New house....ONCE AGAIN!!

Hopefully this will be the last time we move for a while! We loved being on the east coast for the last 4 years and we miss all the wonderful friends we made in Charleston, SC and D.C. area...but we are happy to be back home in California. This time we live right by Bremen's base near downtown San Diego and we love it!
This is one of the few really settled rooms....

This is our house, built in 1923.

Our 39 steps leading up to the house.

It's a hike, but we love the view ;)

Our trip up the California coast

I've missed these places for years!!! Now that we're back in California, we decided to take our kids up the coast to the places we've always loved visiting.~ The Ventura Harbor~ we love eating at Andria's....fish & chips and clam chowder...yum!

~ Solvang~ one of my favorite places ever! This place is full of memories for me...going with my family or with Sue & Brittany or Norma & Rach and all with Oma (my mom) too ofcourse!!

~ The Madonna Inn, San Luis Obispo~ such a fun place....super eccentric! We had to get a couple of their one of a kind goblets to add to our collection :)

~Cannery Row, Monterey~

~Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey~

hello again Disneyland....we missed you ;)

Yay! Our first trip back to Disneyland!! I even got the girls new princess Tiana dresses so they could dress up for our fun day the way Lexi always used to. Lily loved it, no surprise since she lives in a princess dress most days anyway. But Lexi wasn't too into it anymore~ halfway through the day she wanted to be comfortable rather than all princessed out.


Van's first trip to Disneyland! Look how excited this kid is....he doesn't even realize how fun it is once you get past the entrance!! ;D

Gotta get pictures with characters! Van looks a bit disturbed....

~my little mouseketeer~

American Girl Place

One of our favorite places to bring our girls in California and New York is the American Girl store. So when we found ourselves in California finally for their birthdays we decided we HAD to go! The girls loved celebrating with Oma and their dolls too ;)