SAN DIEGO ZOO

On the second day of our trip to San Diego, we decided to check out the San Diego Zoo.  We had been there once before (pre-kids), and what a blast it was this time with the boys!  I mean, seriously, what's not to love about animals and the zoo?!?  This place is huge, and you can spend all day there and still not see everything.  We did get to see a lot of different kinds of animals from giraffes, to elephants, zebras, monkeys, pandas, you name it!  The animals are behind electric fences, which makes it appear that they are out in the open and you can get right up close to them.  It's so much fun watching the animal behaviors and how they interact with each other and humans.  In fact, when we went to see the panda exhibit, the momma panda was chowing down on some bamboo, and then right before our very eyes she turned and, as my three-year-old loves to tell the story, "pooped!"  We had an awesome time visiting the San Diego Zoo, and will definitely go back the next time we're in San Diego!

UN-WELCOME WELCOME HOME!

Hey everyone!  We are back from a week-long vacation to California!  We went to San Diego and to Disneyland in Anaheim, and boy did we have fun!  We checked out the San Diego Botanic Garden, The San Diego Zoo, Legoland, and of course Disneyland and California Adventure.  I am working on plenty of posts about the trip which I'll have coming up next week.  I'm still unpacking, re-settling in, doing laundry...you know, all the not-so-fun parts of coming back from vacation.    In the meantime, I just wanted to tell you a quick little unpleasant story that happened to us when we got home.  After a long flight with two kids 3 and under (which turned out to be better than I thought), we got home late Saturday night to a house that was only 40 degrees!  Yup, our heat wasn't working, so we had to check into a hotel close to home.  It was the worst, after a week of sleeping in hotels all you want to do is sleep in your own bed, but nope!  Thankfully, we got our heat working on Sunday and were able to return home, and then boom- we were hit with another snow storm on Monday.  Talk about un-welcome welcome home!  Take us back to sunny, California!!!

#INSTAGRAM

Hey guys! We are on our first real vacation as a family-of-four this week...we jet setted to sunny California to see family and friends and do fun stuff with the kids!  We are exploring great new towns, trying awesome restaurants, and discovering lots of amazing things that I can't wait to tell you all about when we get back.  In the meantime, I'll probably be sort of MIA this week, but if you want to follow us along on our trip...check out my daily posts on Instagram!  Hope you're all having a great week! :-)