Happy Thanksgiving, and a picture overload

This year for Thanksgiving we made the 12 hour car ride to California to spend the holidays with Matt's extended family. We were a little nervous, but Cameron was an angel all the way there, and we were able to go all the way there in one day. We wanted to get out of town before the supposed "blizzard of the century" (which didn't happen) so we ended up having some extra time in Cali for just our family, and it was such a nice vacation!

Taking a break at McDonalds. Each stop we made was a little lengthy because we figured Cameron needed time to run and play a little. He's playing on the jungle gym here.
All tuckered out! Everything was good until about the last couple hours, when Cam started screaming and we couldn't get him to calm down. Then we had a little accident (everybody was fine) and had to do the police report, yadda yadda...but eventually we made it!
Matt is going to kill me for posting this, but...I just couldn't resist. When we got there, he realized he had forgotten his pj's. Luckily I had an extra pair, which he wore all week. Ha!
On Wednesday morning after visiting with Matt's Nana and Uncle Scott, we headed to the Scripps Aquarium. Matt and I thought it was cool, but Cam quickly got bored.
He did however, like the sharks!
That night we had dinner at Scott and Sonya's. Cam found his own favorite little place, under the bar stool, and spent a lot of the night there.
On Thanksgiving day we headed to Point Loma (overlooking the ocean) and went to see some tide pools. Cam thought it was awesome, and so did we.


Later that day we went to Seaport Village. Cam has a bird on his arm, if you can't tell. He thought they were fun to watch, but was a little wary of them being on him. I have no pictures of Thanksgiving dinner because Cam threw a huge fit and we had to head out early...
This chair has been in Matt's family for a long time now and his sweet Nana gave it to us to take home. Cam LOVES it!
This is at a cute little Chinese restaurant on Coronado Island.
Cameron's first time at the beach. He LOVED it, but a little too much. He wanted to run in the water and get totally soaked. It was November and kind of cold, so we had to stop him eventually and he threw another HUGE fit! We took him up to the sand instead and he was so mad that he did a face plant right in the sad, which upset him even more!
Loving the water...before the meltdown.



After he calmed down he burrowed around in the sand like a bulldozer. He was so filthy and had sand everywhere! Guess we'll try the whole beach thing when he's a little older next time.
The day after Thanksgiving we had left overs so that Matt and I could actually enjoy some of the Thanksgiving meal!
Matt's dad, cousin Yessenia, and aunt Sonya.
Matt's Nana and Mom.
Cameron hanging out at Scott and Sonya's.
So, that blizzard did hit...eventually and it happened to be when we were driving home. We left California on Saturday afternoon, made it to Vegas for the night, and started driving again on Sunday. The snow and roads were so bad we had to pull off in Fillmore in a nasty motel for the night. This is Cam at a little diner we went to...happy to be free of the car seat. He didn't tolerate the ride home nearly as well as he did the ride there. We were out of Fillmore as early as we could go on Monday morning, and finally got home later that day. After 3 days of driving home, we were already ready for a nap!