San Diego!

finally...

Besides enjoying our relaxing time at the beach house and on the beach, we also went

Kayaking

We drove over to La Jolla and went out with a tour group and kayaked over to these caves.  It's was pretty cool, but too bad it was too dangerous to venture inside them.  We had a blast, this was our first time doing this.  The only hard thing about it was getting out past those waves and coming in with the waves, we got thrown into the water both times, ha ha.  At least everyone else fell coming in also.

One of the other days the guys all went to the U.S.S. Midway while the girls went shopping and Paxton and I took naps, well Paxton did.  Then we went and played at the beach when he woke up just me and him, it was fun!

(These pictures are so out of order).  This is our second day at SeaWorld.  Rem, Paxton and I went back to SeaWorld (for free) a second day.  We just went in the morning for a couple of hours.  We wanted to go back and see/do a few things that we missed the first day.

Paxton would not look at the camera for a picture.  He did like Shamu though, he would say hi.

We went on a few rides one of which Paxton wasn't too sure of, at least he didn't cry, just his face was priceless.  (no picture)

He loved showing us how the flamingo's stand.

This was our first morning here.  When we woke up we all just wanted to go see the beach so we all walked out there in our pajamas.  We found lots of sea shells and dodged the waves coming in.  I love feeling the sand in between my toes!

Our first day at SeaWorld.  It was a blast going with the whole family.  Paxton got lots of attention and it was fun watching his reaction to the animals.  He liked so many of the animals, especially watching the dolphins jump out of the water.

We also got to go to the San Diego Zoo.  Just Grandma, Grandpa, GG and us went to the zoo, the rest stayed back and went surfing.

Paxton sitting on Papa's shoulders viewing the map.  He was pointing out all the animals and telling us what they were.

When we first got there we went on a tour bus around the Zoo.  I highly recommend this (it's free).  We actually saw quite a bit and it was fun to hear some interesting facts about the animals.  After the bus ride we then just walked to animals that eithere we didn't see or wanted to see again.

GG bought Paxton this lion stuffed animal, he loves it.

Uncle Trev and Aunt Sandee taking Paxton for a bike ride, which he loved!

These beach pictures are from the day that everyone left us.  We had a great time playing in the sand.  Paxton would call the beach, the "big sandbox".

He loved getting his legs buried in the sand.

After playing in the beach, it was very nice to have this huge sink in the laundry room to rinse off Paxton, taking off diaper and all because there was sand everywhere!

More playing at the beach. 

Erika and I tried builing a sand castle but Paxton just kept wanting to destroy it.  We finally got most of it done and then we let him destroy it, we all joined in on the fun too.

We had a very fun vacation!  I wish I could go back!

Thanks Mom and Dad!

Oh ya, and you can click here to view more pictures from the vacation.

Our Awesome Vacation...

that we have WAY to many pictures, so expect a lot!

These two wonderful people that I like to call Dad and Mom took our whole family on vacation! We were very excited to have Trevor and Sandee with us from Texas and my Grandma came along also.

This is the beach house we stayed on in Mission Beach, San Diego, California.  It was beautiful, super nice inside!

And this is the beach we played on almost daily!

Here is everyone that came.  Such a great looking group :)

And here is the cute little boy that did not get spoiled at all by 10 adults ;)

That's all for now.

Happy Father's Day

I saw this cute idea on Pinterest and had to make one or two!  Rem LOVED it and so did Paxton.  We spent the morning in bed driving cars on Daddy's back and then I made a pancake breakfast.  During church he got more and more back rubs.  As the primary kids were singing their father's day song, I stood Paxton up on my lap and he put both arms around mine and Remi's neck and said, "I love you guys".  It was so stinkin' adorable!

 Rem is such a good Dad! I love watching these two play together, sometimes I forget which one is the kid ;)  Paxton loves him so so much!

  

Then later we invited both Papa's and Grandma's too and Aunt Erika over for dinner.  It was nice to have all the girls help out with making dinner especially since we just got home from vacation yesterday.  (More on that later)

 Papa Moss

 Papa Sorenson

 and Daddy

 Papa and Daddy got twinner shirts and they all got Tornado Golf Tee's.  My clients husband invented these and they're just coming out on the market.  So if your Dad or husband likes to golf, here's a fun new thing to get them to try out (it's suppossed to add 15-20 yards to your swing!)

I love my dad so much!  He is the greatest example to me!

Happy Father's Day to you!

Our little TV star!!!

We were so excited to find out that Paxton would be on a Chuck-a-rama commercial. The producers just loved him! He had 2 days of filming. The first was at KSL studios for the talking part. He was scared at first, I can't blame him though. He had to sit on a stool by himself with this huge camera and lights in his face. So we spent a little time touring the studio and sitting on the stool with him. Then he was ready to go and he did such a great job. It was funny though, in between lines he would say, "sit on couch". He wanted to sit on the couch where everyone else was sitting (Grandpa, Grandma, Jamie, Erika and more). Then the second day we went to Draper Chuck-a-rama. This day lasted a lot longer because they were filming the cooking and also 2 other commercials. But this filming was easy because he had a big plate of macaroni and cheese in front of him. He loves that stuff!

After the commercial, Chuck-a-rama gave him a little payment.  It was funny, in the car I was trying to get it from him to see what was in it and he would not let me see it.  He was just so excited that it was his.  We are so proud of this little guy! 

Summer Fun

Hiking

One evening we went on a short hike up Rocky Mouth Trail to see the waterfall.  We took dinner up with us and enjoyed the view.  Paxton wanted to walk all by himself, we let him for a little while but we were starving so Rem carried him the rest of the way.  It was beautiful up there, we need to do more things like this!

Duck Ponds

Paxton and I try to go to different parks for our walks in the morning.  One of his favorites is the duck ponds.  We saw TONS of baby ducks when we went, they were so cute.  Of course we have to bring bread with us so we can feed them!

Bowling

 This was Paxton's first time bowling and he even got 2 strikes!  He loved pushing the ball down the ramp and he was very good about cheering on Mom and Dad.  Rem and I hadn't been bowling in a very long time and we both were shocked that we both got strikes on our first bowl!  I beat Rem with, I think a 114, he wasn't too happy about that ;)

Aquarium

Once again we went to the Aquarium.  We took Paxton's Great Grandma Soderberg with us, it was her first time going, she loved it!  Paxton acted like he owned the place and just took off where he wanted to go (we've been there so many times).  He was cute with his GG, he even held her hand with no prompting at all, I almost got it on camera.

 Tracy Aviary

I don't ever remember coming here as a kid, so this was new for me too.  It was fun to walk around and see the birds, especially to watch Paxton enjoying it. 

  We have been swimming a couple of times (no pictures) and I am sad to say that Paxton does not like it!  I think it's an independence thing.  He likes to go swimming, but just play on the stairs where he can touch.  If I take him out where he can't touch he is clinging on to me even though he is wearing his life jacket.  I hope to take him swimming lots this summer in hopes to get him to like it!

We are having a fun summer so far!  And we are excited to leave in a week to California with my whole family to play on the beach and go to SeaWorld and more!