Family Summer Vacation 2014-Part 1

This year for our family vacation we took a 10 day road and camping trip up north. Our first stop was in Santa Cruz where we stayed at this beautiful camp ground with lots of trees, rivers and amazing sunsets. We left on Friday and stayed till Monday. We got there at around 3:30pm and got all the motor homes unpacked and like we do all the time had our first "cocktail walk" this is a fun tradition for our family. We take the kids for a walk or they ride their bikes around the camp ground at about 4:30 everyday, while the adults enjoy a beverage! Of course this trip I did not take part in having a cocktail, but I do enjoy the walks around the park!

This part of the trip it was Greg and I and Dylan, my sister and her family, my mom and then our dear friends Eric & Tayarn with their family. The first night we had a big family dinner and sat by the camp fire and enjoyed lots of fun stories and smores with the kids.

The weekend we were in Santa Cruz it happen to be the same weekend that "Thomas The Train" Was there doing rides through the beautiful redwoods. It's about a 20 minute train ride through the forest on this amazing old railroad. They had games, food, and lots of bounce houses, after you got off the train for the kids to enjoy and run around! The only down fall is that we literally had to hike 4 miles to get to this place. Let me tell you being 6 1/2 months pregnant it was not the funnest thing in the world.

On Sunday it was a day of relaxing and enjoying time around the camp ground. We hiked on a beautiful trail, the kids swam in the river, played pool in the pool haul and lots of other fun stuff.  It's so nice camping with the kids. They can ride there bikes, play in the pool and run around all day long while us adults hang out and enjoy our vacation! Dylan had so much fun playing with all his cousins and friends. On Monday morning we left around 9:00am and headed up to Petaluma which is 30 minutes just outside of San Fransico where we met up with the rest of the family!