fun & games

And now for a collection of uncategorized pictures from my phone...

One morning the boys played Legos together for a really long time.  Usually, they don't sit quietly together.

Easter

We had a lovely Easter this year.  So far, Matt hadn't had to work any major holidays (which is very fortunate), but he did have to work on Easter.  It worked out for the best though, because he worked a late afternoon shift.  Our church doesn't start until 1:00, so we were able to spend the entire morning with him, which was nice.  Instead of doing a large Easter dinner, we had an Easter brunch.

Carlsbad Strawberry Field

Last summer, we discovered the best u-pick strawberry field in Carlsbad.  It's huge and the strawberries, from what I hear, are really good.  It opened not too long ago, so when Matt was off we headed there to let the boys pick.  Graham has been requesting to go strawberry picking since we went last June.  Lucky for him, the strawberries were finally on. : )  

a day in LA

Matt had his second week off since last June in March.  We decided it would be a fun day to drive up to LA to hang out and see some of our good friends that live in Pasadena.  We drove up in the morning and made our first stop Downtown Disney.  Downtown Disney is really fun but it was kind of sad being sooo close to Disneyland and not going in.  We'll make more trips up there over the next few years, I'm sure.  

We stopped by the Lego store, and the boys loved it.  

They were building race cars outside, so Graham and Matt made themselves a car to race.

sea world

We can go to Sea World once a year for free because of Matt being active duty military.  It's not a bad deal.  Once or twice a year is plenty of Sea World time.  The boys love it, though, and had a great time.

happy valentines day

So the only pictures I took of Valentine's day was at breakfast.  Happy Valentines breakfast, I guess.

vacation in vegas

Matt had a week off at the beginning of February.  It was warmly welcomed.  We all needed some time off, probably Matt more than the rest of us, but we were glad to have him home from work for a week.  We wanted to go somewhere, but we weren't able to get one of our family's time shares in southern California like we originally wanted.  A really nice time share opened up in Las Vegas, so we took it.  We're not really the Veags-type, but it was still fun to get away.  I didn't take a whole lot of pictures, which is kind of sad, but I didn't really want a bunch of pictures of dirty old Vegas.  We figure we won't take the kids back there to Vacation like ever.  We also go to meet up with Matt's parents who came down for a few days.  It was fun to see them and to have a few vacation days with them as well.

warm play days and cold beach days

The longer we live here in San Diego, the more we love it.  We loved Arizona, but now we see why people flock to San Diego.  It's fabulous.  The weather is nearly always beautiful, and there are so many things to do.  We happen to live in an exceptionally wonderful area, as we are able to walk to nearly everything.  Oftentimes we walk to Ralphs, Trader Joes, the library, and it's wonderful.  It's a shame the Navy is making us live here.  Such a burden.  : )  Sometimes the boys get books from the library and they can't wait to get home to read them.  This particular day, they found a Lightening McQueen book, which was a hit.