Monday, April 27, 2009

Napa, California

I don't know what has happened with my blogging. But I have been seriously lacking. About a month ago for spring break we went to Napa, California. We have really good friends that live there and it had been too long since we have seen them. I have known them since I was 13 years old. They were my youth leaders at church in Delaware. We just clicked and now are better friends(more like family) than ever. We thought California sounded great since it has nice weather in March and we have awful cold weather here. We really lucked out with the weather it was mid 70's to 80 degrees. That is heaven to me. It was really hard for me to want to come home. We went to SanFransico for a day, we went to the jelly belly factory, hung out, ate lots and lots and lots! We all had such a great time and can't wait to go back again. We actually got to Dave and April's a couple days before they got home from their camping trip. It was nice because we were able to catch up on sleep since we drove the 12 hours all night. We then played outside and went to the park. This was the first time Cash experienced grass. He wasn't too sure at first. Then he loved it. In fact he loved to eat it. My hot man lovin the sunshine.Here is Kaia within 25 min. of being home from camping. The girls found her clips and loved doing her hair. Blake and Kamden blowing bubbles. While we were visiting we gave Kaia really good practice for babysitting. It was so nice because I would get Cash down for a nap and then April and I went shopping or out to lunch by ourselves! The one day we went out Cash didn't sleep very long and when we came home this is what we saw. She got the umbrella to keep the sun off of Cash. Isn't she cute? She is going to be a great babysitter. It makes me kind of excited for when Kamden is old enough!!
April and Dave rented a 15 passenger van the Day we went to SanFransico so that we could all ride together. It was pretty fun, the kids loved it. In fact, I asked Kamden what her favorite part of the day was and she said riding in the big van!
Kamden and Aspen LOVED Kaia. Kaia is 11 and such a sweet, patient, fun girl. I felt kind of bad for her at times because the only time she ever got to be by herself was in the bathroom and she had to make sure she locked the door or they would have come in there with her too! The did everything she did. It was pretty cute. Above was in SanFransico walking back to the car.
Aspen loved to be carried by Kaia. We did have a stroller for her but she thought this was much better. Kaia was very tired after walking all day in SF especially since she carried a 37lb child.

Me and my girls!Crazy April! We were in an arcade place in SF and April thought Dave was walking by so she said hey, can I have a quarter? Well it wasn't Dave, so we just laughed. So then she thought it would be funny to ask random people for a quarter while sitting on this horse that said no more than 50lbs. So a young boy walks by and she asked him and he looks at the last quarter in his hand and he says yes. Well both our hearts just broke. What a nice boy he was. She didn't end up taking the quarter thank goodness! My cute fuzz head!
This is my favorite picture. He looks so adorable if I do say so myself.
My Boys!
The kids and Brock and I looking at all of the seals off of Fisherman's Wharf We all went to the Jelly Belly Factory and bought way too many jelly beans. Here is Kaia modeling for us and teaching my daughter how to model. She is pretty cute.The only group shot I got of us. I love that Kennedy family.


































































































































































5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Brielle, wow that looks like you really had fun, it is so hard to come back when you think of all that sunshine we are missing right now, atleast every 5 minutes or so we get a ray or two! What crazy weather. By the way you look so good!!!!

kp said...

You were right by my house! My parents live 10 minutes away from the jelly belly factory. In fact, I hate jelly bellies because when we were younger any time people came to visit, we had to go there.

Jim and Reenie said...

What a fun trip!! I love those Kennedy's too!!Such cute shots, the kids look like they are having so much fun. Isn't the sunshine great? It is just invigorating. I miss all of you so very much. Love, Mom/Mamaw

Lady said...

Glad you had a great spring break even if you didn't come see me. :)

Anonymous said...

looks so fun....I could have really gotten into the jelly belly factory.....one of my favorite sugars!......grammy