San Diego Part 2

 We pulled into San Diego in the afternoon so that evening we went to see the Maritime Museums

I love old wooden ships, who doesn't really? 

Did I mention how nice it is having 4 adults to one kid...? Well it's pretty great, WAY more relaxing.

We were there right at sunset, it was gorgeous!

The Star of India with the city behind it

Carter loved when we'd let him down to run around, he wanted to climb everything as well.

San Diego

The Harrison Family Reunion was in San Diego this year... Yes, we went to this one!

Most of his family lives in Utah, his aunt from Yuma, AZ was in charge this year. Since you can pretty much see all the sights in Yuma in one day San Diego was much more appealing. 

We drove in shifts, and split the drive on the way down, staying the night in Vegas. On the way back we stayed in Mesquite (roach motels, both times.) We were being as frugal as possible. We stayed at the Humphries Hotel in San Diego, right on the bay it was beautiful!

Don and I took a walk along the water one morning, while the grandparents watched Carter. This was right outside our room.

Later that day we headed to Seaworld, which was the main attraction for the reunion.

Carter loved seeing the animals & fish when he could get close. 

It was an awesome trip, the weather was absolutely perfect, SO warm and sunny the entire time. The morning before we left (and we really, really, really didn't want to leave...) we went to Coronado to the beach, it was beautiful and Carter LOVED it. He kept wanting to go in the water. And he enjoyed destroying daddies sand castles. 

Christmas 2011

This has been the best Christmas, it really has. Even though Carter didn't understand much about presents and Santa, I know he understood being with his family. That's what counts anyways. We took it easy with presents (ha! We always seem to because of money, jobs, etc!) At least this time it was because we were saving for our trip to San Diego which we were leaving for the day after Christmas, no boxing day parties for us, oh well...!

Here is Carter's FAVORITE present it's a cookie monster that counts cookies with his... you guessed it mouth. He talks and sings as well, this one ended up coming with us on our trip. I should mention it's from Lance's family, and when I say Lance I really mean thanks Emily lol!

Please excuse the overload of pictures from here on.

 Baby cell phone, he always uses random things pretending it's a phone and talking on them!

Don't look at the obviously tired (& pale) woman here, I put this picture to show that Carter was interested in everything BUT the presents like ornaments, and the computer...

Helping Carter tear into his stocking pear, he loves pears so much I handed it to him 5 seconds later I turn back to him and it's pretty much gone! This is the Christmas corner, we put everything back in the corner and blocked it off so  we didn't have to constantly keep picking up ornaments and tree parts.

Such a boy, already stuffing paper in Cookie's mouth, this is just about the only one good picture I got of Carter on Christmas. 

After lunch we headed over to Grandmas and Grandpas (Don's parents) to open our gifts to and from them. We really do have two of the best grandparents in the world, they love him so much, he loves them too. We're fortunate that they live just down the street practically and that grandma watches Carter for us, SO lucky! (I guess it doesn't hurt that he is the 1st grand kid either...)

More presents, this kid made out like a bandit.