San Diego New Year's trip

 After Christmas, we took a little trip to San Diego. Our friend Katrell suggested we visit Coronado beach and I'm glad we did. What a beautiful place! We also went to the San Diego Zoo and then drove up to Temecula to spend New Year's Eve with Matt and Alisha's family. Happy New Year!

fun @ the beach

This is the layout from our time in San Diego. Gorgeous weather and lots of fun!

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template- Janet Phillips, font- clementine sketch and pacifico, paper- Jessica Sprague, water drops- Anna Aspnes



San Diego: Part 1 of our CA adventure

We started our California trip in San Diego. Aaron and his brother J ran in the half marathon so we spent a day and a half at Pacific Beach. The weather was beautiful! The kids couldn't wait to get in the water and boogie board. My mom joined us on our trip, we were happy to have her :)

chillaxin'

Aaron and the kids. Heston kept calling the birds eagles instead of seagulls...close enough :)


us!
Uncle J burying the kids in the sand

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Paigeykins

On our way up to Anaheim, we stopped in and saw Matt, Alisha and the kids. They cooked us an awesome dinner complete with a fire and S'mores. The kids love hanging out with their cousins...they didn't want to leave ;) Thanks for having us guys, we'll see you soon!

Mission Beach, CA and BYU football game

I'm a little behind here...story of my life!
Last month, we took the RV down to San Diego for the BYU/San Diego State football game. On Friday, we spent the day at Mission Beach. The weather was absolutely perfect! Aaron bought some boogie boards for the kids and they had a blast. It was a fun day hanging out as a family. (I'm cherishing every moment of this stuff because these kids are growing up way too fast)

We went to Qualcomm Stadium on Saturday and did some tailgating before the game. When we went to find our seats, we were pleasantly surprised how close we were to the field.

my poor children...Aaron's turned them to the dark side (the Yankees)
No one tell my Grandma :)

some of the players came by after the game to say Hi to the fans. This is Harvey Unga.

OK now it's time for a helpful tip for all you parents out there that have little ones.

Nacho cheese is a good thing when you want your child to be good during a football game.

Hes will now demonstrate:

Our Disneyland trip

We had a really great time on our trip to Disneyland. It went by too fast but we had lots of fun and rode pretty much every ride in both parks. It was our annual Hammond Family Reunion. This year, Aaron and I were in charge. We just had Heston when it was our turn to plan so we wanted to go somewhere that didn't require a lot of planning. My mom and my brother's girlfriend Ricci and her kids, Hunter and Gavin came too.

Mom took Paige and they picked up this hairpiece and the crown. Ricci does hair so she fixed her hair. She was so excited and it looked cute!

They have this show at Disney that's called Jedi Training. They choose kids from the audience to come up and fight Darth Maul and Darth Vader. If you know Braden, he has been obsessed with Star Wars for years. The funny thing is, he didn't get chosen. He went up on stage anyway.

We went down to Newport Beach to play and then we made our way to Matt (Aaron's bro) and Alisha's house to see them and spend the night before heading home.

The kids loved playing at the beach and I really enjoy taking pictures at the beach. B&P are good sports when it comes to me and my picture taking.

Thanksgiving 2006

We spent our Thanksgiving this year in California with Aaron's older brother Matt and his family. They live in Temecula, it's about an hour north of San Diego. On Friday, we went to the beach in La Jolla to take some family pictures. We were hoping the kids would get a chance to play in the sand and look for seashells but the tide was too high. I didn't get any pictures of my sis-in-law Alisha!!! I need to have her send me some! I need to include some pics of me with my family but I just had a baby 3 months ago and my face still looks like a balloon, need I say more?!

We've been staying busy with school, soccer and other activities. We are looking forward to Christmas. Christmas is so much fun with little kids! Mom always used to tell me that the best times in her life were when Wes and I were little kids during Christmas. We will be spending it here in AZ and then we are planning to go up to Utah after Christmas for about a week. I'm looking forward to going home. I'm looking forward to see my grandma and grandpa. I can't wait for them to meet Heston. Heston's middle name is Robert, after my grandpa. He's so tickled about that and can't wait to meet his little namesake. It will be great to see all my family and friends back home. And to play in the snow for a little bit!