Our Trip

This last week we took our quadrennial trip to L.A. to visit my family.

The main reason for this trip was to visit my new neice, Kayla Marie Baker, who was the first baby born this year at her hospital (4am or so on 1.1.08) and missed saving mom and dad on their taxes by about 5 hours! lol

It was a trip not unlike many of my long distance workouts, long drives with short bursts of seeing people. We started on Thursday by driving from home to L.A. (with a stop at the Cabazon outlet mall) and spent the afternoon and evening with my grandma, mom and a few aunts, uncles and cousins. It was nice to catch up with people there and spend time taking pictures of 3 of the great grandkids.

On Friday morning we made the short drive to visit my dad in Santa Monica and spent an hour or so at the beach (too chilly for real beach weather) and then had lunch before heading down the coast to San Diego (with a stop in San Celemente at the Rainbow store).

The time in SD was a blast, we always love visiting the Gennaros and they are so much like us in their views and challenge us in the way they live out loud in their love for Christ. The reason for our trip to SD was to visit the Gennaros who new little boys that just got home from Uganda. They have been in process of getting them adopted from Uganda for over two years and they brought them home a few months ago. They are both ADORABLE.

Julia (the oldest who's a freshman now-was a toddler when we were at PLNU) was on the crew for the Beauty and the Beast performance at the high school, so we packed up the two vans and headed to the show that night, which all kids enjoyed.

The next day we spent time just hanging out in the morning and continuing to catch up with our friends with the kids making new ones. We took a couple of shots before heading off back home on Saturday. All-in-all a good trip. Julia had a party in the morning, so she was missing from the pics.