Monday, August 6, 2018

See You in San Diego!

Summer travel adventures, here we come!  This year's MPS Conference is being held in San Diego, which also happens to be where our dear friends, the D family, live!  Can't wait to see them and our Sanfilippo family!



Of course, the one day he can't sleep in is the one day he sleeps late.  Go figure.  Time to get up for the plane, buddy!




     


Ready to go!







Excited for the plane!





WILLPower is headed to San Diego!




Checking out San Diego!  We made it!




     


     

Saying "Hi!" to friends at the conference!





Awesome Sanfilippo Mommas!





Kisses from poster M!




     

Little Buddy loved this statue!




Chillin' at the marina!



"Can we go to E's house now?"



After checking in at the conference, we headed over to see the D family!  We were so excited to be reunited with them!


Hugs for Ms. L!




     


     

Little Buddy was so excited to see J again!  He immediately lit up and had lots of smiles and hugs for him!  J is such a great friend to our boy.





The girls hit it off immediately and were ready for a slumber party.  Two of the three may have stayed up ALL night!





So good to be united with great friends!





Fun faces!




     

Love these kids and wish we could be with them more often!





Little Buddy and J watching some Daniel Tiger!










Our best attempt at getting 6 kids to look/smile at one time!


And then it was time to head back to the conference.  So much going on!  The kids hung out in Camp Courage while Momma and Daddy went to sessions and met with other families.


Little Buddy featured on a poster about kids still needing treatments.





Hanging with friends!





While the kids are in Camp Courage, the parents will have a kid-free dinner!






N and Little Buddy!


They had a really nice outdoor reception at the conference that evening too.




     





Enjoying the evening!



Lots of work to be done at the conference, including a few focus groups for the Foundation.


Ready to gather data!




While Momma did some work, the kids enjoyed dinner with Daddy!




     




Little Buddy's excited to have dinner with Daddy!






Little Sister's mean-mugging for the camera.






     



Beautiful San Diego!






Guarding food for the focus group!





Love our friends from all over!




     



Lots of fun at the painting station!





     

Hanging by the pool with great friends!






The kids had so much fun in Camp Courage with Coach J!


The conference always ends with a banquet.  This year it was a Super Heroes theme and we had so much fun being with our Sanfilippo family.  It's just nice to be with people who intrinsically get you and your situation.



Little Buddy was so excited to see Spiderman...






..until he locked eyes with Spiderwoman!





It was love!








Sanfilippo family dinner!



     

The kids didn't want to let Mr. J from Camp Courage go!



     

Little Buddy and his friend Ms. L from Sweden!




     



Loving on Ms. A!




     



Little Sister was starting to get pretty silly at the end!



So lucky to have these people in our lives!






Little Buddy and L!




     

Little Buddy and O!





     

So much Sanfilippo love right here!




For our last full day in San Diego, the D family met us for the MPS 5K and then we headed to the beach!





WILLPower is ready(ish) to run!






Ms. L and Mr. R took second place over all for Women's and Men's categories!




Congrats to Daddy on a good race!





     


They could not get enough of these super heroes!





Ran into Z!



Blessed by this family's friendship!




Little Sweetie made a wish before we left.  I don't know her wish, but I know what mine was.





Ready to check out of the hotel and head to the beach!


Other than a man trying to contend that Little Buddy wasn't handicapped enough to have a handicap tag, we had great fun in the Pacific Ocean!







To the ocean!



Found the ocean!






Little Buddy getting his feet wet!







Dancing with Daddy in the ocean!






Loving the beach!




      

Bravely heading back to the ocean!    




     


     



Little Sweetie can't get enough!  She kept pretending to surf.






Little Buddy, hat thief.






Lucky to do all of this life with this guy at my side!


After the beach, we did a quick dinner at a local brewery before turning in for the night.  What a fun, but fast, week!




     



Love having adventures with these kids!  May there be many more adventures to come!





Happy boy ready to head home!

So there was our trip!  We had a blast but I am happy to get back home and try to get everyone back on schedule.  Such an amazing time with old friends and new, and such wonderful memories made.  Blessed to be able to do this.

Good night, 

LSM

Little Sweetie's Momma





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