So behind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, I have finally decided to take the time to post some pictures ( a lot of pictures) from our vacation in California. Yes, we took this trip at the beginning of August, and I am now just posting this! Oh well, better late than never! :)
So we left for California the second week of August. The first day we drove just to Las Vegas and stayed over night there. Actually we stayed in Henderson ( I hate the strip, so dirty!) Anyway, Henderson was actually very nice. The next morning we woke up and took our time and went to the strip and decided to find some free things to do. Pretty much all we did was go to M & M world (which by the way, I refuse to pay like $10 for a 1/2 lb of M & M's that you could pay $3.50 at Walmart! :) Dave was bummed! He LOVES M & M's! :) Anyway, we couldn't really find anything else that we wanted to see. (Dave and I just wanted to get to his parents house! I was so anxious to get done with the drive to Bakersfield)
Anyway, we headed out and got to Bakersfield like 5 hours later! Yuck, I HATE driving! I literally asked Dave, "Are we there yet?" Josh did much better than I did! Next time, we are FLYING! :) Anyway, it was so nice to get to Wayland and Maile's house. We had a nice dinner that night and finally slept in a nice bed! :) The next day was my 30th birthday! Yuck! I am officially old! Anyway, that day we decided to go to the Bakersfield "zoo". Ummm, this was NOT a zoo. It was absolute crap! The zoo up in Logan was better than this one! And it was expensive! Aghhh, what a waste, even though Josh still had lots of fun! Then we came home and Josh went down for a nap, and so did we! That night, Maile watched Josh so Dave and I could go to a nice dinner. I opted for P.F. Chang's. YUMMMMMMMMY! Seriously it's my favorite restaurant EVER! Everything was good! Then we came home and had some Marie Callender's pie!
My birthday wasn't exciting, but it was very nice and just nice to be with my family! A Mexican cruise would have been even nicer, but it's not really in our budget right now! Maybe next year!
Anyway, the next day we headed to Santa Cruz (it was a 4 1/2 hour drive north-west). It is so beautiful up there, but oh, the drive! Yuck! Anyway, we went to a very yummy pizza joint and then went to bed. We were all exhausted! The next day we met James and Trisha and their kids (Dave's brother and sister in law) and headed to the beach. Ummmm, the high was 65 degrees that day. We were FREAZING, until the sun came out, and even then we still stayed in our warm clothes. Dave and James did get in the water! So funny to watch! They were SCREAMING like girls, but they stayed in the water for about 45 minutes! Crazy boys! And the rest of the kids were freazing but they too were in their swimsuits! Crazy kids!
We had such a blast with them, we were so sad that we only had a day with them! We love visiting with James and Trisha!
After the beach we drove the 4 1/2 hour drive back to Bakersfield. We were so tired that night we went straight to bed. The next day we got to just hang out at home, went to lunch with Dave's good friend from high school, Ryan, and then just hung out the rest of the night with Wayland and Maile. The next day we went to church and then came home ate lunch and then we headed back to Utah. Yes, 12 hours more of driving! Oh my goodness, I was about to die! I still can't believe how well Josh did! Seriously, he never had a break down, he just loved watching all of his movies, colored, ate food, and I read a lot of books to him.
It was such a fun trip, LOTS of driving, but overall it was great to get out of our normal routine!
Well, that was our life in August! I will post some more information later! Nothing too exciting! :)