Opening Day

It is that time of year again. Opening baseball day for the town and we were all in the spirit to celebrate and spectate the big parade. 

The Oregon Ducks

Walking in the parade.

The best support team in the business.

Our baseball star.

After the parade and opening ceremony, Connor went over to try the pitch, hit and run contest.  It is a National contest which tests all aspects of your game.  It was fun to compete and even Emily and Garrett took a turn running the bases.  It was a gorgeous day to celebrate baseball.

Garrett's First Offical Baseball Team - The Reds

Garret is off to an amazing start with his first official baseball team.  He is #2 and #5 is his best friend Brendan. (oh and that is Emily in the middle if you couldn't guess) The team is made up of many of the younger players of the league but they are holding their own. 

Garrett's batters stance and concentration is quite intimidating for the other team.  Watch out because Garrett can really launch that ball.

Spring Has Begun

You know Spring has arrived when the kid's sports schedule is so overwhelming you don't know how you are going to make it.  Connor has started up his spring Soccer and Baseball season.  Happily, Garrett is on his first official baseball team as well. 

We are going to keep very busy. 

An Evening at the Coronado

After the day at Lego Land, we decided to take advantage of the rental car and head out to Coronado to see the beautiful town, beach and hotel that are famous.  The kids really do thrive on vacation and are up for every new adventure even when tired.  The beach was beautiful but it was quite cold and windy.  So they stayed near the walkway and built little castles while they were there.

  

Daddy found a great little outdoor pizza place at the Coronado hotel and we ate under heat lamps in luxury.   It was a beautiful evening and so much fun to see.  It was the perfect last night in San Diego.   What a great trip!

Thank you daddy for planning this whole trip. It was great and the kids did fantastic for mommy who was flying solo on the way back with them.

LegoLand

The most important thing you need to know about Daddy is that he makes things happen.  No matter how daunting or ridiculous, your dad always finds a way.  The reason I bring this up is that Daddy managed to find a car rental place for one day so that we could drive to LegoLand which is an hour away from our hotel. So the kids waited patiently while daddy went to go get the car.

It was a beautiful drive and we even managed not to get lost.  We got right to the rides and games which were so cute and of course, made out of Legos.

It didn't take long for Connor and Garrett to earn their LegoLand drivers licenses.

On your mark, get set, go - and they are off.  

By far this was Emily's favorite ride which we all rode more times than I could keep count.

The Lego display is simply gigantic and impressive.  Garrett kept going over the boundaries because he wanted to see the battle scenes closer.

Couldn't resist to prove that I was on this trip too!  See there I am.

LegoLand was definitely worth the trip and it was a fun filled day of exploration.

SeaWorld

Sea World was our favorite park in all of San Diego.  We started the day off at the Killer Whale show and it was absolutely astounding.  We were all entranced by the training and the unbelievable accomplishments of the animals.

Look at that jump...the kids thought this was amazing.

Then we headed over to the sting rays where you could pet and feed them.  The children were not too thrilled with the little fish and did not want to touch them.  So Daddy and I helped them lean over to feed the sting rays which was so interesting.

The dolphin show was spectacular and the stunts and tricks kept us on the edge of our seats.

Connor taking in the penguins at play.

Here is a Beluga Whale being watched.  We also watched a walrus have its lunch against the viewing window.  It was mesmerizing, disgusting and totally interesting all at the same time.

There was also a gigantic kids park right in the middle of Sea World so it was hard to get the kids to leave. They bounced, played and ran around until they were exhausted.

Unfortunately during our stay we found out about the events at the Boston Marathon this year.  It did dampen the mood of the day but made us thankful for all of our blessing.

A Walk Along the Water

After the day at the ballpark, I suggested we go for a walk.  Can you hear the collective moaning and groaning that my children let out upon that suggestion?  It was like I asked them to go shopping for shoes.  Well, after our walk they all had to admit they had a blast. 

 We headed through the convention center - actually more appropriately we ran up and down about a thousand steps through the convention center and arrived at a beautiful park along the water.  Of course, we can't keep Garrett on the ground for long because he was climbing everything.

 Garrett climbed almost every tree we saw - unfortunately he doesn't always think about getting down.  As you can see, he got a little ahead of himself on this tree and required some assistance to get down.

 The waterfront is absolutely gorgeous from every view.

 Then, we couldn't get any of the kids to stop climbing. 

 We managed to make it all the way to Seaport Village up the other end of the promenade. 

We ended our little walk at a great Mexican restaurant and came home with some full bellies.  Our adventure was so much fun the kids insisted we do the walk again the next day.