California Vacation!!

We had planned this trip for a good 6 -9 months and were all so excited to get there! We stopped in LV on our way Friday night and then got to Oxnard Saturday evening, stocked up on groceries at Costco and then got to our beach house. We went down and saw the beach really quick then ate dinner had Matt's Bday party and watched a movie.Sunday morning we went to church then went for a stroll on the beach that night.

It was Matt's bday on Friday and their anniversary on Sunday. Love this cute family!

I love my kids!

This kid was loving it the first night... then the wind started to really bug him!

 

Dave was stoked to find a diet coke that said "Dad" we had to take a photo :)

WHALE WATCHING

 Monday we went on a whale watching excursion to the Channel Islands. It was AWESOME! It was 8 hours long and we got to see these crabs... but that was NOTHIN compared to later...

 Later we saw Dolphins...

 Sea Lions...

 a great white shark....

 and Humpback whales!  It was SO MUCH FUN!!! We were loving it. We got some AWESOME video coverage!

This is Katie trying her best to pull this face....

 

We were laughing pretty hard!

                                                        MAGIC MOUNTAIN

                                                           SANTA BARBARA!

Santa Barbara was beautiful! none of us had ever been there and we loved it! It was an awesome town! We went to the pier, went surry riding, had street tacos that were divine and then went to the Santa Barbara courthouse where Psych is filmed. It was a fun day! :)

 

 

On our last day we got to have Chad, Emily and Ella join us! It was so fun! We went to the beach in Oxnard in the morning then we spent the afternoon in Ventura just going in shops and out to lunch! It was so fun to be with these guys! We miss them so much and Ella is such a DOLL!!