California or Bust!

For weeks Jacoby and I had a little secret!! Jarod turned 30 on October 14 and for his Birthday we had planned a surprise trip to California for him. I couldn't wait to tell him so a few days before when Jarod got home from work we had a letter waiting for him on the table from Jacoby. It told him that since Jacoby can't talk but he wanted to be the one to tell Daddy where we were going for his 30th Birthday party they were going to play a game. Jacoby has this little pop up toy and he can do all them so I put little clues behind each one and when Jacoby popped them up Jarod got to see them. They were all clues about California like a bear, palm tree, etc. and the last one was a picture of a onesie.

Jarod could not figure it out so after forever I finally said, "how many layers does Jacoby have on today?". He looked and saw that he had a onesie on and a light went on so he took Jacoby's clothes off to find this cute onesie that had a map of the United States on it with a star over California and on the butt it said "California or Bust!". (Thanks Ash!!!)

Daddy and Jacoby were so excited!!!

We got on the plane a few days later. Unfortunately Jacoby came down with a 102 temp the night before in the middle of the night around 4 and we had to leave our house at 6 to catch our flight. We didn't know what to do but we finally decided to just go. We had Jacoby still in his PJ's and once we got to 10,000 feet Daddy got up to go the bathroom and when he came back I had changed Jacoby's clothes into this T-shirt!

Jarod was so embarrassed and it was so worth it! Everyone commented on it through out our long day of traveling!

I felt so bad for Jacoby he was so sick and this was the beginning of the longest day of his life! He was such a trooper on the 5 1/2 hour flight to San Jose because of the 175 head winds we had- so fun! And then again on our leg from San Jose to Ontario. Once we got to Ontario our poor baby had to get in his car seat for a 3 hour drive. Let's just say we were all relieved when we finally made it to the Blythe, California where we had lots of our friends waiting for us and 90 degree weather!!