Lagoon

For Christmas Grandma and Grandpa Belly Pie gave everyone a ticket to Lagoon. The day in June we planned to use it ended up a little soggy but we still had a lot of fun. To bad my mom doesn't like to give the same gift two years in a row because we could handle doing this again.

I didn't get a ton of pictures, so there are a lot of people missing from these pictures. Sorry, I don't even think ShiAnne is in them guess if you wanted to be in the pictures you need to spend more time in kiddie land or something.

I say lets do it again next summer!

Vacation days 6 & 7

Our final two days of vacation were spent in Disneyland. We had soooo much fun!

Minnie Mouse's House


Playing

California Adventure


The Royal Family

Princesses

Looking back, this is one of my favorite parts of the whole trip. We wanted to watch the parade the last night and we were basically done doing what we really wanted to do so we decided to get a good seat. Shiloh and Cam sat down with the kids while Jill and I went to get treats, ice cream for most of us but Kyler has a cookie and ShiAnne had a churro. She is not much into ice cream. We sat on the curb and ate our treats while the kids danced in the street and ran around as we waited for the parade to start. It is always good to find some down time while you are there, to let the kids just run around, no standing in lines no being buckled into rides.

I was lucky enough to have Lizzy sitting on my lap during the parade and she caught the magic of it. The Belle float stooped right in front of us for quite a while. Belle is Lizzy's favorite princess and we had not yet seen her. Belle danced and sang and waved at everyone and then she turned to Lizzy and looking right at her she blow her a kiss. I think this made Lizzy's whole trip. It was just one of those moments when all the work is worth it.

We were all sad to leave the park that last night. ShiAnne even cried. I promised her I would bring her back in a couple years. She has already started planning it. Next time she hopes to be big enough to ride screaming.

I also wanted to thank Melissa for coming and joining us on Monday. Disneyland isn't the most fun place for someone who is six months pregnant and get to go there all the time but She sat with the babies and gave us the chance to get on a lot of rides. ShiAnne also like having some one her age there to rid the ride with. I hope they all had fun too.

Vacation day 4 & 5

We did a fun thing we didn't plan anything for Saturday so that we could do what ever we felt like doing when we got there. I guess we felt like swimming because in the morning we swam at the hotel pool. We had a lot of fun then we went and got some lunch and went out for ice cream. We had so much fun at the beach on the first day and we were so close that decided to go again. This time it was still tons of fun but a little more eventful.

The kids playing on the beach.

Building sand castles


A boy and the dirt what could be better?

After we got all settled in we went around the little bend and saw everything set up for a wedding. While we were there everyone going to the wedding strolled past us. The the little ring bearer got tired of waiting for the bride and started playing with Gideon on the rocks. Finally the bride's maids and the bride came. It was kind of fun to watch there wedding from a distance even though we weren't invited.


While the wedding was going on Shiloh had some excitement of his own. He had purchased a inexpensive boogie board so we ride some waves. He had taken a pretty good turn, I took a turn, Cameron took a turn and then Shiloh was out for another turn when he stepped on something and his foot started to hurt. He came back in and the top of his foot was bleeding. He didn't know what had caused it but he sat down on the rock to see if he could stop the bleeding. He said it stung pretty good but we thought it was just from the salt water and sand in it. While he was sitting there trying to figure out what had got his foot he said the pain and stinging started to spread across his foot. Soon the life guards came driving down the beach so Cameron flagged them down. They came to check out his foot and as soon as they saw it they said he had been stung by a sting ray they were common in the water around there. They cleaned up his foot and bandaged it. Then they asked if he was allergic to bee stings and said that often the reaction is similar. They told us that the sting ray injects a protein based poison and to go back to our hotel and that he should soak it in water as hot as he could stand it. This would help break up the poison. Despite the look on his face he was in pain, he was just glad to know what it was and was laughing at the way the life guards were describing the pain. When the life guards got there they asked what his pain level was at and he said a three. After they got done and he knew it was something real and it was okay for it to hurt it jumped up a few levels but as soon as we got the foot in the hot water the pain started going away and it didn't put a damper on our vacation at all. It just gave us a fun story to tell.

On Sunday we attended a ward in Oceanside and then headed up the mountain to see our friend the browns. the girls had lots of fun together and we enjoyed ourselves visiting eating and playing games. We spent the night there and the next day they joined us for a while in Disneyland.

Thanks to Melissa and Cameron for being such gracious host!

Vacation Day 2? and 3

On the second day we went to Disneyland but sadly we left our camera bag on the counter at the hotel. My sister took lots of pictures for us but I haven't got them from her yet so no pictures but we went to Disneyland two more day so still lots of pictures from Disneyland. On the third day we went to Seaworld.

And were off!


ShiAnne and Lizzy, Lizzy and ShiAnne


Left to right, top to bottom: (pic 1) Taking a break, (pic 2) I hope I never run into the shark they got that jaw from. (pic 3) It took a little while and some help from mom and dad but Lizzy finally got up the courage to touch a sting ray, (pic 4) after that the star fish were no big deal.


Left to right, top to bottom: (pic 1) Seeing the sea life is not the only thing to do in Seaworld you can also climb a rock and (pic 2) when you get tired of watching the see life no need to wait for the rest of the family you can just take off on your own. (pic 3) Starfish and sea urchins, who wouldn't want to touch them? (pic 4) Now this is the type of sea life that isn't scary to touch.


Gideon found napping in the stroller to work just fine....

(We ate lunch out of the back of the cars most days, to save a little or a lot of money and you seam to eat healthier.)
Jill tried to get some zzzzz in the car but it didn't last long......

and I thought I could do as the polar bears do and hibernate in a snow den but it was a little to cold for my liking. I guess we wouldn't be napping today.


After everyone recovered from nap time we took in a viewing of the the Sea Lion and Otter show, very fun.

That was our day at Seaworld.

Home Again and Vacation day 1

Hey we are finally back it was a long vacation but it was tons of fun and I took tons of pictures. I'm trying to figure out how to blog about it all without it becoming over whelming. I think I will report on our trip a day at a time so here it goes.
We left on Tuesday around 5 p.m. and drove to the Nevada/California State Line and Stayed at Whiskey Pete's, what a name for a hotel. Oh well, we were only there to rest our heads for a few hours then we got up and were on the road again.


The kids outside of the hotel Wednesday Morning.
Kyler, ShiAnne, Lizzy, Emmy and Gideon



Wednesday Morning we drove the rest of the way into Oceanside, Where we had an awesome place to stay. We went with my sister Jill and her husband Cameron. They own a time share and turned in their stay for two awesome suites. These rooms were larger then out last apartment. They had a master bedroom, a Kitchen and dinning room area, a living room, and a patio.


This is the view from our Patio. We were so close to the beach that when I forgot my camera. I just walked back to the room and got it. There was an ally way, a row of houses, a road and then we were on the beach. That's my kind of living.



Our family loved the beach and we had so much fun. It made us want to live in So. California just so we could go to the beach. The beach wasn't busy and the weather was great so everyone could just run and play and have their freedom.