House of Hurst: Nana's Birthday Bash

Most of our little family took a road trip down to San Diego this past weekend for Nana's 94th birthday celebration. Tegan was lucky enough to be able to spend the weekend with Grandpop, Granny D, Uncle Einster, and Aunt Aya. Alex was able to get a half day on Friday, so we planned a leisurely nap-filled drive. Boy were we wrong! Due to frantically trying to pack the morning of, Henley barely got any sleep before the trip. I was hoping he would sleep the entire way to San Diego, but instead he slept 40 minutes! We didn't even make it to Brea before he woke up! We dropped Tegan off and sang songs, watched movies, got snacks, etc for a whopping 40ish minutes until we made it to Mission Viejo. We stopped for some much need Starbucks, a crawl in the grass and a diaper change.

Super Dad. He actually pooped 2 minutes after this change.

We were optimistic that he would nap the rest of the way. We are always so hopeful! haha Well we drove for another 40 minutes with no sleep, and then we hit rush hour down in San Diego. So we pulled off to University Town Center for some dinner and relaxing. Henley may have slept for a total of 1 hour all day, but he was in a great mood being out of the car.

He loves fountains!

Dinner at Veggie Grill

We finally made it down to the hotel around 9 pm. We started the trip at 12:30. What a day! When we got to the room we immediately put Henley down to stretch out his legs and figure out what we needed to baby-proof. After 5 minutes of crawling, this is what he looked like:

We nicely asked the front desk to mop our floor. :) And then we had some quiet nursing time before finally falling asleep.

Nana's birthday picnic was held at Shelter Island in Point Loma. The park was beautiful and it was nice to see so much family. Many people hadn't yet met Henley, and I want to expose him to as much family as possible. Nana gave an amazing speech and many people told stories about Nana throughout the years. We discussed doing this again in ten years at Nana's 104th birthday!

See I told you...Super Dad.

Nana can always make Henley laugh.

Cousin Logan playing Peek-a-Boo

We spent more time at Nana's house before leaving Sunday afternoon. I'll spare the details, but the ride home was a much nicer experience. Overall it was a great weekend filled with wonderful people, tasty food and beautiful places. Henley is one lucky boy!