playing with all of his shiny new cars. the child LOVES cars.

happy scary birthday video. click it.

Cali Shots for O

Fun in the Sun & Sand & Slide

Good Eats

this is an old general store in old town

having some fun waiting on our grub in ruby's diner. this diner over looks the ocean.

always with the cars

full belly. heavy eyes. this joe's crab shack restaurant in oceanside was SO fun! Ocean was very entertained. this joe's over looks a harbor.

signing hungry ....talkin bout FEED ME momma!
and yep, that's ink on his face

museum of making music

sea life aquarium

this is the outside of the museum of photographic arts - at balboa park. we didn't make it there in time before it closed. i was very disappointed. and then i got over it.

(click on this photo to see Ocean)

legoland

looks like he's running himself over and cussing himself out in this one

we took 3 boat rides while we were in cali.

yea that's right. wind in our hair

balboa park

this is just the start of lego land. this was one of the most thrilling moments of Ocean's life - the whole lego land experience. i've never seen him so excited and aw stricken. he knew it was made just for him.

Cali

would ya look at these happy mugs? in this shot you can tell we escaped the retched clutches of utah and were just beginning our cali adventures. it's amazing how refreshing it is to experience some other culture than that of churchy utah. don't you worry fishy.... we will escape for good soon enough.

somehow we managed to fit a plethora of fun into such a short time span all while managing plenty of beachy relaxation time. couldn't ask for more.

here's a short list of some places we conquered...in no particular order. all over san diego, oceanside, lego land, sea life adventures, balboa park, gaslamp district, old town, la jolla, walked across coronado island, took a ferry to it, wild life park, william davis museum, museum of making music, museum of art and history, took a north harbor excursion, attended a couple street parties, and a few very very cool restaurants to be mentioned are ruby's diner at the end of oceanside pier, the cheese shop, and a kick ass joe's crab shack. now what - with all this fun going on Ocean did NOT like the idea of returning home. soon as he noticed we were at our door step he began crying the saddest tears i ever did see. and i figured he'd be happy to see all his toys. no way.

needless to say, there were way too many photos taken and it will be difficult to choose which ones to blog... so i will work on doing that over the next few days. enjoy.

this was our back yard for the week

the view from our condo at night

our Ocean being precious

some wild life park action

Funny Faces and Cars

this lil party animal would have stayed up all night if we let him. he couldn't get enough drum playin with the boys or receive enough smooches from the gals at uncle billy's birthday extravaganza.

and i just love this photo although it looks like a birthday monster is trying to escape from Ocean's hoody.

Drummer Boy?