San Diego HERE WE COME!

Thursday morning, I found myself with my head in the palm of my hands trying so hard not to cry. I just got off the phone with William's, Scout leader, Principle, School teacher and School councilor. The Friday before, Grandma Reidhead, Daddy and me told William about his birth Dad. At first he took this news just fine, I was surprised at how okay he was with everything. Well by the end of the next week. William was not doing FINE, lets just say he is very angry and hurt. I was sitting on the end of my bed, and Spencer came in the room and asked, Crystal can you have the kids packed and ready to go by 11:00am? Yes, why where are we going? He goes we are taking the kids to San Diego and were leaving at 11:00! I asked can we afford to go? Yes, we have some income tax money left over if we eat cheap and stay within our budget we can go! I did not ask any further questions for fear Spencer would change his mind! Spencer does nothing on the Spur of the moment, everything is always very planned and thought out! I was not going to let him back out of this deal!

We decided to go to Sea World first! The kids were so excited to see everything! Each 1 of them had a request to see something different! I had to explain over and over we will be here all day and we will see every thing!


William got to see his Tree Frogs! He was so happy to see the "LITTLE GUYS"!

Wayne wanted to see the Sharks! It took alot of coaxing to get Trey to step into the Shark tube! You can tell by this picture he was just not that sure about those big great white sharks swimming all around him!

You have to take a Surf Board picture! The boys found snails on the ground at their feet. They were loading up their pockets! I had to get on to them about leaving the poor snails alone!

This Flamingo thought William was a Flamingo because his shirt was orange, it kept honking at him and having staring contests with him!

All of the kids thought it was so funny that a Milk Cow was wearing a pair of shorts and sun glasses!

Spencer took the 4 older kids down to bottom of Shamu's soak zone. I stayed up on higher ground with Sage and the cameras. They all had so much fun watching the killer whales! Trey was trying to tell me all about the water and how it got him wet. Wayne thought the water tasted nasty!

Spencer took William on the big water ride behind Trey. We got soaked just standing near the ride!

Daddy and William after the big ride! William thought it was fun! Mom you should go but, I will stay with the kids this time! He did not want to admit he got a little scared!

Let me introduce you to the Star Fish Bullies! All four of MY children kept flipping them over on their backs. NICE! Finally we just left the poor defenseless star fish alone.

I tried my hardest to get all 5 to sit still for a pretty picture. Jayden refused and this was the best 1 I could get of the group.

This bird was sitting on top of our van when we left the park. The kids thought it was pretty funny! We had so much at Sea World. The boys loved it! Spencer and I had so much fun watching the kids see the animals for the first time!

After, Sea World we drove straight to the Ocean to let the kids collect sea shells. It was too cold to swim so we just walked along the shore! I love walking along the shore line. Everything is so peaceful.

Saturday we went to the San Diego Zoo. It involved a lot of this! Walking up and down hills. We had fun and got to see a lot of animals! Our favorite was the Monkey cages and the Hummingbirds house! The Humming birds would go right for JayJay's head they thought she was a flower with those big green bows on her head! It was comical!


None of the pictures turned out that good because NO ONE WOULD LOOK AT THE CAMERA! Little stinkers! We went back to the hotel did a load of laundry, went out to eat, walked the ocean, and then ate ice cream! Our Hotel was in the ghetto and lets just say we heard lots of things all night long from our neighbor the HOOKER! Never again will we sleep in the CHEAPEST HOTEL we can find!

Sunday we went to the Wild Animal Park. I loved it! It was so much better than the Zoo! They had so many animals to look at. The kids really enjoyed themselves! This is the only family picture we got of all 7 of us! The funny thing about this picture is other people wanted to take our picture! We were a sight to be seen! Who in the world has 5 kids these days! I kept getting questions from people, so how many little ducklings do you have following after you? What are their names and how close in age are they?!!! Too funny I thought!


Trey was having trouble with Cramps in his little legs. He would just stop walking and start screaming my leg is broken! Then proceed to drag it behind him like Tiny Tim! I would laugh and Spencer being the compassionate one would help Trey! I did my fair share of carrying Trey around as well! I just could not stop laughing at the poor kid!

Jayden got into a staring match with this bird.

Jayden puts her hands on her little hips she is going to scare it off!

Ohh Look Jayden won the bird bowed down and turned and walked away!

I think the coolest part was being able to pet the Deer and Antelope in the petting zoo! Trey would just go lay on top of 1! Sage even got to pet them! William is such a softy! I really don't know if he will ever be able to shoot an animal! He loves them too much.




We took them to a Toy Train Model Museum! They really liked to see all of the trains! I thought it was neat as well! So many trains to see!



One more picture for Mom by the big fountain! Then we can run around it!

All and all we had a blast! The kids enjoyed themselves and we enjoyed just being together as a family and making memories with each other! We are already planning our next great and grand adventure! When we got home William had a Post card from Austin in the mail waiting for him. He smiled and had me read it to him. He has messy handwriting Mom! He seemed to be okay with things. I am okay with things as well. This is going to take some time and understanding from everyone involved but, we can all love William and be apart of his GIGANTIC heart!