Holt Happenings

Monday, July 12, 2010

St. George, the Fourth, and a Campfire, oh my

We headed for St. George for a few days last month. It's a great getaway, even in the summer.

Elsa loves the water

Getting shakes with Lindsey and Halle

Playing in the fountains

The 3rd at the cabin celebrating Isabelle's birthday

Sparkler fun

The 4th

Greta took charge and conducted the fireworks with her magic glow stick. She would say things like, "I did it!/ Bibbity bobbity boo!" and fireworks would go off.

We spent a day in PC at the Mammen's. Here we are making smores after dinner.

and a cute baby in a hammock.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Saturday Morning

Don't you ever just want to curl up in front of the TV with your pillow, blanket, Cinderella and pour yourself some tea? This is how I found Greta when I came upstairs.

Friday, June 25, 2010

It really deserves it's own post. It is AMAZING. Kayce said when she went there for the first time she understood why people live in LA. When we were there I was ready to move to LA. She was so excited to take us and Brock & I LOVED it. The tram ride up, the incredible setting, the art work and furniture, the grounds and gardens and the building itself are truly stunning. I couldn't get enough. We met our good friend Hannah there and her two darling boys. She commented that she was glad she went there before she had kids, I can see why -there is so much to take in. The buildings are made out of a beige travertine (16,000 tons) that was taken from the same quarry as the Colosseum and Trevi Fountain in Rome. The gardens and are gorgeous. They are set up to wander around and around in and just soak up all the beauty.

I wanted to take this home

and this

who doesn't LOVE this Van Gogh?

just love Sargent's portraits

Lulu and Nathan running

Heading home

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Disney

This trip also marked our first time taking a child to Disneyland. Greta, as many of you know loves Cinderella. She talks to her, sings like her, watches and adores her. Her love also extends to the other princesses, so Brock and I were very excited to be able to take her to see Cinderella and watch that little one's dream come true. It did not disappoint. I was worried when it came time(after the 45 min. wait) she would get scared but the second we rounded the corner, she walked right up to Ariel and gave her a hug. Then proceeded to talk and talk to her. That Ariel was about the sweetest thing ever, the first thing Greta told her was that she went to church (don't ask me where that came from) and Ariel looked at her and said "Oh, do you pray at church?". Greta said yes, and proceeded to tell her all sorts of things about nursery. Next was Snow White who she walked right up to, hugged and continued to talk to. Last, (luckily Cinderella was there that day) she RAN over to her and hugged her. You could see the look of magical disbelief on her face that she was really there. It was pretty sweet. Seeing Minnie & Mickey, riding the teacups, the Peter Pan ride and seeing Mary Poppins in the parade (really the whole parade) were all huge hits. The best part for me was that Brock's parents took Elsa to Sea World with the Hatch's so we got to really enjoy it with Greta.

Friday, June 18, 2010

CA Part 2

Next we headed to a beach house in Oceanside for a week with the Holts. I have fond memories of Spring Break trips with the kappas to this very spot, it doesn't seem like that long ago. It was so nice to be there with family.

Amber's birthday our first night there.

Trying to take advantage of all Southern Cali has to offer, we headed over to La Jolla to see the sea lions.

San Diego Zoo

The pandas

Greta and Halle

The whole crew headed to Balboa Island for the day - even the Mammen's drove down to join us. We did it all: rode the ferry over, ate at Ruby's on the pier, rode the ferris wheel, had Balboa bars and looked at all the amazing homes on the island.