Mini Vacation

Garrett continue to talk about the beach after finishing his ocean lesson at school and since Mommy was getting a little cabin fever after being home for 7 months we decided to spend 4th of July is Shell Beach this year. In years past we have gone to L.A. for the Gossman Family picnic and have decided to save L.A. for Thanksgiving this year. So since the rest of the family is in Shell Beach we thought that was perfect. We booked a last minute room and headed out! The boys are such good travelers and sleepers that it turned out to be a great trip. Garrett loves the beach and is really starting to know that Aunt Shannon and Gramma Toni are there! We spent most of the time with our own little family and a couple nights with everyone. The weather was perfect of course.

Garrett so excited over the star fish
The favorite new seating arrangement, well actually we switched to have Gannon face us, but they love being able see each other.

Oh, look Mom Gannon has shoes on.

Playing at the hotel

Price Is Right Trip

So crazy me has wanted to be on the Price Is Right show for as long as I can remember. Our turn to visit finally came so here's a little recap of the big event. Two cars of us crazy game show lovers drove down to Los Angeles to visit Drew. We arrived on Sunday afternoon, checked into our hotels and of course checked out the little walk to where the line will form the next morning - or so we thought! There was a man in line when we got down there, yes Sunday afternoon the line started, he suggested we get in line around midnight. Totally freakin out - what do we do!?! Sleep or get in line? We walked back to our hotel and asked the man at the front corner what he thought, 3 am was average. That's right 3 freakin am wholly cow that's early. So we decided to be safe we would get in line around 2:30am, no big deal that would give us 4 hours of sleep. So we went to dinner at this cute diner with a crazy waitress (another long story) and headed to Hollywood (another long story, see next post) and then turned in to bed around 10:30 with our phone alarms set at 2:15. So 2 am rolls around a lot faster than you think and I hear Kendra up so I get up too, not to long after Taylor is up and then Allison. So we throw are sweats on and grab our books (the nerds) and magazines (the college girls) and head out. Well actually we decided we needed something to sit on so we borrowed the blanket off the hotel bed. Thanks hotel we promise to bring it back (and we did). We took the couple block walk to find 20 crazier people in line ahead of us. Yes 20 people, the first guy was still there and the next ladies had been out there since 11pm. We were perfectly happy with #21. From 2:30 to about 6:15 we just hung out waiting for our passes to secure our seat on the show. Totally worth the wait.

We sat in 5 lines for the day. Four at the show and one for dinner! What a cool and smooth process. First - to receive our Order of Arrival pass which secures your seat in the audience. Second - to fill out paperwork and receive your name tag. Third - interview with the producer and his assistant - you audition for your spot on contestants row. Fourth - waiting to get in the studio. Fifth - dinner line at Bubba Gumps!

The show was amazing. Even though one of us did not get picked it was very cool to see the studio live. I always watch the show and wonder why the contestant doesn't pay attention to what the audience advice is - well now I know. There are so many cameras and crew members trying to get the audience pumped up that the contestant can't really see much of the audience.

After the show, dinner and the drive home I think we were up for a total of 22 hours and it was totally worth it!

Super Fun! I can't wait to go again.

Left to right - Gram (Kendra & Katrina's Gram that is), Katrina, Allison, Taylor, Me, Kendra, Julie & Janice.
2:30am sporting our glasses in line

All shirted up and ready to go

After the show - check out the cute name tags

5pm - Our first meal since the morning (7am) so I think we were all so hungry that we had quite the order!

Big Boy Tub

Gannon is growing so fast! In the past couple of weeks he has been trying really hard to sit up in his tub that you put in the sink so we decided it was time for him to graduate to the big boy tub. Way cool - we get to bathe both boys at the same time - YEAH!!! Garrett also thought it was super cool for Gannon to be in the tub with him.

How cute is he?

Of course Garrett had to try out Gannon's chair - which of course used to be Garrett's.

As Garrett says, "All Clean"

Brushing those big boy teeth

Come on Down!!!

A month or so ago Kendra, Taylor, Allison and I planned a trip to go down to the Price Is Right...so we are leaving on Sunday. Kendra and I made our shirts today. SUPER EXCITED!!!!

Front
Back

Garrett at the Beach!

Garrett was really excited to go to the beach for the sand - not the water! Our normal beach experiences are in Pismo so it's a lot cooler and the water is cold so we don't usually even try to go in the water. The sand in Santa Cruz is very fine and dry so we needed a little water to build with the sand. We tried so hard to get Garrett down to the water to fill his bucket and he wanted nothing to do with that...for a while. Soon he was in the water, shorts rolled up, shorts now wet and hey, please take my shirt off this is fun.

Not too sure about the water
Well, maybe just a little

Okay this works

This is actually warm and fun

Yeah - Look at me!!!

Santa Cruz

Garrett has been wanting to go the beach for a while so Grandma and Papa went with us to Santa Cruz for the day. Garrett had a great time and thank goodness I covered him with sunscreen and we kept Gannon in shade because I got a nice burn.

Brotherly Love!

As Gannon gets older Garrett really wants to play with him and have him enjoy what Garrett is. It's so cute to see Garrett love his little brother and to watch Gannon's eyes light up when Garrett is right in his face baby talking with him.


Garrett really wanted Gannon to sit with him at the BBQ at Auntie Gin & Uncle Bob's.

Garrett loves to play in his tent and wanted Gannon to sit in it too. As you can see Garrett also wanted Gannon to have plenty of toys to keep him busy. Including the ring on his head!

This one was funny, all Garrett would say was, "Nannon tent, Nannon tent" (he is still working on saying his G's) so we had to put Gannon in the tent. And look in this picture they look the same size