Girls Trip to California

And we are off...

on a girls trip to a beach house in Oceanside.

Can you tell we are a little excited?!?!

This beach house was one of the condos next to the one we stayed at last summer with Tif and her kiddos. 

Two of my favorite things....sandy toes and salty kisses!

This was our view for 5 days!

#sorrynotsorry 

We took the girls out of school Wednesday and left early that morning.  It's pretty easy traveling with just teenagers!

Coffee cake as an appetizer was at every restaurant it seems.  Must be a cali thing.  What ever the case, it was delicious!

Crunchy Banana French Toast.......

don't mind if I do.

Okay twice I have this for breakfast at two separate places.  I mean I had to compare who's was better right?

This one was from Breakfast Club Diner

Beach Break Cafe

Seriously yummy food!

Oh how I love this girl and her perfect botox face.  She could make her forehead wrinkle if she wanted!  She is so gorgeous to me I don't think she needs that botox stuff!  I just love her!!!

I could walk on the beach everyday and be a happy happy person!  I just LOVE the beach!  So wish we lived closer to it.

This was a fabulous idea....not sure who's idea it was but whoever it was is a genius!

We had so much fun with our four girls.  I just count Aubrey as one of mine.  She has a wonderful mom, my sister Marla and I would never want to nor have any desire to replace her as Aubrey's mom.  But I just count her as my own because I love her!

Ummm yes we had an elevator right in our condo.  It was so freaking sweet!  Cambry and I took every chance we had to use it....lol.  Good times!

Yes this would be ANOTHER picture of us eating.  That's one of the main things we did on this trip.  This was us at Breakfast Club Diner.

We also enjoyed Ruby's on the Pier several times.  

Good food + great company = unforgettable memories

Look at our beautiful girls!

These four girls are seriously so fun!

They laughed and joked and laughed some more.

The water was FREEZING cold but that didn't stop these die hards.  They loved boogie boarding and Tif and I loved watching them and hearing all their stories.

What a great little dive in Oceanside.....the Flying Pig.

My plate of chicken with hush puppies was Divine!!

These girls had so much fun posing for pictures.  They were amazing "present" lifeguards....LOL!

It was fun to meet Tif's aunt, Liz.  She was hilarious!  Thanks for treating us to the Flying Pig!

This relaxing girls trip was just what my soul needed.  I relaxed on the beach, had no little ones to watch or bath, read two books on the trip, listen to the waves, ate way too much, laughed a lot and had a wonderful time!

Best picture I could get because Kiersten didn't like the idea of posing how I wanted her to.

Thank goodness Aubrey saw my vision.....isn't this a cool picture.  I love the way the sunset is lighting up her face.

Oh these girls seriously cracked us up.  This would be them teaching each other how to two step while we waited for our table at Ruby's.  

Aub's is obsessed with sharks!!!

SO when we ate at Joe's crab shack and they had a SHARK ATTACK drink we had to get the alcohol free version of it.  There is a vial of red grenadine in the sharks mouth.  The waitress screams "SHARK ATTACK!"  Then pours it in the drink and everyone around cheers.

It's a fun thing.  The drink is nasty but you get to keep the plastic shark so that's cool.

We had to get a picture of Aubs with this hanging shark.  And yes she asked if she could climb up on the shark to eat her dinner.... hahaha!

I love this group of young women so much!  They make my heart happy!  I feel so blessed to have been able to get away for some much needed girls time!  Thanks to my mother in law for watching Ella for me and Justin for holding down the fork over the weekend!

This picture was taken on the balcony of our beach house.  It was wonderful to listen to the waves as we went to sleep every night.  Can't get enough of this place or this beautiful lady!

Why yes I think a pound of snow crab legs sound good to me!

These bibs were crackin' us up....

get it "crackin" us up....LOL!

Anytime you get to dip your dinner in melted butter its a good dinner if you ask me!

I love this picture!  We didn't even plan it.  The three of us were just taking a selfie, then later we noticed the girls were in it as well.  We cropped out the fat guy that was in the right hand corner.  You're welcome!

We literally just "hung" around for 5 days on the beach and IT WAS FABULOUS!!!