9 "girls nights out" in CALIFORNIA

Its already been a year since I was posting about our annual Miller family trip to California. Last year me, Derek and the girls all flew and had quite the adventure. This year Derek couldn't get work off both jobs so I decided short notice that me and the girlies would catch the long 10 hr drive down with Dereks parents and his little brother. We drove through the night there and back so the drive part wasn't too bad other then Taya getting car sick and puking on the way down :(. 9 nights is the longest either of the girls have spent away from Derek, and its been about 4 years sence I've spent more then 2 nights away, so needless to say we were SUPER excited to get Derek hugs when we got home. Anyway, as usual I'll let a million pictures sum up the trip, enjoy! :)

The first thing we did when we got to Carlsbad was go to a Padres game courtesy of GGpa Miller. It was SO fun! It was all 3 of ours, first MLB game and we had an absolute blast!

Tell me that bottom left picture isn't a perfect add pic for the Padres :) Taya was quite the trooper through such a long game. Some worker for the stadium came up and gave her that hat, poor girl has a bit of a noggin though so I had to stretch it before it would fit!

Rylee Loved the game but got a little bored half way through so we were super thankful for fun cousins to sit by! Her and Jacob (above) are a ton a like and talked non stop the whole time they sat by eachother.

This is my favorite! Taya made her way down to Grandpa Jack and Grandma Nadine. We dont see them enough so I LOVE any pictures we get with them. Jack has a few timeshares in Cali  that all of his kids and their kids...and their kids come and stay at once a year. It makes for a huge group of fun people and good family time together! We're lucky to have such a generous set of Grandparents!

Boog and Tonga :) Tonya kinda got to play the roll of "dad" during our vaca :) The first night we stayed at her house before heading to Carlsbad, she even expierenced the joy of Taya puking in her bed and then pooping in her tub first thing in the morning! She wasnt even going to wake me up! she's always so good to help me with the girls anytime I need...all of dereks family was. It made for a much easier and enjoyable trip then me having to do it alone!

Now for the Beach pics! the WHOLE entire week except for a brief couple of hours our last day before heading home, it was cloudy cloudy cloudy! :( Even though we didn't leave with much of a tan, we had TONS of fun!

I'm always so thankful for Dereks awesome parents. They are SO good to our girls and us.. They always jump at the chance to play with Rylee and Taya. I'm so glad my girls have the chance to get to be close with them!

Caden, Avery, Brooklyn, Ry and Tay

Best little buddies, Brooklyn and Rylee

Makayla

The girls had lots of fun playing with cousins they rarely get to see! Rylee loved playing with Makayla and Brooklyn. I wish we didn't live so far from everyone!

Tayas been working on cutting her bottom molars so she hasn't really been herself :( give her the sand and a huge ball though and she was a pretty darn happy camper :)

All in all we had a BLAST, thanks to Dereks parents who let us tag along, to Jack and Nadine for having such a fun place for us to go, and to everyone who helped me with the girls!