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!

Cuteness, Girls Night & Father and Son's

Babies are coming left in right in the Cambra family. Danny and Jacie have Olivia who was born April 4th. Jared and Ashley have Hinckley who was born June 2nd.

Baby Olivia. She is such a doll. I can't wait to meet her.

Typical behavior around our home is lots of lazy days in jammies, playing on the i-pad, watching tv, cleaning, and Mckinley bugging her siblings. 

She just wants some attention. It's too bad she wants it at inconvenient times. 

Our ward had a father and sons campout on a Friday night. So while the fathers and sons were gone we had a mothers and daughters night. Krista, Melanie and Mapuana came over to our house and we had a girls night. 

Our sleeping areas for the night. We stayed up way too late, but it was fun!

Saturday morning we woke up and checked out some garage sales. Mckinley got to ride in a big girl carseat and she loved it.

The fathers came home and the boys were crashed in the car.

Typical sleeping position for Payton. They all had such a blast and Payton talked about it for a few days.

Baby Hinckley hes such a stud and chubby I love it!

Mckinley is changing and growing so much. She is always on the going and getting into everything. These are a couple pictures of her I found on my phone. Sleeping outside while mom is gardening. Helping daddy load the dishwasher.

Hinckley and Olivia meeting for the first time.  I just love all these new baby's and can't wait to meet them soon.

Camping at Pinecrest

The day Payton graduated from kindergarten we packed up and headed to Pinecrest to camp for the weekend. Since it was Memorial Day weekend Josh had Monday off so we got to camp for 3 days. We drove up Friday night and met up with friends. (Drinkwater Family, Toutai Family, and Burk Family)

We had 3 sites for out 4 families all right next to each other. 

We had 1 central eating area which was in the middle of the campsites. I was really bad and didn't take very many pictures until the end. There is proof that we went though. 

Mckinley and Josh enjoying a afternoon nap together.

Scarlett is just gorgeous I think even with a super dirty face.

Scarlett and Mapuana the two big girls in the group of boys. 

Hanging out around the camp fire pit during the day just talking.

Mckinley loved this bike! It was very handing because we could sit her in this and she would just sit and we would have the kids push her around when she would start whining. 

Boys will be boys! How can jumping off rocks be that much fun?!

Ryan, Payton, Austin, Scarlett and Mckinley playing on the rock. 

It wasn't the warmest weather by any means, but some of us got ice cream anyways. Viliami enjoying his giant ice cream cone. 

Everyone went off hiking to the damp so Me, Krista, Scarlett, and Mckinley stayed back. I wasn't thrilled about the idea of hiking with these girls. So we went and played down at the water. It was sunny and beautiful, but chilly. The cold didn't stop Scarlett from getting in. 

We dug around in the sand/dirt for quite a while. The little girls enjoyed that.

Every so often we would drag the porta crib out of the tent so we could have Mckinley play in it. Viliami would want in with her some of the times. It was handy having the two youngest in there then we didn't have to worry so much about where they were. 

The dads and Ryan went of shooting for a few hours and these kids were left to play around the camp 

They each get along pretty good together. It was a fun trip.

 Love family pictures while camping, dirt and all!

 Burk's, Toutai's, Drinkwater's, and Us

All our cute and crazy kids!

While we were camping Mckinley decided she was done breastfeeding. It was very frustrating because she wanted nothing to do with me. I would try and she would just scream more. At this point she still wasn't really drinking out of a sippy cause and she totally refused bottles. We had one sippy cup that a friend had brought so we were trying to use that. She would drink it only once in a while. To say the least it was a little rough and she was hard at nights if she woke up. Plus it was freezing cold at nights! When we got home I tried feeding her again but she still wanted nothing to do with me. So I was done. Just like that, cold turkey. Man my kids have strong opinions. Its a good thing I love them and they are super cute.