Monday, September 14, 2009

Our summer vacation

Thank you for sending my camera back to me Kimberly! So, now here are a few photos from our summer vacation from a couple of months ago...

We first went to California and spent our first day at Knotts Berry. The next day we went to the Arboredum (a bird sanctuary and botanical garden).
Next, we went to Santa Monica Beach. Justin was pretty proud of the sand castle that he helped the kids with. (notice the suspended bridge.)
The kids had such a great time playing at the beach.



We stayed with my sister-in-laws parents in Pasedena California. This is their house. Just kidding. Actually, it's the one across the street from theirs. We got to go over and take a peak while the gardeners were there. This also happens to be where the Princess Diaries was filmed. It was pretty cool to see. The kids had a great time running through the gardens.
This is the stained glass in one of the gazebos.
Here we are at Jackson Hole.
We went to Bear world near Yellowstone and got to see a lot of bears. This is one of the cutest ones...
No wait, I mean this is the cutest one...


Next we went to Yellowstone.
Jake and Kailey still hanging on to their souveniers from Bear World...
No Yellowstone trip is complete without a picture in front of Old Faithful.

4 comments:

Richard and Jeannie Griffin said...

Glad you got your camera back but even more glad to see your vacation photos. (Only Justin would build a sand castle with a suspension bridge. I thought he was an attorney not an engineer. . . ?) Everyone looks like they had a great time. Pictures are worth a thousand words (or more.) Love the one of Jake and Kailey in front of Old Faithful and Gavin in the bear hat. Hope the next baby is a cute as your other three kids. Love, Dad

Darci said...

Hey man! "Cup size!" HA! Why didn't I think of that?! You crack me up! I love your vacation pics...you can tell your kids really love each other! They are precious! What are your kids going to be for Halloween?

Kimberly said...

I'm so glad that you got your camera back safely!! Whew! Those are some great pictures of you guys at the beach. I love the huge smile on Gavin's face crawling through the sand! It was so much fun doing Yellowstone with you guys, I miss you! Welcome back to the blogging world!

Pamela said...

Hey Sister Pooh, I'm sooo glad to be back to view your blogs! Were you the one responsible for the suspended bridge? Nice sand castle, a work of art for sure. Darling pictures of Gavin racing away from the huge, menacing looking giant sand crab, [aka Justin]! WOW! That's some house and garden. Reminds me of our summer home in France. tee hee! You can bet your sweet booties that Gavin IS the cutest bear and Jakers gave me a small heart attack with his head in that bears mouth! Your pictures of Old Faithful are much more interesting than mine...Kailey Girl and Jakers gives Old Faithful a much better reason for seeing it! I, too, am glad that you got your camera back. Hope to see thousands of pictures now! No excuses! Grandma and Grandpa LOVE the pictures! Love ya sweetheart, talk with you soon. Muver