Spring Break!

Spring Break this year consisted of family, friends, sun, and beach.  Could it get any better?

We got invited to stay with Jeff and Amber at their family's beach house in Mission Beach, CA. It is so close to where some of my family lives that I don't get to see much, so of course we had to start the trip there. 

Uncle Bob and Aunt Joyce picked us up from the airport Friday night and we stayed at their house for the weekend.  On our way home from the airport we stopped at In-N-Out. Delicious!

Their dog Olive had recently given birth to 12 golden doodle puppies and I was in heaven playing with them.  Kade kept his distance from the poop smell and took some good pictures!

My cousin Trav and his new wife Megan came to hot tub with all of us on Friday night. I hadn't seen him since he got home from his mission, he had never met Kade, and I had never met his wife! It was fun to share stories and catch up.  Saturday we went shopping and got to hang out with my cousin Justin and his cute prego wife. 

On Saturday night we got together with the Grandmas! It was good to see Grandma Sheri, and especially our Great Grandma Haslam who turned 94 this year! She had never met Kade before, and always talked about wanting to meet "my sweetheart." They wanted to get to know Kade better, so he got bombarded with the questions.  The story they were most excited about was our meeting/dating/proposal story.  When he was done telling it, we heard each of theirs.  They are two incredible women. Both of my Grandpas have passed away, but I am glad they have each other for company!

We didn't get any pictures with Bob and Joyce, but it was so fun to spend time with them and hang out.  They had only met Kade once on our wedding day so I got to sit back and play proud wife as he did all the talking.

The next day we went to church, and then the Grandmas drove us down the the beach.

We quickly realized how lucky the Jack family is...their beach house is in an amazing spot!

Our next week was filled with delicious food, a slight bit of working out, and more delicious food.

Jeff had been going there ever since he was little, so he knew all the good places to take us.

The sunsets each night on the balcony were pretty incredible!

We did some shopping while we were there, and we also had time for a little date night.  Amber and Jeff went to a family party, so we had the night to ourselves. 

We took the beach cruisers for a ride and found a yummy italian pizza restaurant for dinner. We ended the night with The Bachelor Finale on tv.  It was comical, but such a waste of time!

Jeff's cousin Andrew took us to Balboa Park one day to walk around and we also got to go to a play with Grandpa Jack and Shirley.  They were very generous to pay for all of us.

We are so grateful that Jeff and Amber invited us along on their Spring Break trip.  They were so much fun to be around...always thinking of fun things to do.  We spent a lot of time at the beach reading or playing bocce ball.

It was not a fun transition to come back to Philly/get back into the grind of school and work, but we managed to bring the good weather back with us.  It wasn't too painful.

We are grateful for the family and friends that we have in our lives.  Hopefully we can host people in the future at our home and provide a fun time!