** I apologize in advance for the forever long post. I guess we had a lot to catch up on! Anyway, be prepared, it's long.
We just got back yesterday from a 10 day vacation with Mike's family. We visited his Grandparents who moved from Napa to Green Valley and built a GORGEOUS home! We had such a great time staying there! Maddie loved getting to know her Great Grandparents and it was fun to get away. I was bummed that we weren't able to take our SLR camera (just too big and bulky) because this house was amazing and it would have been fun to get some good pictures.
Here we are at the airport. Madilyn's excited to go on the plane! Can you tell?
When we got there Maddie ran right out to the putting green. Mike's family are big time golfers and so his grandma and bought Maddie her own little set. It was so cute! I loved seeing her play around on the green trying to putt it in.
Mike and I taking Maddie for a ride in one of their golf carts. Madilyn loved the golf cart, once she got used to it. The first time her Grandma Murray tried to take her on it, she wasn't too thrilled. But she got used to it :) Lots of rides on the golf cart!
This is Mike's Grandma.
This is the day we took the kids swimming at the country club. They had so much fun. And it was nice to get in the pool. The first couple of days we were there were SO HOT.
We took a ferry ride through the bay from Vallejo to Fisherman's Wharf. It was so fun to be in the bay seeing all the pretty scenery! It was so windy if you stepped onto the deck. Maddie could hardly walk. I guess we got going pretty fast!
Madilyn with Mike's parents
Mike and I with Alcatraz in the background.
After we drove through San Francisco we went to Saulsalito and had lunch at a restaurant on the water. It was so gorgeous there. Unfortunately, our kids had HAD it. They were wiped out after no naps and were so cranky (so were we). So I wish I had been able to relax and enjoy it more. Because it was so beautiful!
Bathtime!
We went on a tour at the Jelly Belly factory. It was pretty fun, but, oh my word, the place was packed! We had to wait for a 1/2 hour for our tour and then the tour was 40 mintues. The kids lasted for about the first 45 minutes, and then there were more meltdowns.
Okay, so I just have to post some pictures of this house. It was so fun to stay in! They had a theater room with a big projector and screen. So we watched lots of movies (and Maddie got a kick out of a 6 foot tall Elmo :). They had a cabana outside with a fireplace and tv with a HUGE grill! It was so pretty! Deer would come into their backyard almost daily. There was usually a mom and some babies. Some of the guys were trying to herd them to one area of the backyard. Haha, that was a funny site :)
Their many garages. There's room for 7 cars and 2 golf carts. 
This is in the Master bath and it's the coolest shower I've ever seen! There's no door, so you just walk in and there's 5 different faucets spraying water at you. One from the ceiling, one normal one, two that shoot sideways at you, and then another one from the other side of the shower. Ahhh, heaven! Oh, and the floor of the whole bathroom is heated too. So cozy :)
Oh, and I almost forgot, this was the last day we were there. We took a BART train into the city and went under the bay in a tunnel. Pretty cool!
This is the face Max pulls all the time now. He scruntches up his nose. So cute.
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Holy amazing house!! It's beautiful! That looks like it was a fun trip - although probably exhausting at times with the kids. We are glad to have our next door neighbors back :) Ava has been missing Maddie. All the pictures of your famiy are so cute! I especially love the one of Mike and Max grinning. And the one at the first of Maddie before the plane ride - she looks so excited!
Wow! That is an amazing house! Is it your in-laws? It looks like you had such a fun time. Don't you love melt downs? Taylor has out grown them..but Bryce? That's a whole other story!!!!
Looks like you guys has so much fun! Great pictures!
I would be moving in. It is so big they may not even know!! What a fun trip! Your kids are so darling! Maxs face is so cute! I think Maddie looks like Marcie!! California is so close to AZ and yet we still never go! There is no vacation for us this summer, so we will live vicariously through everyone else! I'm glad you had fun!
WOW! WOW! That house is amazing! That must have been so cool to stay in. Looks like you guys had so much fun. I"m jealous, i want to go on a good long trip! Where did you get Max's little sun shade thing for the pool? I've been looking for a good one of those!
I'm blown away by that house! Glad you had a great trip and I know all about the melt downs on vacation-trying dealing with it all by yourself while your hubby is at home-not fun!
You're kids are so cute.I wish we lived close b/c those few minutes we were at your house it seemed Kaiden and Maddie really hit it off!
No wonder you haven't been blogging. I had been checking but just kept seeing how much you hate diahrrea :) Glad you had such a fun trip. How could you not: amazing house, husband that doesn't have to go to work, cute kids and Cali!
It looks like you guys had a wonderful time...and that home holy wow that would be a blast to stay there! Max has some pretty funny faces!
Hahaha! I am doing my blog book and was looking at your pics to see if I wanted to "steal" any and oh my word, you saying the BART train was fun is really, really hilarious. ;)
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