Mothers Day.

Oh mothers day. I won’t lie. I missed my mom today…shes only in Ireland and it made me realize how sad this day has to be for those without mothers. I, at least, got to FaceTime with my mama…some don’t get that option…and I’m grateful for that yet sad for so many!!

I love Mothers Day…and can’t wait for the days when my kids are old enough to make me breakfast and paint my nails. haha Not really. I hate breakfast and don’t paint my nails.  Daddy did a great job helping the kids make my present…its cute.

I’m so proud to be the mommy to these 2 children…I’m a lucky lady.

 

Sea World is great to teachers! For the past 3-4 years they have offered teacher appreciation deals…and usually they include a free year pass for us.  Being that I’m married to a teacher as well, it works out well for our family! I know because of that documentary a lot of people hate on the place but I love it…I’ve always loved it. I remember telling my parents after our first visit there that I was going to be a dolphin trainer when I grew up! haha And that is one thing my son inherited from me…he LOVES all underwater animals.  He tells me that he wants to be a scuba-diver veterinarian when he grows up!

This years Sea World deal was a free year pass for all teachers AND they came with 3 complimentary one day passes too!  BUT you have to redeem your year pass before May 22nd.  And man has May snuck up on us.  We slacked and waited and then we realized that our only day that we had no plans was on Mothers Day. Soooo…we decided to venture down to San Diego. I was hoping that all the other moms wouldn’t want a stressful day of crowds and stayed home….and I was surprised that Sea World wasn’t packed. It was perfect.

They changed the entrance of the park…its pretty awesome now with all kinds of “Explorer Reefs”. Owen was in heaven being able to touch all those nasty fish (yeah I’m not as big of a fan of underwater animals in my older age!)

 

Have you seen that Kardashian episode where they get pedicures with “cleaner fish”…well these are them. They are little fish that “clean” your hands of dead skin!! They attack your hand and suck on them. Its disgusting! haha Owen loved it. The fish LOVED Daddy’s hand…and Ella and I opted to just watch.

Other pools had some little bamboo something sharks…yeah scary! lol

Owen was seriously in heaven!!

But overall we did some exploring, show watching and had a great time.  We didn’t stay forever…which was nice. There were no crazy tired melt-downs, no whiny about walking to long…it was JUST RIghT.  AND the minimal crowds was a total bonus too!!

We saw the Sea Lion show and it was funny because Ella wasn’t interested in sitting with her family…lol little Miss Independent.

Ella is even scared of the aquariums.  Its kinda funny.  When fish swim by the glass she freaks out! haha SOOOO different than her brother. 

We made a trip to see Shamu…and both kids though it was hilarious that they swam upside down…

 

It was a great EASY day at Sea World. I’m happy we have Sea Passes and a few more passes for Owen and some friends and family. Will give us some options this summer forsure!

It didn’t seem like a crazy day but the way Ella finally fell asleep in the car was hilarious!!! She was wore OUT!

We stopped at Red Robin (one of mommys favorites) and had a nice dinner (also melt-down free wow it WAS Mothers Day!!!).   

So another great mothers day in the books. We’ll be celebrating again soon with my MIL who wasn’t up for it last weekend with my FIL just getting out of the hospital. And then we’ll celebrate AGAIN when Bernie gets home too!! I’m not complaining…actually pretty excited.