Monthly Archives: October 2015

I know you’re all ready to get back to our regularly scheduled programming, but first our trip home…. here are some highlights of our 24 hour trip. Here we are hopeful at the airport that all would go smoothly.  Our trip home was longer than the way there or so it felt. We flew UnitedContinue reading “The long road home”

Are you ready to get back to our regularly scheduled programming? How have you survived without updates on sleeping and potty training. It’s been hard I’m sure! But don’t worry we’re almost there. With the end of our looooong vacation looming I normally would have been bummed but we were lucky enough to have Gabby,Continue reading “Farewell America”

One of the things I love about Randy is that he challenges me to do things that I would never in a million years do on my own.  One of the number one things that Randy always manages to convince me to do is drive down dirt roads (I bet you all thought I wasContinue reading “Off Roading”

The next day we headed off and tried again to head to Big Sur. This time we made it! We had driven down Route One a lot over the past couple of weeks but this was the first time we made it past Carmel and the views were amazing! Randy and I had driven downContinue reading “Big Sur”

After the Ley’s left we decided we needed a pick me up and we headed out to Big Sur for the day.  We were a little over half way when a state trooper stopped us and made us turn around. Route one was closed (still have no idea why) and we couldn’t get to BigContinue reading “17 miles of beauty”

Have  you had enough of our vacation photos? Well people, we’re almost there! We’re on the last week of our seven week trip! And there is so much to catch you up on in Manila but for now back to vacation land and beautiful Cali.   While in the U.S. we managed to see peopleContinue reading “Go Fish”

We of course had to take some family pics before the Leys headed back to Detroit! Sandra got the boys these awesome shirts so all these little peanuts had matching shirts and were so cute!  We took some practice shots while waiting for the Leys to come over for our last night together.  Ever wonderContinue reading “Four little ants sitting on a log”

Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip,that started from this tropic port, aboard this tiny ship. This ship had three skippers who always think they’re in charge, four parents who think they’re in charge but never are and one toddler who actually is in charge.  Oh yeah, and thisContinue reading “A Three Hour Tour”

We decided that we had to take the Leys to the beautiful Redwood forest was had seen.  We were so excited to be back.  And we all were even more excited that Roman, Isla, Sandra and Shawn were there with us! We headed off and all the little ones decided they needed walking sticks, whichContinue reading “Back to the Redwoods”

40 minutes away from the house we stayed at in Capitola was the Monterey aquarium.  We held out until the Leys arrived and then excitedly all headed down to visit the aquarium together.  Right when we arrived at the aquarium they were feeding the sharks! Later that day when we asked Adam what his favoriteContinue reading “Thrill Seekers”