Oh Kaylie... How I love you, let me count the ways!

Kaylie is talking so much lately! She just mimics everything we say! Here are a few new things she is trying to say: "Go!", "Pretzel", "Bounce", "Uh Oh", "Hi", and she tries to say everyone's name.

The cutest thing that Kaylie does lately is that she puts her pointer finger to her mouth and says, "hmmmm". She does this when we are looking at a variety of foods to eat or when we are playing hide and seek. Or any other time I feel like hearing it, I will do it and she will usually copy me. We love it when she does this!

She is becoming a good helper and puts things in the garbage when she finds something on the floor. She is always trying to put my flip flops back on me. She just always wants to help. When she does something that she knows is right, she will sometimes clap for herself. So funny!


She loves to dance... and its pretty hilarious. She just bounces. It's so cute! Today she was rolling around on the floor and just being silly right after she was done dancing.  


Kaylie has a favorite Sesame Street character... can anyone guess??? Yes, it's Elmo! She can always be cheered up by watching Elmo on Sesame Street or just on youtube.  She gets so mesmorized, its like nothing else exists when Elmo is on.  Which is okay with us because he is an adorable, furry, red monster.  


Kaylie is just a bundle of joy and she is starting to really entertain! She can be so sweet and so funny. We love her to pieces! She is 15 months old now! I can't believe how the time has flown by!

San Diego Adventures & Family BBQ

Marcus and I were brave and decided we would leave Kaylie with Grandpa and Lola Jankowski while the two of us spent 5 days away on vacation. She actually did very well with them! We were pleasantly surprised that she never threw a huge fit for them. Marcus and I drove south and spent our vacation in Huntington Beach, Anaheim, Newport Beach, San Diego and Beverly Hills. Here are some pictures of our adventures!

Our first stop was visiting our friends, Tyler, Linda, and Jada Geertson, at their home in Reseda, which is five hours south from Modesto where we started off on Monday the 4th. We enjoyed lunch with them and they even let us borrow their boogie boards!

Our next stop was Huntington Beach! It was slightly overcast that evening so we just spent an hour walking up and down the beach next to the pier enjoying the sound of crashing waves on the ocean. 

Monday evening we spent then night at Marcus's aunt's house in Anaheim. Then we headed to Newport Beach the next morning.  Here we are standing on the pier!

This is the view from where we parked... not far from the beach since there was nobody there when we arrived! Oh and we loved seeing so many palm trees!

We made it to San Diego on the evening of Tuesday the 5th. This was the hotel we stayed in and it was in a great location! Close to everything we wanted to see.

Our first night in San Diego and we went out to dinner at an Italian Restaurant called Zia's Bistro. The food was delicious!

Our hotel was in the neighborhood of Little Italy. There were tons of pizzerias and other Italian Restaurants in the area.

These pictures were taken at the USS Midway. They turned an aircraft carrier into a museum! We spent 3 hours on Wednesday touring the carrier! There was a lot to see!

This is a picture of Silver Strand Beach on Coronado Island. We went here Wednesday afternoon after the Midway Museum. We rested for about 20 minutes and then we spent 3 whole hours boogie boarding! Once we figured it out and got used to the ocean water, we were having a blast! Our arms got pretty tired after a while, but it was totally worth it!

On Thursday we went to a few fun places. The first stop we made was Cabrillo National Monument. Cabrillo was the first European to set foot on the west coast... so they had a monument and museum in his honor. Also there was a lighthouse there which I think was the first lighthouse in San Diego. It was pretty neat seeing how a lighthouse works.

There was also supposed to be some pretty cool tidepools, but since we were there at 12:30pm there was no way we were going to catch it all at high tide. Bummer! But the view was great anyways!

Our next stop that Thursday afternoon was the Mormon Battalion Museum. It was actually a pretty neat Museum! The Sister Missionaries gave a whole tour and everything. Fun, interactive... we were pleasantly surprised! We even got a great view of Old Town San Diego from the top of the Museum.

Our last stop in San Diego was the San Diego Temple! It is such a beautiful temple! We took lots of amazing pictures.

We spent the night in Anaheim again at Marcus's Ate Bing Bing's house. She took us to breakfast in the morning right before we left! Delicious! Thank you Ate Bing Bing!

After breakfast we headed to Beverly Hills to visit my cousins, Scott & Jenn Thompson and their kids.  I was making little Archer laugh in this picture! Unfortunately I completely forgot that I wanted to take a picture with everyone! Next time!

We got home that evening after lots of traffic due to a fire... but we did make it home! Too bad Kaylie was already in bed - we missed her SO much!

We had a family BBQ the next day. We love being with family! It was especially fun seeing the great grandchildren together!

Reese and Kaylie are only 6 weeks apart! It is so fun watching them together!

While we were out in Modesto we actually stopped by my grandparents house a couple times. We took this picture the day that we left Modesto and headed back to Sacramento. Kaylie warmed up to them much faster on this visit!

Here is the whole gang together! Thank you so much Lola and Ate Lain for watching Kaylie! We had so much fun spending time with everyone!