Pacifica

Josh and I decided we need a little family vacation with the kids. We planned a weekend in Pacifica. The kids and I drove to Oakland and picked up Josh at work. The kids were super excited to go and see where daddy works. 

The drive to Oakland took a long time because there was an accident, so we sat in traffic for quite a while.  The kids fell asleep!

Mckinley fought the urge to sleep all the way until we were 10 minutes from Josh's work.

We finally made it to pick up Josh. He showed us all around and the kids loved it. They were a little nervous about the cells, but they got over it. We left Josh's work an headed to the hotel. Once we were in the room the kids were going crazy. They were SO SUPER excited!

We got all settled into our room then headed out to find some dinner. Mckinley was stilling be crazy and Josh was constantly trying to hold her back. The faces this little girl makes us super cute! 

After dinner we headed to the pool!

Ready to go swimming!

The kids loved the water. Mckinley wasn't completely into the pool, but she loved the hot tub!

The view from our room at sunset!

Our view in the morning!

We got up, got some food then headed to the beach for the day!

Auntie Shannon and two of her friends came to the beach and played with us, and so our friends the Toutai's came and played at the beach. (I didn't take and pictures though) Around 3:30 the wind decided to pick up and the sand was hurting us all. We decided to all pack up and head back to our hotel to go swimming in the pool. 

Payton and Mo swimming in their life jackets.

Lo and V swimming around.

Payton and Mapuana having a conversation about something. Shannon and her friends headed off to their concert while we swam. After swimming we headed out to dinner with the Toutai's. After we were finished we said bye and we went back to the hotel and relaxed for the night. It was a lot of fun!

The next day we headed to the San Francisco Zoo. None of us had been there before so it was all new. The weather was nice not too hot and not too cold.  We saw all types of animals and the kids loved it.

We rented a little jeep so we didn't have to listen to the kids whining about having to walk a lot.

Checking out the prairie dogs.

Josh took Payton and Scarlett into the petting zoo and Mckinley and I stayed out and waited for them. I really don't love petting zoo's.

Holding the map was a constant fight with my kids. Payton just studied that thing the while time and was really good about telling us what we would be seeing next. Scarlett didn't like him having that attention so she just wanted to hold it. I had no idea the map would have been so popular otherwise we would have gotten 2.

Checking out the giraffe

They had the zebra's and giraffe's together

The new baby giraffe

The momma tiger with her new baby tiger

The drive home was very peaceful. The kids had a blast on our vacation and we successfully tired them out.  Over all it was a blast and I am very lucky to be blessed with such a wonderful family!