First Family of 3 Vacation!

Josh finished up his next to last official quarter last Friday and had this week off before starting his last quarter this coming Monday. Since he had so much time off and we don't have much time left here we decided to take advantage of it and visit San Diego while are still here! We absolutely LOVED it!

We left Monterey on Sunday and headed for SD...it took us about 8 hours total to get there! We were a little nervous to be traveling with a 4 month old who is bf but she did WONDERFUL! We decided to leave early since she is happiest in the am and most cooperative! We drove for 3 hours which was halfway mileage wise...and stopped for lunch and to let Adah get out of her carseat and get a clean diaper on....she slept the whole first 3 hours! We got back on the road after lunch and stopped about 1.5 hours later for a diaper change and then one more time about 45min outside of SD at a Vista look out point. We made it to SD around 4pm...got to the hotel and set up the pack n play then went out and got some dinner to bring back to the room! Unfortuntly we didn't realize that staying in a hotel with a baby ment that when she goes to bed all must be quiet...lights out...so Josh and I laid in the dark playing on our phones and on the computer watching the Cowboys game w/o the sound on!

Since there are several pictures and stories to tell about each day, I will do each day as its own post. The first day we went to Sea World...the second day was the zoo and Coronado Island.

Here are a few pics of Adah from the trip to hold you over until I can get the other posts and pictures up!

Mommy and Adah the morning we left! I was paying attention to Josh and Adah was actually looking at the camera...go figure!

This has nothing to do with the trip but I wanted to put it up for Uncle Josh since he got this for Adah! Wreck 'em!
Adah on the car ride to SD....watching her Video on my laptop...thanks G-pa and Nana!
This is what Adah thinks of her first trip to Chick Fil A!
Excited to be in SD!

Such a big girl!

Adah set up today with the assistance of her boppy for about a min! She is getting so big! she loved to sit up on her own and would be so happy everytime we sat her back up after falling over! Such a big girl!

We just got home last night from our first family vacation! I will post all about it with pictures later tonight after Adah goes to bed!

So happy to be sitting up...starting to fall here!
"Holy moly! I'm doing it! This is pretty cool!"

Giggles for Daddy!

Two post in one day...watch out! I just couldn't pass up sharing this one with the grandparents/great grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc! Adah laughed for the 3rd time today....I know that seems silly to post about but it was the first time that Josh got to hear her laugh! He was so excited! He was upstairs changing her and all of the sudden he yells "Hun...COME HERE!" I thought oh crap...either she pooped all over everything...there is alot of blood in her stool....etc. I get up there and he goes "I think she laughed"! Sure enough she was laughing at Daddy trying to teach her how to say baa baa! I guess daddy is pretty funny looking! I ran down stairs and grabbed his phone cause it is the easier to take videos with and upload than the camera! Here is a short clip of her laughing a little...by the time I got up there with the phone Daddy wasn't so funny anymore so I had to resort to my trick of putting her foot in her face/mouth!

What a difference a year makes!

Josh and I can not even believe it has been 1 year since we woke up that Friday morning September 19, 2008 and decided that we should take the test....scared to death and excited at the same time I saw this:

Today, exactly 1 year later I woke up not scared but more in LOVE than I could have ever imagined...instead of walking into the bathroom I walked into the "guest" room and saw this:

God is good! Josh and I are so blessed that He chose us to be parents of such a beautiful little girl!

It is hard to believe that a year ago we started this journey and here we are today with a 4 month old!