Friday, April 17, 2009

sAn DiEgO

We took a fabulous little trip to beautiful San Diego (so fabulous, in fact, that I posted A LOT of pictures!) I hadn't been there since I was in high school, so it was really nice to go back for a visit. We rented a bay house and stayed with our good friends, Karl & Chantae, and their adorable daughter, Charlie. We went to Sea Port Village, Old Town San Diego, Balboa Park, a Padres Game, surfing/boogie boarding, and the San Diego Wildlife Preserve. We had a wonderful week and wished it was longer!!


The view from the bay house was beautiful and it was such
a cute little town home!

More great views...if you look at the bottom right, you can
see the San Diego temple.

This is Marley's first time wearing sunglasses and she'd
smile every time we put them on! Charlie was already
a sunglasses-wearing pro!

I love the picture of Charlie on the top right where she
is trying to touch the bubbles.

This is Marley's first Easter! We managed to pack their
Easter baskets without crushing them or have the candy
melt!

We took in a Padres game...

We stopped at a hat store...
I really love these photos of Charlie and Marley eating
powdered donuts!! They look so adorable!

Charlie and Marley got along really well. I really like
the picture of them giving each other a kiss and the ones
where Charlie is feeding Marley Kix.

The San Diego Wild Animal Preserve was actually really
great for the kids because they really liked all the animals
and we didn't have to wait in line (that extra $20 was worth
skipping the hour-long line at the safari ride!). The loriket
encounter was awesome! We fed then nectar which made
the birds flock to us like mad!

These are some pictures we took while on the safari ride.

This is Marley's first time on the carousel, which she
absolutely loved. Charlie, on the other hand, thought
differently. She couldn't wait to get off!

This is in a covered wagon at Old Town San Diego. The
girls had so much fun running around screaming their
lungs out!
Can I just say that the San Diego Temple has to be one
of the most gorgeous temples? It is absolutely stunning!!
It would have been nice to have enough time and someone
to watch the kids so we could do a session.

2 comments:

Mandi said...

Marley & Charlie ~ what cute little friends! You need a weekend at the cabin to rest from your adventure. :)

Karl and Chantae said...

The greatest week of your life, I mean what can you expect when your with the Coopers! The pictures are hilarious of the girls. I love the pic of Marley in the sunglasses, the kissing picture, the donut pics, and the kix moment. Great times. Thanks for being such awesome friends. We really appreciate you guys and we are super glad to have such great people in our lives! I know, a little moooshy but I just wanted to let you know that we really do appreciate ya. I'm impressed you have pics up already. I love the collage, very cute! I still haven't had time to go through all 572 pics taken :)