First Beach Day!!!!

What to do in Southern California on a beautiful day?!? Go to the beach!

Daddy and Emily! Love this photo!

Don't let these gorgeous pics fool you though! Who knew a quick day trip to the beach could be so different now that we're parents. First of all I completely over packed. Umbrella shade, bag of towels, large blanket, pack n' play, boppy, diaper bag, blankets for Em, breastfeeding cover, two beach chairs, ice chest, change of clothers for both Em and me, fishing poles, tackle bag. James wanted to go to a beach that was empty so that he could fish from the shore. Where did we end up? Malibu. What time did we finally get to the beach? About 1pm. Was it crowded? Yep. Did James do any fishing? Nope! Was the water cold? It was freezing! What time did we leave? 4pm. It seemed like by the time we parked, I nursed Emily, we set up "camp" and ate lunch it was time for Em to take a nap. But being in such a foreign place she wouldn't sleep. So I ended up nursing her to sleep and she slept on my lap for about 20mins until she woke up because of some noisy neighbors. And by then I was so over this day that I opted for us to go home at 4pm. I knew at the very least Emmy would sleep during the car ride home.

At least we got some cute pictures from the day! :o)

We give up.....

We've have finally thrown in the towel. Our house we bought in 2006 for 330,000 is only worth 110,000. Today we have put the house up for short-sale. It's sad, but it's exciting too in a way. Jimmy's mom is ready to retire so she is going to buy a house up in the desert here. We are looking for a place with a "granny" house so that Jimmy, me and Emmy will live in the main house and Jimmy's mom, Marie, can have the smaller granny house. This will work out great for everybody because we'll finally get a place big enough to build a shop on the property for Fusion (Jimmy and Brian's company) to move in to - and out of my garage. And Marie's health had been getting worse so she could use to have someone close to her, plus she doesn't need her big ol' house anymore. And Marie can also be closer to Emily and any future little one(s)! So far we haven't found a new house yet but the short sale process is anything but short so we have plenty of time to find something!

Yum, cereal!

Today we tried cereal for the first time! She's not too sure what to do with it yet.

Calico

We've lived up in the desert here for 4 years and never visited Calico. So we decided to take Emmy to her first "theme park".

Look at that smile! We have a future hiker!

Emily trying on a Davy Crockett hat!

We took the train ride, walked through a real mining cave. And yes, I was an idiot and asked the woman at the enterance if this was a man-made cave or a real mining cave. Duh! A mining cave IS man-made.


In the real, man-made mining cave!