San Diego day 2&3

Day 2 we went to Belmont park which was just a few blocks down from where we were staying. They had a fair going on so the kids did some rides, and we ate ice cream and wondered around.

 kids on the merry go round.

 The kids on the boat ride.

 Pax loving the ice cream.

 Love this picture of all my boys, too bad my brother couldn't make it.

My cute mom and dad

Day 3 we went to sea world. We all LOVED it and stayed until it closed.

 Both kids were asleep by the time we got back to the condo.

They got to meet elmo and zoey and the both LOVED it, we even paid for the expensive pictures they take because none of us could believe they weren't totally freaking out. my kids will not go NEAR Santa or the Easter bunny lol

San Diego

So every 2 years my mom gets a condo right on the beach in San  Diego so 2 weeks ago we made the long road trip to San Diego. Why did we drive you ask? when we took paisley for the first time on a plane it was pure HELL im forever traumatized by the experience, and you see this year pax is the same age paisley was when we took her on the plane so i was no going to find out if he would do well on a plane, plus we would have to have paid for a rental car and it ended up being ALLOT cheaper for us to drive then pay for all 4 of us to fly and a rental car for a week. So we left on a Thursday and drove to Vegas that first night. Nothing too exciting happened.

Paisley slept most of the time.

 And surprisingly pax was awake most of the time only slept an hour.

 We stayed at excaliper, paisley thought it was so cool we were in a castle.

Then woke up the next morning and off to San Diego.

The drive from Vegas to San Diego is AWFUL and we got stuck in California traffic that made me car sick, we left at about 10:30am and didnt get to the condo until about 4:00pm.

This was the first view i got when we pulled up the condo, pure heaven.

 The view from our balcony, stunning.

You think with a view like this and being right on the beach it must be heaven, YOUR WRONG, we stayed at pacific beach, which is VERY crowded and has lots of shops and restaurants and bars all along the board walk and right next to us. ALL NIGHT LONG you hear people, music, sirens, etc. you name it, it kept us up ALLOT. I personally would not stay right on the beach again.

The first day we just shopped and played on the beach.

 Me, paisley, and my mom

 Tessa, me , my mom

 Uncle dev and pax

 GG and her grandbabies

 Tessa and Dev

 Tess and Dev most of the time.

 Tessa on the Pier

 Paisley on the Pier

 Uncle dev and pax checking out the water.

 Paisley and grandpa playing on the beach, paisley LOVED the water, even if it was cold.

 Pax didnt like the water, but he loved playing in the sand.

 My sexy husband on the beach.

 uncle dev and the kids playing in the sand.

 me and pax on the beach

 Mean daddy putting pax in the cold water ;)

 Tessa and dev build a little sand castle, i didnt get a picture of the completed one, pax loved stomping on it, little stinker.

 Where did sissys body go?! this freaked pax out lol

Paisley got a mermaid tail.

Later that night we went hunting for sea shells.

My dad imitating all the bums that would be sleeping on the board walk lol

 We found this huge, i dont know what it is thing on the beach, it totally looks like a alien popped out of it, my dad thinks it a root that washed up from the ocean, whatever it is, its creepy.

 Our stash of shells we found that night.

 and the winner was ME, look how huge this shell is i found, i have it in my bedroom right now.

first day down, i will post more later, we were there an entire week so stay tuned!!!!

Meet Gus Gus

I would like to start off saying i did NOT want a puppy, here is the story of how we became new parents to adorable Gus Gus. 

It all started with a harmless text from my sister saying a girl at her work was selling these adorable shnoodle puppies a mix between a schnauzer and a poodle, she asked me if i would go with her to look at them because SHE wanted one, i of course agreed. So after she got off work we went to look at the puppies, it turns out there was only 2 of them. There was of course Gus Gus and his brother who was going to be white. Gus Gus was MUCH cuter then his brother, he is smaller and his chocolate brown coloring is to die for. While we were there my sister called her husband to ask if she could bring him home and he said NO, while she was on the phone the owner of the dogs needed to leave in 5 min. so i started freaking out because i of course fell in love with him so what did my crazy self do???? handed them a check and took off with him. While we were in the car driving home i started freaking out WHAT AM I THINKING i don't want a puppy i already have a dog and 2 kids i cant handle a puppy. My sister calmed me down and said she would talk more to her husband and would hopefully convince him that they wanted him. Well needless to say he did not budge and we ended up taking him home that night. Luckily greg was not mad and late that night went to the store to buy all the necessary puppy items.Paisley was actually the one to name him Gus Gus, and i LOVE it!!! Gus was amazing that first night and surprisingly slept through the night. it put me more at ease that everything was going to be fine with him. But something seemed off with him, for 1. He didn't drink water out of a bowl. 2. He had no teeth yet. 3. He slept ALLOT. 4. He seemed very lethargic for a puppy. so we were a little concerned about him so greg took him to the humane society to get his shots and that's when we found out that he was barley 4 weeks old, puppies should not leave the mom until 6-9 weeks. he was supposed to be getting breast milk from his mom still. and that he wasn't old enough to lap the water in his mouth yet.WHAT??? so off to the store to buy puppy formula and $150.00 later we were set with more goods for this baby. He didn't even weigh a pound yet so he was too little to get shots. I was VERY upset and let the girl have it who sold me the puppy, i felt used like she just took my money and didn't even care about this sweet puppy who was clearly underfed and dehydrated. I started feeling better knowing he was in good hands now and would be taken care of. So we have had him now 2 1/2 weeks and he now weighs a whopping pound lol i was told he will only get 2-4 pounds as an adult so we will see. me and greg think he will be about ellies size which is 5 pounds. I now feel that i was SUPPOSED to have him, he seriously has fit into our family perfectly, him and ellie get along so well and the kids ADORE him. Isn't it funny how things happen sometimes?!

Look at that button nose, so cute.

Ellie and Gus Gus taking a nap together.

 Gus Gus sitting in gregs sandal

 Gus Gus in gregs pocket the day we got him. This just shows you how small he is.