An Impulse Trip

With dirt cheap airfare direct from Bentonville to LA, I decided to take a weeklong Girls trip to visit Mom. We had so much fun! It was just us four girls the first five days and then Dad returned home from a business trip for the last three days. Here are some highlights...

Playing in the fountains and eating fudge at Seaport Village. (We had to buy something to get free parking. Hehehe. )

Rocking on the rocking horse Dad made and swinging on the hammock! Ahh...this is the life!

Time with Grandpa: The girls had so much fun with Dad. They were glued to him as soon as he walked in the door. So, funny story...Dad decided to multi-task...holding Bethany while watering the garden. He did a great job of both, but at the end, we found all these pen marks on Bethany's legs...from the pen in Dad's shirt pocket. Oops!

We also took a hike with Dad to the top of the hill by the house to watch the sunset over the ocean. Beautiful!

Time with Grandma: Mom had so many fun things strategically placed around the house and yard for Ashley...a purple recorder on the piano (just waiting to be played), books in the drawers of the children's desk, chalk in a special drawer, puzzles, the marble roller, Veggie Tales and of course...yummy treats here and there. We had fun setting up the pool for Ashley to play in while Mom and I worked on (our tans and) her garden.

Fun in the sun!

There were only two downsides of the trip. One, Jared wasn't with us. Sad. Two, our flight got delayed and then cancelled on the way back. It wouldn't have been such a problem except that Mom and Dad were back in San Diego and I was in LA with girls once we found out the plane was cancelled. To make a long, long, long story short...we ended up getting 2 airline ticket vouchers out of it, which made our dirt cheap tickets...even more dirty, I mean...cheap. Oh, and I LOVE my double stroller. That was a lifesaver. Ashley was an amazing sport staying all night in the LA airport (and she even kept her underwear clean!!!). Here we are at my new favorite (airport) place...one of the only places that sells milk around the clock...Starbucks. Although the picture is deceiving, Bethany actually handled it the best of us all. We all bonded over our night in LA and red-eye to Chicago. Needless to say, we all needed a bath and a nap when we got home the next day.

What a great trip!