick-Fil-A!

And we got to try Leatherby's! Super good! So, there is one more part to our vacation, and its going to take a while to write. So be patient! Almost done!! :)

Finally! A break! Part 1.

Hello!
It's been about a month (plus some) since I last updated this thing! But that's mainly because nothing awesome was happening in our lives. Kindof in a lull.
But! We did just get back from our week-long vacation to California! Do let's talk about that :)
Saturday September 8th, we set out on our flight to Sacramento! We were pretty nervous, considering that Landen had never been on a plane before. But he actually ended up sitting still on Josh's lap until he eventually fell asleep! A pretty painless flight, which was more than good enough for us :)
We landed in Sacramento and were met by my mom! Who then whisked us away to her house to relax and settle, because in a short two hours we were going to be at an open-house/wedding reception for Josh and I :) and we were so excited for everyone to finally meet Josh and Landen! I unfortunately don't have any pictures of our little shin-dig, so if anyone else does, please share! Anyways, it was a lovely evening hosted by the always lovely Valerie and Todd Lewis :)
After our shin-dig, we went home and relaxed the rest of the night, because on Sunday morning we were to set off on our first vacation adventure!
We were headed to...

That's right! We were off to Santa Cruz! Checking out the boardwalk, taking in the sights, and having fun with my mom, dad, and neice Juju. One reason Josh and I so desperately wanted to go to Santa Cruz is because the last time we were there (5/11), we played a round of miniature golf. I beat Josh by one stroke on the 18th hole, got a hole-in-one on the 18th hole, and won a free game of golf :) haha. So! We were determined to have a rematch, and long story short, Josh ended up beating me by two strokes after a looooong neck-and-neck game. But we both got a hole-in-one on the 18th hole and won a free game. :) 'Twas a good time, I must say!

Now please enjoy some pictures of our fun times, and Landen having fun with his Nana and Papa :)

So, I guess I didn't have as many pictures of Santa Cruz as I thought. Haha I will find more! Stay tuned for what we did next :)