California Trip

Our little family took a week long trip to California last week. We originally were going to go for just a weekend for Tatum's 1st birthday, but we decided to go up early and make it a vacation. Thanks to Noah's uncle Johnny, we were able to stay in his condo on the cliffs of Encinitas for half of the week. It was absolutely breathtaking. I could live there! We went for a walk every day. Even Cohen liked it. He was such a good boy the whole time we were there. Then we made the trip up to Temecula, where the party was. We stayed at the Embassy Suites. It was really nice. Each room has it's own living room/kitchenett and a separate bedroom. It's like a little house. We met the rest of the family at the hotel. We had so much fun! We had little parties in the rooms and ate so much junk food! They had a free breakfast every morning with everything you could imagine. Waffles, eggs, bacon, sausage, cereal, fruit, different pastries, toast, bagels, and even omletts made to order. It was heaven. The trip got kinda scary the night we had a pizza party in Grandma Carols room. Cohen was walking around stealing food from people as usual and he must have grabbed a whole pepperoni off someone's plate. He came back and sat on Grandma Carols lap and tried to swallow. The pepperoni was just too big and he started choking. Lucky for me they make you take child/adult life rescue and CPR when you are in nursing school. I grabbed that kid so fast and flung him upsidown on my lap and started my "back thrust" maneuver. Well it only took two times and the pepperoni came flying out. Cohen wasn't really phased by the whole thing and went on playing and eating. The rest of us were pretty freaked out. I think my heart stopped beating all together when it happened. Anyway, to get back on track, Tatums 1st birthday party was a blast! Even Britty dressed up like Minni Mouse (it was a minni mouse party). The party was so cute. Cohen has a lot of fun stealing presents and cake. All in all we had so much fun and we didn't want to leave. Oh well...back to reality.