NorCal Visit

It was the day before school was being let out for the holidays that Jake mentioned visiting his parents during the break and I'm really glad he did.  The kids break was late this year so it worked out really nicely that we were able to fit in Christmas, New Years and then a quick visit up north.  It had been about a year and a half (crazy how time flies) since our last visit, so we were all excited to be up in Paradise for the weekend.  

The first day it ended up raining all day long so we started the morning off by doing some family bowling.  Kids had a lot of fun and actually were stiff competition for Uncle Jake.  It wasn't until the end when Madden accidentally dropped a bowling ball on Jake's foot that we figured it was time to head out.  You can see the pain in Jake's face in the picture.

We headed back to Paul and Suzie's where we ended up spending the rest of the day.  The kids played a ton of games together.  Pretty sure Skylar and Dom played 15 rounds of memory.  I had some fun one on one time with sweet Mika and the boys made us listen to their tween music.  We had a nice taco dinner and called it a day.

Lucky for us the weather cleared up the next day and we were able to get outside.  We headed down to Chico to take a nice walked around Bidwell Park.   We ate lunch in downtown Chico and then headed back to Paradise to hang out at Arielle and Brian's house.  Everyone played foosball and the boys had a nerf gun battle (Madden was in heaven).

Another reason for the trip was to be able to celebrate Suzie's birthday with the family.  We had a lovely dinner at the Rice Bowl in Chino.  Suzie gave us her wonderful words of wisdom which had some of us in tears and ended with us all in laughter.

The next morning Paul and Suzie came by our hotel to wish us safe travels home.  The trip was a great way to start the new year.