The big holiday, part 1

This will be an extremely large blog as we have so many photos from our holiday to Auntie Ivanna's house. So, I'll be splitting it into quite a few parts. This is just the first full day at Auntie Ivanna's house.

Alex and Isaiah eating up at breakfast time (Alex in red, Isaiah in blue)

Some of you may already know that we, as a family, generally don't take too well to heat. And it was really hot! Here's the little boys having their nap (with a ceiling fan on too) - Alex left, Isaiah right.
And one of the things Michaela was most looking forward to was taking the dogs for a walk as she can still remember taking Akilah for walks when we were out in May '08! Lucky for her, both dogs are really well behaved on their lead, so she could do it by herself.
And to the play park at the end of the street. How fantastic that it's only a two minute walk up the road and most of the time when we went, it wasn't busy. Here's the boys swinging - Isaiah left, Alex right.
So day one was Mommy and Daddy's anniversary and we got to go for a late lunch/early dinner by ourselves while Granny and Auntie Ivanna took care of the kids. It was lovely and we went to the Olive Garden which is one of Mommy's favourite places to eat. Jet-lag wasn't too much of an issue on the way out, so we just got straight into California time.