Santa Monica & Santa Barbara

We had the best mini babymoon in California (the big one is coming in October!). Brady has been traveling so much lately. It was nice to get away and spend time together. 

We flew into LAX on Wednesday morning and went to straight to brunch at Cora's Coffee Shoppe in Santa Monica (which was delicious!). Then we spent a couple hours at the Santa Monica Pier and the beach. The sun and sand felt amazing. 

Brady loves to brunch

Dream job

Soo many people

Not feeling great about a bikini these days

We did a little shopping before heading back to the hotel to freshen up. I was craving a good salad so we went for dinner at True Food Kitchen. 

Shopping :)

Really into frozen yogurt on this trip

Healthy restaurants. Brady orders pizza.

Beautiful sunset

We woke up early on Thursday to drive to Santa Barbara, which is the most picturesque city. I felt like I was in It's Complicated (my all-time favorite movie) and I loved it. We spent the entire day exploring Santa Barbara - beaches, restaurants, shops (all immaculate). We did pretty much the same thing on Friday and Saturday.

Obligatory 

These palm trees!

Santa Barbara is beautiful 

Oysters

I would highly recommend staying at The Fess Parker

Resort pool

Shopping (again)

What do you know... more oysters

Sushi date! Fried/baked sushi definitely isn't as good 

Nothing better than mornings at the pool

Stalking sailboats

The homeless in Santa Barbara are so clever

Dad bod?

Sunshine. Sand. Salt water. Palm trees. 

Pizza at the Lucky Penny

How Brady spent most evenings... Dad would be proud.

We had an early flight out of LAX on Sunday so we drove back to LA Saturday night. We stopped in Venice Beach for dinner and to see the sunset.

Sunset at Venice Beach

Surfers at sunset

These colors

Creeping on the lifeguard. I'm so envious of this job

More baby posts coming this week...

In case you missed our Instragram/Facebook post... we're expecting :)