San Diego 2013 - LDS Temple

We were lucky enough to visit the San Diego Temple during our stay in California. San Diego's temple is stunning!

While my parents and the other kids did baptisms, Phil, Jocelyn and I entertained ourselves on the grounds and in the car. We spent time taking photos on the grounds, visiting the distribution store and just hanging out. Phil was mainly entertained by our new camera, Jocelyn by mom's phone and Me by singing beautiful renditions of primary songs...haha don't ask. :)

 It was a gorgeous day to be on the temple grounds.

It was fun to spend time with Jocelyn (on her birthday even!). She got to have her own photos taken. Here she is in all her 11 yr old glory. (I promise she's in there...just look close!)

It was a great way to spend time with family while on vacation. We love the Perucca clan!

And I love my Bennallack boy too :)

San Diego 2013 - Beach Fun & Jocelyn's Birthday

We visited the beach a lot during our vacay. The weather wasn't always hot but we still loved it! We especially loved playing in the sand. If the water was too cold to venture in before, it didn't matter once we were covered in sand. I guess it was a good way to get us swimming! We visited La Jolla Shores and Mission Beach throughout our stay.

Here's my kid building a sand castle :)

Jocelyn worked really hard to make this moat work and had to go back and forth from the water a lot of times to get what she wanted

La Jolla

This day was the day of burying each other. Chantel was the first victim. They dug a big hole...

and then Chantel disappeared! She looks happy here but she was really saying "Hurry and take the picture so I can get out!"

Proud of their project

Then Jocelyn wanted a turn and because she's little they went for the whole body cover. She also was freaking out at the end. 

Then Braden decided that he's "not claustrophobic at all" and wanted to be buried to prove he wouldn't freak out at the end like Chantel and Jocelyn. Yup...too bad that he was. He didn't freak out but everyone that got buried was more than ready to get out at the end.

I posted these photos before in my 32 week post but google plus conveniently made them into a GIF for me. Check out those preggo moves!

La Jolla Shores has tons of seals around that come in for the night beginning around 4. We had a fun time watching them for a while. They were funny to watch as the tried to get up on the rocks and just laid around, swam and barked at each other

Jocelyn also celebrated her birthday while we were gone. "Little" Jo-C is 11...how did that happen!?

Happy Birthday Jo-C!

San Diego 2013 - Cabrillo & Safari Park

Just up the road from our vacation house was the Cabrillo National Monument. This was where the first explorers discovered California/San Diego. It had beautiful views, an old lighthouse and a "great" informative documentary about sea life. :) We had a fun time exploring, looking across the bay to Mexico and learning about early California.

Phil loves squirrels...they're not Australian critters so he had fun following this guy around.

Mexico is just there behind me. The photo doesn't show it but we could see Tijuana quite well.

And when the parentals wanted to explore some more and little Jocey wanted to go through the Junior Ranger program, well, what were we to do? A game of truth-or-dare including impromptu dances and singing of course. All for the other visitors' viewing pleasure. Oh dear-we are a weird family!

Braden rocking gangnam style

Chantel improv-ing it

and Justin in his Napoleon Dynamite dance.

I may or may not have done a "belly" dance. Yes, attempted even with this preggo belly of mine. It was beautiful I'm sure! And Phil sang opera for us. Yes, we know how to keep busy haha!

Another day that week we visited the San Diego Safari Park. 

This place was HUGE! Apparently it can fit 2 Disneyland's inside of it! This is just the back half.

We went on the safari tram which was really cool. We were able to see a lot of animals out roaming in a natural habitat. There were a lot of baby animals too. So cute!

 

When Phil and I saw this guy we couldn't stop thinking of our puppy, Koda. 

Everything from his huge paws, the way he plopped down for a rest and even just the way he walked reminded us of Koda, our own little lion. :)

 We saw a bunch of different animals and ended our visit brushing the goats. They were cute little guys!

This guy attempted to butt Braden's arm right after this picture. Guess he wasn't ready for a brushing!

It was a short visit to the Safari Park but we got to see a lot and were out before the heat set in. Good times!