The Last of the San Diego Photos

Here are the rest of the photos from San Diego in January. The first few pictures are from one day that the boys were playing with the stroller and decided to take a walk (inside my parents’ house), and they wanted me to take pictures of them on their walk. Isaac enjoyed sitting in the stroller basket for that little walk too.

The next set of pictures is from a day that we all walked with my mom to a nearby playground at Patriot Park, which is a nice little park that is right next to the elementary school in my parents’ neighborhood (the school that Kolby would go to if we happened to end up in San Diego for Michael’s transition year). I loved the fact that we were playing barefoot in the sand while it was blizzarding at negative temperatures in Milwaukee.

And the next big batch of photos in this slideshow is the day that we went down to Old Town for the Mormon Battalion anniversary. There were all sorts of fun little pioneer activities that the boys had fun doing, including making their own rope, making bricks, making pioneer (boy) dolls, cooking their own biscuits, drinking buttermilk, dressing up like pioneers, and panning for gold.

I took a few pictures of Isaac in his blessing outfit that my mom made while he was laying on the blanket that my dad and all of my boys have used on their blessing days. I couldn’t believe it when I realized that I had brought that little blanket all the way across the country to use on Isaac’s blessing day and I had forgotten to get it out for the blessing. But I still had to have some photos of him with it.

And the rest of the pictures are of the little birthday party that my family threw for Eli the night before we left San Diego. He adored that Elmo balloon that my mom got him, and he even took it all the way through airport security the next day until it popped in the airport. He also got a really fun little train track for his train set that has gates that open and close and it makes different train noises. All the boys were excited about that toy.

That trip sure was fun! The only bad thing about it was that Michael spent so much time interviewing that once we reached the last week of our stay in San Diego I felt like we really got to start vacationing with Michael there too, and then we had to leave before too long. (Don’t get me wrong – I’m not complaining that Michael got several interview invitations, but when he’s away I always miss him).

So, there it is. All caught up on the photos from our trip. That wasn’t too much work to get those all posted. Now I just need to get caught up on posting all of the photos from the last two months since we’ve been back in Wisconsin.