The Knowles Family: Our Home, the Hotel :)

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Our Home, the Hotel :)

We have had quite the busy house lately, but we have had a BLAST!! In the middle of January, Steve's parents and sister, Gina, came to visit from Idaho (Gina got picked up in Utah). They stayed for a week and then 2 weeks later, my sister Emily and her hubby David came from Provo to visit us for a long weekend! We love living in a place where people can come and keep busy with all the AWESOME things to do around here! However, it helps when California weather cooperates, which it does most of the time, but when our visitors were here it ended up raining a few of the days :/ We still had fun, though!!

There are some really pretty trails just 15 minutes away, and the weather was beautiful (on this day anyway, haha) so we just HAD to check it out! Here are Steve's parents and Gina, and Jake in the backpack :)

The weather was still perfect the next day, so we ventured out to San Diego, and visited Coronado (currently our FAVORITE beach to come to).

Beach baby!!

Ha, yeah so by the end of the day, Jake was SOAKED from the water! Steve was walking next to him and a wave came that was stronger than he thought and it totally knocked Jake over into the water.... it was sad but really funny :) Good thing I had a change of clothes for him!

Last day of sun... So we went down to San Diego again and went on a 3 hour whale watching cruise! It was actually awful at first because it was really windy and the way the boat was rocking back and forth made us a little woozy. A little girl about Jake's age kept throwing up, actually, it was SO sad. And really gross!! Anyways, after the first hour the boat slowed down so we could see the whales, and it was fun again, thank goodness!

This was the best shot I got of the whales. See that little tiny white splash in the water?? That's it! Haha... kinda pathetic ;)

Later that day we went to Balboa park to go to a Train Museum, which is a big hobby for Steve's dad, and Steve is pretty into it, too.

This train set-up is made totally from Lego's! So cool!!

Balloon animals! Daffy Duck, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, Belle, The Hulk, Little Mermaid and Mario!!

And then the rains came.... this picture is worth 1000 words, seriously!! We tried venturing out even though it was raining, and we ended up going out to lunch to a place we had never been to, and it was pretty much a shack with vinyl shades that were NOT good at keeping rain out! The shade next to Steve kept blowing from the wind and was pretty close to hitting him in the head a few times! It was cold, and windy, and we were getting wet, and the food was terrible and expensive! I don't really know why we stayed, but we now have a good story that we can laugh at, I guess, haha.

Ok, so that's the end of Steve's family being here :( ................ but then we were ready for Emily and David! It rained when they were here too, unfortunately! But we went to the mall around here and Carlisle from Twilight was there!! That was the first celebrity I've seen in person, it was kinda cool. And he looks WAY younger in real life than he does on the movies.