Santa Cruz Vacation

Hey everyone!! So like always it's been awhile since my last post. Life just kinda gets away from me sometimes and I forget to update my blog. I always say i'll do it later today, which turns into tomorrow, which then turns into days or weeks later. Lame I know :-) Anyways...

So as you all know we went to fabulous Santa Cruz for about 5 days with the Smith's, Morena's, and Grahams. And we had a BLAST!!! It was the best time. The house that Gma & Gpa Morena picked out for us was amazing....it was 3 stories, had a balcony on the top floor, the top floor was all windows looking out to the ocean, and was literally across the street from the beach. The beach was the front yard!! Plus we had the bottom floor to ourselves, our own private little suite!! It was just perfect! And speaking of perfect...the weather was so perfect we couldn't believe how perfect it was...sunny the whole week, well except the night we did our family pictures (haha!) but overall it was so nice. We also had some amazing dinners!! Oh man...I am a HUGE fish fan so eating at these fabulous resturants next to the ocean was heaven for me! It was so nice to just relax and have fun with family. Addi was able to roam around and just play to her little hearts content, we had Dad's famous margaritas...which if you read one of my previous posts you know that I am now a big fan of margaritas :-), put together puzzles, and walked along the beach. It was a blast! Enough said. So, here are some pics from our vacation...Enjoy!

There's lots of pics so keep scrolling!!

The beach house...(It's the one in the middle)

Getting ready for a morning walk in her new stroller

Addi and Mommy

Playing on the beach...


Feeling the cold ocean water...not too sure about it....

Def did not like the freezing cold ocean on her feet :-)

Daddy and his baby girl

OUR FAMILIY! Santa Cruz 2009

Having fun!!

Feeling sand for the first time...

Favorite pic!! Looking out at the ocean...

Reading by the ocean :-)

Getting all cleaned up for dinner at Roy's!!

Mommy and Daddy

My little family...with a gorgeous view!!

My handsome hubby and his mini-me ;-)

My little love bug

GG's and Addi girl on their 50th Anniversary!!

Playing with rice at dinner at Roy's

ooohhhh...weird...rice....

HAHA!! She got 2 pieces of rice stuck to her lip and it
looked like she had buck teeth...soooo funny!!

Some more random photos...







Pics from Addi's first trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium
with Mommy, Daddy, and Gpa Smith
Monterey Bay is behind us

STARFISH!!

Daddy and Addi at the Kelp forest

Touch pool

Mommy and Addi girl checkin stuff out...

Seahorses...such amazing creatures!

She LOVED them!!

A fake sea otter...but she loved it anyways :-)

Daddy and Addi by the Orca...such a fun time!!


Info on the aquarium can be found here

Info on the fabulous food we had at Roy's