Our Trip!!

We decided to take a little trip to San Deigo for Joel's spring break! This was our first vacation as a family, with just us! This is going to be long, wordy, and probably broken up into a couple posts. But I use this blog as a template for my scrapbooking/project life. So the details help me more then anything else! :)
Tuesday March 12, we left our house at 5pm. We loaded up the kids, and got on the road!

I saw a few ideas on Pinterest with some tips about road trips with kids. I utilized a few of them. Snack (wipes) box was a huge hit! He loved getting to pick what he wanted for being a good boy! Another awesome idea I saw was of course bringing new toys/movies/ activities.... but for older kids.... wrapping them. Jaxon totally loved that! Instead of just handing back a new toy or something. I told him for being a good boy I had a present for him. He was pretty excited to unwrap a present in the car!

 

 

 Both kids were pretty good in the car, but there is no way we could have done the whole drive in 1 day (about 11 hours). So we stayed at the half way point in Vegas! We stopped in Beaver, ate dinner, and made it to Vegas at about 10pm. Jaxon mostly played some new games on my iPad, watched movies, and of course had some snacks. Carson slept a lot of the time, but he also played with a ton of toys.
I am married to 1, and gave birth to 2 water boys... we just had to swim before we left the hotel. So right after breakfast we headed to the pool for a quick swim! It was 8:30 am..... so we were the only ones there of course! :)

We got to our hotel in San Deigo at about 4, dropped our stuff off in our AMAZING room, and headed to Coronado! It was literally a 10 minute drive from our hotel. That little island is beautiful! We let the boys play in the sand until it was almost dark.

Digging for "treasure"!

We found this hole someone had dug. Jaxon was SOOOO excited! He called it a Dinosaur Nest!

His first time at the beach!

Didn't know if he liked the shovel or the sand more.

Such a happy boy. He was clapping watching his brother play.

We didn't put the boys in swimsuits because we knew the water would be freezing. But Joel and Jaxon just HAD to get in! His shorts we soaking wet, but he loved it. :)

We are a beach family! Wish we lived by one! 

More pictures to come! ;)