Madilyn's First Road Trip!

This was Valentine's Day morning and I thought that this was an adorable picture, as Madilyn chose this book herself and it happened to be perfect for Valentine's Day! We left later that day for our road trip to California.

It was Madilyn's turn to drive by the time we reached Barstow, California!! :) She looks a little worried about it! Actually, we had just stopped for a quick break and Madilyn decided that she wanted to see what sitting in the front seat felt like. She felt so cool sitting up front...it was cute and hilarious at the same time. This is also where we got our first In N Out fix for this trip. We love visiting California, as that is the only time we get and In N Out Burger!

We finally made it to San Diego and spent our first day there at Sea World. Since the park is owned by Anheiser Busch, Paul had to enjoy an ice cold bud...Madilyn kept reaching for it..it was hilarious! She loved riding around the park in her stroller and in the Baby Bjorn. It was such a beautiful day to be outside. This was Madilyn's first experience in a stroller, as it hasn't been nice enough in Salt Lake to take her on a walk. We were so happy and relieved to find out that she LOVES her stroller.

Here we are watching the Shamu show at Sea World.

Madilyn catches her first glimpse of Shamu. We had a great time, as there were so many babies there for Madilyn to see! It was great to be at such a kid/baby friendly place. We have seen more couples with babies here in California then we ever do in Utah, weird. At first we thought that it was just because we were at Sea World, but we have been out and about in La Jolla too and have seen so many young families. We feel very at home here with so many young parents around. We absolutely love all the babies and kids around as it makes us feel more comfortable in the event that Madilyn gets fussy. For the most part, Madilyn has done awesome.

Mike, Tammy and their kids; Vanessa (3)and Shan (10 months) came down from Torrance California and met us at Sea World. We all spent the day together and it was so much fun. Vanessa had a wonderful time with her Uncle Paul and we had a great time visiting with Mike and Tammy.

The ultimate California photo!!! This says it all :)

We spent Sunday at Balboa Park in San Diego. What a wonderful and beautiful place. There are so many museums and gardens. We really needed about a week to spend there in order to see everything that we wanted to see, but we decided to just walk around and enjoy the beautiful day. We stopped into the Museum of Man for awhile and saw mummies and mayan art. We also saw how man has evolved over the years. Very awesome and interesting. We absolutely have to go back and visit all the museums that we didn't have time to see that day.

Tonight (Monday night) we are in Laguna Beach. Here is Madilyn in our hotel room playing with Paul. We spent the afternoon driving up the coast from San Diego through many cute and lazy beach towns. So many surfers to see. We really, really want to try surfing, but Madilyn is just not old enough for that yet :) Maybe next time. So far we are having fun in Laguna. We have walked up and down S. Coast Blvd browsing the art galleries and we ate a great pizza joint. Tomorrow we are hitting the beach to celebrate Madilyn's 1/2 birthday, which was today. Happy 6 months Madilyn!!! So far, it has been an awesome trip!