1st Family Vacation to Southern CA!

We road tripped on down to sunny socal to do some relaxin'.  Violet was a decent traveler as long as I sat by her and entertained.  We made sure to stop for lunch to let her stretch her little legs.  Not terrible but not something I want to do regularly either.  We spent the majority of the trip in Mission Viejo visiting Justin's cousin Ryan and his wife Jenn.  They have a pool which made our trip the more amazing!  When you have a baby going to the beach alot is hard and alot of work.  So we spent most our days laying out by the pool.  We went out to eat lots of yummy food and basically tried to relax.  Violet also slept decently there which shocked me.  She took  two 2 hr naps daily and only woke about 3 times a night (funny that that's good huh).

We did venture to the beach once and V loved it.  She ate handfuls of sand, felt the water on her feet and did a few face plants.  It was so fun to see her enjoying it.  She was covered in sand when we left.  Infact, her carseat is still a sandbox practically.

We spent the last two days of our trip in Mission Beach at Justin's friends house from college.  They have two little girls, three and 13 months.  Violet had soooo much fun.  It was the highlight of our trip to watch her have so much fun with the little girls.  She was in heaven.  It makes me want another girl even more so V can have a little sister.  She would absolutely love it.

We had a great time and great company but were happy to be back home... where there are gold fish crackers crushed in the rug, dog food dumped all over the kitchen and the chance of twisting your ankle on a toy is great.  Love it.

Here are a billion pics of our trip.. hey, it was our 1st family trip, of course I had to go picture crazy...

{Love us}

V's 1st time swimming!

 

think I took enough pics?