This was the first summer since Jackson was born that we didn't have an event out west that we needed to travel home for. We had Michael leaving on his mission 3 years ago, Troy and Tammy got married 2 years ago, Michael got home last summer and this year life calmed down. With all of Tyler's siblings married and now my family just has Steven to go on a mission and get married, which is quite a few years down the road luckily :) But this summer wouldn't have been complete without a trip out west to see our family! So we worked this year's travels around a trade show in San Diego that Tyler was going to for work. It was the last week of June and came at a perfect time for everyone to meet up! So the Christensen's (minus my dad and Ben) all met down in Dana Point in a condo right on the beach!
It was a fun week and our first real one with our new sister-in-law Annika! We had all been together in May for Ben's graduation but didn't get to see M&A much then since they didn't stay as long so it was great to get together with them all!
We had quite the adventure just making it to the airport in Connecticut but luckily we got there on time, barely and found out our flight was delayed anyways... Luckily we barely made our layover in Chicago and even more luckily both kids fell asleep very quickly after that flight took off and we had a very easy travel situation!
That night we stayed at a hotel right by the San Diego airport and the next morning got to spend some time with Tyler's Grandma Carol while we waited for the rest of my family to drive to Cali.
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| Kids playing at a park by Carol's house. |
We spent most of our time at the beach or the pool and Tyler had to fit in a few work days but we were still able to have fun with him too!
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| Night in Laguna |
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| The girls! (plus william) |
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| Abbie loved taking it all in, William explored it all and Jackson wanted to do whatever the big boys did! |
Are you noticing that Abbie points a lot? She doesn't say much but she shows you what she wants!
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| Still in shock about this night, Jackson fell asleep driving to dinner and never woke up! |
Of course the trip wouldn't have been complete without a trip to Fashion Island, I think we went twice. Jackson had fun arranging all the penguins in the penguin store to make a family.
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| William's first time swimming! |
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| Jackson's first time swimming since we moved from Florida! |
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| He stole my glasses and struck a pose! |
Jackson had a lot of fun digging in the sand and playing with his family and not as much time in the water since it's much colder than he was used to in Florida! By the last day he finally got in the water willingly!
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| We got lucky with this condo we rented here! Great location! |
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| Our last beach day :( |
We had a great trip and also took Jackson to the new Pixar movie, Monsters University! He liked it even though he was a little scared of the
monsters at times. And luckily Abbie slept in her car seat during the
whole thing! Tyler
left a couple days before we did to do some work up in Utah. And then
the rest of my family and I all drove up to Utah together!
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| This drive was one for the record books... Jackson won the easiest kid award. Abbie the opposite... |
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