Our Long Awaited Vacation

Seriously, we've been waiting for most of the year for the first week in November to come. It meant 7 full days in our previous home, the state of California! One week stuffed with family time, 2 additional birthday parties for our new 3 year old, a trip to the Jelly Belly Factory, and waaaay too much time in a car. There was lots more thrown in there too. Here are a few of the highlights.First off, the Wedding!!! This was the main reason we headed out to sunny ol' Cali. From what I heard, this captured all but 2 of the Slazas side, and had 5 generations. Amazing!Carousel Ride #1 with Dad

A quick trip to a Lego store. I'm sure the little man would love a bunch of these gigantic ones!

Friday we hit up the Jelly Belly Factory. I've been there plenty of times, but what kid can go wrong when they're surrounded by candy? I think Dylan thought he was going to be able to drive this home. Cute car huh?

Our jaunt over to San Francisco wouldn't have been complete without chowder bowls. Yum!

We went by this guy twice and both times had the little dude give him a dollar. He reached into his pocket both times and gave his a little bag of Sweet Tarts back(we threw them away, don't worry). Totally cute watching Dylan just stare at him. And if you don't know who these guys are, they get all silver painted up and dance robot style to music. It's tons of fun to watch. This guy had a quirky personality-He'd move his cup around when people tried to tip them, so they were really working for it. He was super sweet with kids though.

Yeah for the Hard Rock Cafe!

Barking Seals-These suckers are nuts! You could hear them all around the pier.

Carousel ride #2 with Mom.

Thanks to my buddy Courtney I've got tons of pictures with the 3 of us, it's just a matter of going through them all. I'll post some of those soon. We're already missing our California family, but are so happy we were able to spend so much time with everyone. We love you!