My Mommy's visit

My Mom and Dad came to visit us last Tuesday and they just left this morning. I love it when we have any visitors and it's especially fun when it's my Mom. Chels was so sad to see them go this morning. She kept asking me if she could go to Grandma's house, she would tell me she'd be right back. I had to break her little heart and make her stay home. Some day she'll be able to go to Grandma's house and stay with her. We had lots of fun while they were here. The main reason I love to have visitors is because we actually get out and explore the places we've lived. We hardly ever do the touristy things unless someone comes to our house. I think the funnest part of their visit was just having my mom around though, especially right now while I'm not feeling the greatest. They even kept Chels in their room every night so that when she'd wake up in the morning she wouldn't come bounding into my bed, that was so nice! Thanks for coming and visiting mom and dad, we had lots of fun!

The first few nights they were here we stayed up until 2:00 am to see the rocket that was supposed to launch but they kept scrubbing (cancelling) it. We finally saw it on the 3rd night they were here. It was worth the wait! This is the rocket when it first ignited.

Unfortunately it was cloudy so this is pretty much all we saw after it took off, still cool though!

My parent's watched Chels for us while we went to our Dr.'s visit. This is what they did while Jake and I were gone, so cute.

We went to visit Hearst Castle on Saturday up in San Simeon, CA. It's about 2 hours north of the base. It was interesting. It's pretty much this huge castle that this really rich guy built because he loved the castles in Europe so much. He either commissioned things to be built for him or he bought them from Europe after WWI when stuff was cheap. This is the outdoor swimming pool.

This is the view of the main part. It still wasn't as cool as the castles we have seen in Germany and Europe but it was pretty neat.

My mom and dad on the bus on the way up to the castle.

The indoor swimming pool. This was my favorite part although I was scared to death Chels was going to fall in.

Chels being silly outside the visitor's center.

This is the pier in San Simeon.

A family pic on Sunday, I thought it turned out nice for a snapshot.

On Monday we went to the La Purisima Mission here in Lompoc. I've never gone to see it even though it's really old and historical so I was happy I finally went and looked around, it was interesting.

It was so cold and rainy the entire time they were here (OK it was only in the 50's but it seemed cold to me!). This is me being stupid and pretending to lift this thing, it really just looks like I'm constipated or something.

A waterfall fountain at the mission.

We also went to the beach last night to watch the sunset. I'm kicking myself for not getting my mom's pics she took. It was so cold we were all wearing winter coats though. It has not been "sunny California" here lately!!!