The Rodgers Family
We arrived on Saturday, June 8th - so after we got all settled in and made a huge trip to Costco for everyone - we waited for everyone to finish arriving and then Jared and I left the kids with my parents so we could go out and celebrate our anniversary. We ended up in La Jolla eating at a fun little mexican restaurant, shopped at Lulu and then walked around and ate some dessert!
Before we went inside - Mr. Eli requested a picture to be taken of himself...
panning for gold...
Up at the top of the tower - you could look out over Old Town San Diego
The Temple
After we all made our way back to the beach house we hung around the rest of the day playing games and eating food.
That night we went out on a grunion run hunt - we were not successful :(
Monday was Ashley's birthday - her and Blake went and spent the day together - the rest of us were beach bums. I ran in the morning and then we just chilled by the ocean and had a relaxing day.
Eli made me a beautiful bracelet out of sea weed and a shell - it was actually quite impressive - it broke - but it was awesome while it lasted :)
Boogie boarding became quite popular throughout the week and we ended up going to costco and buying more so more people could use them at the same time -there may have been a neighbor who stole ours, but Jared and Blake walked out to the beach and took them right back - muhahaha!
That night after dinner we took the Jensens and whoever else wanted to join us on our traditional Monday night stop at Sea Port Village for walking around and taffy! We ran into this sword swallowing guy and kids sat and watched him for quite a while...
Nice "hookers" Tyler and Tyson
Tuesday was the twins birthday - so we just hung out at the beach some more and let them kinda do whatever they wanted and had Phil's BBQ, dessert and opened presents!
I watched people play sand volleyball out the big window every day - finally we went down there and joined in some game and then the kids played around us while we played...
Emma and Alyza
Eli and Alyza
Emma did Ashley and Caryn's hair - just like hers
Little Tyson chillin' on the chair playing with his new Jake and the Neverland Pirate treasure chest he got for his birthday
Cade was the only one willing to go with Emma on the roller coaster in Belmont Park
For the twins birthday we also gave them tickets to Legoland (I did a separate post for that), but while we were at Legoland - grandma and grandpa took Emma and Eli to Belmont Park and bought them passes so they could ride all day long, then they got ice cream on the pier and were spoiled of course!
Friday was a beach day as well!
The completed sand castle and all those who helped build it...
photo bomber...
sea weed poop...
The day Conner decided not to put his feet in the sand...
Saturday finally came and it was sad to go home...Rj and Jen had to leave on Tuesday so we didn't get a picture of them in front of the beach house..
Ashley and Blake
