Happy 27th!!

On the last full day of my family's trip, we celebrated David's birthday.  We let him open his presents early in the morning, just in case he wanted to wear anything he received.  Later in the day we headed over to Paso Robles to do some wine tasting (I'll post on that separately).  Then we headed back to Bako for dinner and ice cream cake!!  We had a wonderful day all together, celebrating my hubby's birthday! 

new A&M shirt

Lily giving daddy her present

she's showing him the stickers she put on the card

reading him her card

thank you hug

Rangers shirt

cowboys shirt

Here's some cute pictures of Ashlee and Lily before we headed out to Paso.  Doesn't Lily look cute in her new outfit from Annie and Ashlee?

Love this one...and love she is holding her num nums

Sequoia National Park

On Thursday afternoon we headed to Sequoia National Park.  The park is only about an hour and half drive from our house, but as we learned you had to drive another hour/hour and a half to get the the Sequoias.  It was quite an interesting drive....we spent most of the time driving right on the side of the mountain, but it was beautiful.  I had no idea the trees grew at such a high altitude!  I'm so glad we ventured out because it was amazing.  I am really thankful for our move out here.  We are getting to see some unbelievable things I don't think we would have seen had we not lived out here.

Tunnel Rock

After our stop at the visitor center: Lily got a button, bear puppet book, a floppy hat, and another book to add to her travel collection.

Hospital Rock - some one got hurt when we were at the visitor center.  One of the rangers wisely said, "well...at least they were at hospital rock."  clever.

about to walk the Sherman Trail

Lily loved being carried down the stairs.  she said "weee" the whole time.

magnificent

all of us in a tree!

i mean...seriously amazing!

me and ash!

Lily turned and said "big tree".  she's smart.

General Sherman - the largest tree by volume in the world

thankfully, Lily posed for some cute pictures.

my favorites!

she was in total awe!

posing with her Auntie

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family picture with Lily being a goober (look at her glasses)



no glasses this time!



standing on a stump

mom by the bottom of a tree...it was crazy!

Lily walking through a tree

showing Grampy the tunnel

Ashlee made me stand by the edge...

it was so beautiful!

I'm so glad we all got to experience this together.  It was a very special day.