San Diego 2014

We just got back from our wonderful family vacation to San Diego.  It was such a great trip and it sure is hard to get back into the swing of things and super hard to wrap my mind around the realization that summer is officially over tomorrow!  We left for San Diego on August 3rd well actually we left for Fresno.  Since our flight (yes I'm finally getting to take my kids on an airplane!) left really early Monday the 4th we decided it would be best to start the vacation early and head down and stayed in Fresno the night before.  We stayed at a hotel that was literally right next to the airport.  Lets just say the pictures of Piccadilly Inn on-line looked a lot better than in person.  It was not horrible but definitely not as nice as I'm use too.  We checked in drooped off our suitcases and headed to the Fresno mall and to Cheesecake Factory for dinner.  

 We came back to the hotel and watched a movie and tried to go to bed early since our wake up call was for 4:30am.  The family seemed to have slept pretty good but I was up all night excited and anxious for our next day.  4:30am came fast and we all got up dressed, packed and headed to the airport.  I was very excited that we were flying.  It had been 6 years since I last was on a plane and for someone that use to be a flight attendant it had been way to long.  The airport was so much fun and made me miss living in a bigger town near a "real" airport.    

The kids did great through security and pulling their own bags.  We enjoyed a pastry breakfast at Starbucks and watched the sun rise by our gate.

Finally time to board the plane.  We were all very excited!

The flight went quick and it went really great!  The kids are natural travelers! 

After our flight we headed over to the rental car place got the car and headed for Carlsbad to check in to the hotel.  We were back in forth on our plans since we got in to San Diego at 10am we had a full day of excitement ahead of us.  We decided that we were very excited to check out LegoLand so after checking out our beautiful hotel, The West Inn and Suites we hopped on the hotel shuttle for LegoLand. 

Our first day at the park was lots of fun but a bit over whelming since it was our first time there.  We are use to Disneyland which we know the map like the back of our hands.  We got lost a couple times and didn't know which lines we should wait in and which ones were not worth the wait.  We did get to check out a lot of things and map out what we wanted to the next day.  We were all very tired from the early flight and it was probably the hottest day of our whole vacation so that might have added to our stress.  Also Monday ended up being the crowdest day in the park all week too.  We ended up leaving the park around 2 and going back to the hotel to swim and then out to dinner.   

We got a great night of sleep and Tuesday our second day in LegoLand was awesome!!

We loved all matching in our tie dyes and so did everyone else, we got lots of complements. We got to the park at 9am and they open certain areas at different times so it was nice to do one area and then go to a different area right when they opened.

The kids loved putting a car together and racing it.

One of the rides the kids were so excited about was driving their own cars and getting a drivers licence.  Carter got to drive on the 3-5 side and Aubrey on 6 and up side.  Both kids did so great.  Carter lapped all the others in his area he was such a good driver.

The Lego statues are amazing.  Everything in the park is made of Lego's it's really cool.

We then went on our first roller coaster I think it was called the Dragon.  Carter loved it Aubrey hated it.  Carter is definitely more our adventurist one which was a little sad since he is not 42 inches yet so we didn't get a chance to go on a couple of the other ones in the park.  We were proud of Aubrey for trying it. 

You can kind of see in our ride picture the difference between the two of them.

We left the park around 1 that day for lunch and swimming.

Our hotel was so wonderful and we now know why it was rated best family vacation spot in Carlsbad.  The staff was wonderful, the pool area beautiful, the room gorgeous, spacious and comfortable and the yummy hot breakfast and milk and cookies at night was icing on the cake.  Oh pool and beach toys to play with anytime was also a huge perk. 

After a relaxing afternoon we headed back to the park for the evening time and to eat dinner.  Aubrey was very excited for the safari ride she even wanted to wear her cheetah shirt that night.

We then got to tour the actual set from The Lego Movie.  This was really cool!! 

The double decker couch was our favortie :)

Tuesday was so much less crowded so we got to ride all the rides we wanted to do and even some a couple times.

The Lego miniland was really cool.  They had pretty much every big city in the world built out of Lego's.

Tuesday was a great day.  

Wednesday was our water park day.  Unfortunately since water was involved I didn't bring the camera.  I did snap this photo with my phone but then left my phone with our towels for the day.  

The water park was really cool and perfect for our little ones.  There where a few big slides that Carter was too short for but that was fine since we all wanted to stick together on the smaller stuff.  The kids loved it and since we got there early in the day it was not crowded at all.  Aubrey did get her first bee sting that day which was a big bummer but she was brave and after 5 minutes she was up and running again.  They had a really neat area to build a boat out of Lego's and race it where we spent a lot of time. The kids favorite was the alligator slide in the new Chima area.  I think daddy and I's favorite area was the lazy river were we just rode on rafts and relaxed.  After our water day we came back to the hotel and got dressed and walked around the Carlsbad outlets.

That night we tried the bistro at our hotel for dinner.  It's a 5 star restaurant and it was very good.  We love going out and trying new places but it was a little more challenging trying to find places that the kids would enjoy too.  This place was family friendly but still was fine dinning which made for a nice treat.

Thursday beach day!

What can I say it was perfect.  Feet in the sand, watching the kids build sand castles, collecting sea shells, hearing the waves and laying in the sun.  It was great!

Dinner was Ruby's diner that night.  The Oreo shake was so yummy and watching the train go around the restaurant was fun too.

After dinner we went to the aquarium at Legoland.  We heard that it was small and not that great but we actually really liked it.  Lots of hands on stuff and they had a fun quiz that the kids (well actually I) did trough out the whole thing to earn a prize at the end.

Aubrey got to make a fish craft at one station.

Carter and daddy built this.....

J/K it does look like they built it though.

The shark walk through was way cool.

It was a really neat place. Then back into LegoLand for our last night :(  

This firetruck ride was so funny.

You race 3 other families in trucks and then fight a fire.  Our super muscular daddy got the truck to the other end before the 3 other trucks moved 1 inch.  Aubrey was so proud of her daddy.   

That night we rode all our favorites one last time and had the best churros dipped in chocolate for dessert.  

Good bye LegoLand.  

We had fun and made a ton of great memories.  When we got back to the hotel the front desk called us the Supinger party animals.  I took that as a compliment we did party all week and had a blast doing it! 

Friday morning we slept in and enjoyed our last breakfast at our hotel.  We then packed up and headed for the San Diego Zoo. 

We were excited to check out the zoo with the kids.  Spencer and I had gone 6 years ago and I went as a kid so it was nice to go back and see all the amazing animals.  It was a lot of walking but the weather was perfect and we did spend a lot of time on the double decker bus.  The weeks leading up to our trip the kids and I watched some of the animals on web cams they have so it was fun seeing them in person.  The baby orangutan and mommy was my favorite.

Aubrey's favorite was the panda bear.

Carter and daddy loved the insect room and the giraffes.

It was a really fun day at the zoo.  It was sad as the day came to end since that meant our vacation was coming to end.  

We headed downtown for dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory.

Then to dropping the rental car off and back to the airport.  Our flight didn't leave until 9:50pm that night so it was a late night.  The kids did great sitting together on the airplane and we got compliments about how well behaved they were.

The kids did fall sleep in the car on the way home.  We pulled into home around 1am.  It was a great vacation.  I feel like we did so much , saw a lot but still had time to relax.  The kids had a blast and Carter still asks if we can go to LegoLand tomorrow.  Aubrey asked me yesterday, "when we go to Disneyland next summer can we fly?"  I see lots of fun air travel in our future.  We feel so blessed and lucky that everything went smooth and it was a wonderful week! 

Now on to planning our next family vacation! 

July 2014 Fun

So besides an awesome 4th of July, a great Nana &Papa camp and a special anniversary we also did a bunch of other fun things in July.

Saturday July 19th we had a garage sale.  The kids did great with there charm and sold all their donuts, cookies and 2 pitchers of lemonade.  As for our stuff we did okay we have done better in the past.  We made about $150 which really is not that bad considering we were just out from 7am-10am.

 Sunday afternoon that same weekend Spencer and I though it would be fun to try and make beignets they came out great and were so good!!!! 

I have been wanting to check out the cutest pink food truck parked in our Walgreen's parking lot for a while now.  The kids and I stoped by the other day on our way to the pool it's called the The Cupcake Lady and she has a huge variety of cupcakes.  The chocolate chip cookie dough called my name and the kids were excited about the gummy worms and sponge bob (even though I don't let the watch that show).

 We got daddy one too and took it to his work.  They were yummy but I think since our Titi is a baker we have had better.  It was fun to try.

Swimming with friends has been so much fun this summer!! I'm amazed at how well the kids are doing and how much courage they have to jump of diving boards.

 Our gym membership has gotten a lot of use and it has been become our regular hang out lately.

At church I was released from Relief Society 2nd counselor  and called to the Primary Presidency as 2nd counselor in there.  I'm excited for this new calling and being in primary with my kids.  Relief Society has been fun and I will miss it but I'm excited for the change. Wednesday July 23rd was my last Relief Society Activity that I planed.  It was a friendship get to know you night.  The invite said come aboard the friendship express.  I set it up like speed dating and each sister had 5 minutes to chat/ask questions and then we rotated.  Since it's the middle of summer we only had 10 sisters but it was a good small group and we had fun.  Daddy took the kids to the gym that night and they got their faces painted. 

Thursday July 24th daddy took the afternoon off and we started on a little back to school shopping.  I mean really just a little I'm in denial that the summer is coming to an end so soon.  

Since probably April Aubrey has been talking about light up shoes for when she starts 1st grade.  She was very excited to get these new shoes but super mad that I'm making her wait for the first day of school.

 I have loved how Carter looks with spiky hair since he was a baby but all of sudden he is so into flatting his hair. He wants it super flat! He would spend over 10 minutes in the bathroom if I let him brushing his hair down as flat as possible.  He is very funny about this new hair obsession.

Also Thursday the 24th myself and Murun planned a baby shower for our good friend Susan and her new baby Noah.  We did the shower at Murun's house.  It was a fun night.

 I'm so happy with Lowe's!! It's so cool that they do these free kids workshops every other Saturday! The kids just love them and so have we.

 We have had our far share of play dates with friends through out July too. We have also had a lot of meet ups at the gym pool and going to the $1 movies on Tuesday and Wednesdays.

July was a fun month!!!

So after loading all these pictures from my phone onto the computer I realized that I might have forgot something really important!! I think I might have posted it but if not but just in case: 

Mr. Supinger got teacher of the year at Merced college!! 

We were so proud of our math professor.  Spencer loves this job.  He is a great teacher and it is so fun to see his students around town and them tell me his is there most favorite teacher.   

It feels like just yesterday.......

 that I married my high school sweet heart but really it was 9 years ago!!!!! It's crazy how fast the time has flied and how we still feel like newlyweds.  July 30th was our actual day.  Our wedding was beautiful and everything I could have asked for.  I love thinking of that day and sharing the pictures, videos and memories with our children.  I love that I have got to call my soul mate my hubby for 9 years and I can't wait to call him that forever!

We were in the process of planning an away trip but decided since our summer vacation is coming up to save it for in the fall or around Christmas time.  We did get to have a date night and get a baby sitter Wednesday (7/30) so we could enjoy a kids free dinner together at Pocket 8's.

I love this man more than words!