San Diego

Devin had a medical conference in San Diego the end of September. His work paid for our hotel and everything for Devin. It was such a fun trip, our first trip with just the two of us. It was much needed! In August, Devin and I got new callings in church. I am the Primary president and Devin is an early morning seminary teacher.  Needless to say, it was a much needed trip, especially for Devin. He leaves for Seminary at 6:15 and gets home after work around 6 or 6:30. So he is with the girls for about an hour until they go to bed. Then he prepares his lesson for the next day and stars all over again. I feel like he is in school again! I don't know how he does it. But he is doing a great job!! And he really likes it. Anyway, so we went to San Diego for days.

Old Town San Diego by the "Hot Licks" sign :)

Mormon Battalion Museum

Ok, so Devin was in class a lot, so I was by myself looking at the sites most of the time. So, as I was looking through our pictures, I realized that they are kind of boring because not very many are pictures of us haha. 

Our hotel was right on the beach, so we were so close to a lot of attractions. This is the Star of India boat and below is a statue by the Midway Museum.

This picture was for Mckenna, she thought the house on the water was so cool.

This one was also for Mckenna. One of the yachts shared a name with her :)

Panda at the zoo

La Jolla Beach

And... we had to go to Sea World. Devin has been wanting to go since he was a kid. We felt a little bad going without the girls, but someday they will be able to go with us.

This trip was made possible by grandmas and grandpas :) who watched the girls for us. Thanks!

Photo Shoot

Ok, so I'm definitely not a whiz at the camera... like at all. But it's fun to get pictures of the girls. I realized I hadn't taken good pictures of them for a while. In these pictures, Brielle is a little over 2.

This is her favorite "doggy" and she sleeps with it every night. She likes to play with it's fur with her pinky while she sucks her thumb. A few times, her pinky has even gotten stuck in the fur.

Mckenna has never been a poser for the camera, so it's hard to get good pictures of her. But, once she got the sucker, she was a little better. Mckenna is almost 5.

Sure love these girls!!!

Preschool

Mckenna had her first day of preschool in September... for the 3rd and last time haha.  

Last year, she went to this same preschool twice a week and this year she will go three times a week. She sure enjoys it. It has really helped her not be so shy. This is a picture from last year, I can't seem to find the picture of her first day of preschool last year, so this will have to do.

And this was her first year of preschool when we lived in Iowa.  A few moms and I got together and rotated having preschool at our houses. It was so great! Mckenna has many memories from her friends there.

Next year she will go to kindergarten, which will be all day long. I'm not very excited about it, that's a long time!

Boys Weekend

In September, a few of my siblings and my parents met at our house. We had planned a girls/boys weekend. The boys went hiking and backpacking for 3 days and came home tired. The girls stayed at our house with 6 kids under the age of 4. By the end, we were just as tired as the boys. Don't worry, a true girls weekend without the kids is in the works! We definitely had a lot of fun and made lots of memories.  I'm so glad my girls have cousins so close and that we get to see them often.

                     (Levi was pointing out a bug on the porch. Poor little guy was the only boy here)