April 2023

We were so fortunate to be able to visit California for two and a half weeks in March/April.  We tried a new way to get to the airport this trip.

  

The first part was to walk on the ferry in Bremerton.  We all have our own luggage..thank you Santa.

Ferry ride

Running:)

From the ferry we walked a few blocks and took the light rail to the airport

Getting on the plane

The plane ride

Dinner at our favorite Mexican place 

The kids love the mornings. They get to watch their tablet and Grandma makes them breakfast

Wine tasting with Alice and David. So much fun.  This is Carhartt's tasting room.  Great wooden furniture they make and sell. Wines were yummy too.

Another winery with Alice and David

We went to the Hitching Post for dinner.  It was in the movie Sideways.

Having cocktails at the bar

Grandma and Grandpa took the kids to the park when we went wine tasting.

How cute is she cuddling with Bunny

Matching Tie Dye

Quick hair cut by Dad

The Easter Bunny gave us all white shirts and a Dye Tie kit. We had a lot of fun making the shirts and socks.

Relaxing at Grandma and Grandpa's

Tie Dye came out awesome

Eating dinner at Blast 825...we love this place

Can't get enough pictures of sleeping kids

Ice cream after dinner

We were at dinner and the kids got a bit bored..so they took some pictures

Practicing softball with Dad at the park

Having some fun with Dad at the park

Dinner with Shelley and David

Their neighbor has a pet turkey named Bob

Here is Bob watching us through the fence.

Playing at the park

Sleeping

Making our Tie Dye outfits

Ice Cream from the ice cream truck on Easter

Easter Egg hunt at church

Having fun playing in the backyard

Easter morning

Note left by the Easter Bunny

Note left by Alexis to the Easter Bunny

Wine tasting with Sherri and Sony

Ping Pong with Cousins

Giving cousin Cade a hug

BBQ at Renee's

Wine tasting

Wine tasting

Seeing a theme...wine tasting

Park

Making juice from tangerines 

The cats missed us.  Max is hanging out in Alexis's room with her stuffed animals

Midnight was on her bed

Checkers with Grandma (or Chuckers as the kids call it)

Funny faces with Dad

Having dessert

Checkers with Grandma

The arcade at the mall

Pizza with the family

The cats missing us..thanks Mom for loving them while we were gone

Sleeping kids:)

We met Alice and David for dinner and a fire pit on the ocean.  Kids having fun with David

S'mores

Hard to eat when you are missing your front teeth

Flight home

Light rail home

School pictures

Softball

STEM day at school

Max loves the kids so much

Field trip to watch a play

Baseball

Carter and Cole

Max being cute

Birthday party fun

Lego club

Baseball pictures

Kindness club

Plant Sale...annual fundraiser for the PTA.  We grilled hot dogs

Alexis and her friends having fun

Cole and Brody enjoying some chips

The bounce house and sunset. The event is over

The owners of the nursery giving us our check.

Practicing baseball

We planted some flowers this last weekend.  Spring is here

We had such a great March and April.  It was so nice to see everyone in CA. Thank you so much Alice, David, Sheri and Sonny for meet with us. Thank you to all our family that made the effort to get together. And a big thank you to Nana for watching our home and cats in Washington. Thank you to Sherron and Bob for hosting us for such a long time.  We love you all.