We have been wanting to go up to the Bay Area for a long time now and finally got the chance over Memorial Day Weekend! Brad's cousin Matt lives up there and him and his wife organized an awesome weekend for us all! We had a BLAST!
First we went to the guest house we were staying at! The Casita! I felt like I was on a Private Getaway! It was a guest house of a family in Matt and Courtney's ward!
Their pool was phenomenal!
Aubrey was in Heaven!
Brad and Aubrey getting ready to go down the slide!
The gorgeous view!
We had a fun night in the pool! Matt and Courtney left to put baby Drew down and we did the same with Aubrey! Brad and I swam for a couple more hours! It was so much fun!
The next morning we went and headed up to the beach!
Santa Cruz!
Aubrey and Baby Drew!
Looking for some rocks!
Throwing rocks in the ocean!
She was having the time of her life!
My beach babe!
A view of the board walk!
The boys were surfing so we went and found some tide pools on the beach!
Brad learned to surf and took a break to show the kiddos his Pink surfboard!
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Rafe and Matt Surfing!
Go BRAD!
He learned really quick for his first time!
Woot woot!
YAY!!
Proud of him!
It was pretty chilly and Aubrey was freezing after being in the water!
Cousins!
We went out to Lunch and headed back to the Casita! We played in the pool some more!
And hung out while the kiddos took some naps!
Paradise!
That night we went to get some Tacos for Matt's Birthday!
Courtney made some Brownies after and we played some games! We were so full and so tired after a fun day!
Sunday morning Brad, Aubrey and I headed up to Stanford to walk around their beautiful campus!
Palm Street!
Celebrating 125 years!
Their campus is HUGE! I could have spent all day there!
The Cathedral!
Love this family of mine!
After exploring for a little bit, we went to church and then headed to Matt and Courtney's for a delicious dinner! We ended the night with walking to a park and played some spike ball!
The next morning we headed up to San Francisco!
The fog was like a blanket on the hill side!
We went to 16th Avenue Stairs and Aubrey Climbed all of them by herself!
They were so beautiful and had so much detail!
The gorgeous view at the top! Too bad the smog was in the way of seeing the ocean!
On the other side facing the city!
Looking at Golden Gate Park! It is bigger than Central Park!
Baby Drew being so darn cute!
2nd cousins!
On the way down!
Cuties!
San Francisco is so extravagant! I loved the fun colors and detail in the buildings!
We headed to Golden Gate Park and rode the carousel!
Kisses! We have to say, "Bye Bye" to everything so Aubrey won't be super sad to leave it!
We also went to the first public children's playground! They had some awesome concrete slides that you slide down on cardboard! It was a lot of fun! I will have to find the videos we took!
Then we headed to some look out places of the ocean!
Lands End!
Our First view of the Golden Gate Bridge!
Lands end used to be a bathing pool
This is what it looked like!
We hiked down to the bottom of the hill.
And found a cave!
Aubrey was a trooper but she was getting really tired!
We then drove around to get another view of the Golden Gate Bridge!
We drove past some awesome Mansions! Many Celebrities live in that area!
Another view of the Golden Gate!
And one more from the other side!
Check off my bucket list!
Matt and Courtney were the best tour guides! We just followed them and they pointed out the window of things we needed to see and knew where to stop for us to get pictures!
Alcatraz in the distance!
The Palace of Fine Arts! It was built for the Worlds Fair!
It was incredible!
So beautiful!
We experienced some extreme San Fran Hills!
I felt like I was in Princess Diaries! lol
We had a wonderful lunch and let the kids play at the park until we had to head out!
It was so fun experiencing new parts of California!
Oakland Bridge!
We had such a blast! A Huge Thanks to Matt, Courtney and Baby Drew! We love you guys! Thanks for a wonderful weekend!!
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