California Trip - Part 1

Day 1:
Celebrating Allie & Karla's birthday!

present opening

Day 2:
Driving down to San Diego and meeting Bianca, Joelma & Bill at Moonlight Beach Park

maya eating her string on her hat

Making food with Joelma & Bianca

Maya sleeping in the Bjorn

Having fun at the playground.

We survived our first trip to California as a family of 4! We left on a wednesday night on a redeye. I was told by many different mommies that they loved the redeye - the kids sleep the whole time, blah, blah, blah. We will never take a redeye again. The flight is less than 5 hours, Erik & I slept maybe 5 minutes each and the girls only slept 3 hours that night (usually sleeping 10 and 11-12 hours at home). Well, they may have slept longer, but kalia had a cough that turned into a full blown attack and ended up throwing up everywhere about 3 1/2 hours into the flight. Plus, neither of our girls sleeps in one position. Maya kept flinging her body around - even backwards off of me, she really tosses and turns! Anyway, we made it and all went down for a nap at tutu and grandpa's house. Well, maya woke up from her nap right when we were all falling asleep- but tutu took her and was able to get her back down for a long nap. Tutu saved the day! I was delirious! After our naps, we got ready and headed to Auntie Kim & Uncle Jay's house for Allie and Karla's birthday party. Kalia was just a little bit excited to help put sprinkles on the cupcakes and sing happy birthday.

The next day we headed down to San Diego (where our Koga Family Reunion would be held), but first headed to Moonlight Beach Park to meet up with our old neighbors, Bianca, Joelma & Bill. Kalia had a lot of fun playing with Bianca & Joelma - it was so nice to see them! We really miss having them here.

Then we headed to Encinitas to the house where our reunion was going to be and met Auntie Lo...more later.