Cali trip

This is a little bit late, but with the semester ending, finals week, and planning a 50th surprise birthday party for mom all at once has taken up most of my time lately. 

For Thanksgiving we went to Cali to spend it with my sister and the kiddos. Seriously my niece and nephew are at the funnest stages. We could get them to do anything we said. Trevor had picked a lemon off of a bush outside their place and my niece, Harlie peeled it and squeezed every last drop of it into a glass. Trevor told her that if she drank the whole thing that she could come have a sleepover at our hotel that night. You better believe she started chugging that thing. She almost threw up several different times while doing so, but she was determined to get her sleepover. I have a video of it, but for some reason it wont post it. Anyways, we let the kids have a sleepover at our hotel and while we were in the hot tub playing ( since the pool was ice cold ) we told the kids that if they didn't jump in the pool we weren't buying them any ice cream at McDonalds later. They all cannon balled in after that. It was such good entertainment. The next day my sister asked us if we would watch the kids for a little while so she could get some Christmas shopping done. Somehow by the time we were done watching them they ended up looking like this. 

We are such good babysitters. Of course my niece wanted nothing to do with it since that was "breaking the rules." She literally freaks out if someone is breaking the rules. She went home and wrote 10 sentences of "I am a good kid and will never break the rules" and she wasn't even the one that got in the mud. 

While we were out there we went and spent some time in San Francisco. The only time either of us had been out there was when we did our engagement pictures, but we really didn't get to tour around. So, we did some major shopping on the Wharf, tracked down the Full House, and we also went to Alcatraz. Alcatraz was pretty amazing. We did an audio tour of the prison which told stories of inmates and all kinds of crazy stuff.