Monday, 10 August 2009

California

We had the best trip this past week! We went to California with all of Vaughn's family and stayed at a beach house in Dana Point. We were only 30 minutes from Disneyland, so we spent 2 days there - it was SO hot and SO crowded but we loved every minute of it!! The beach was awesome - perfect weather and so much for the kids to do. They loved the sand, the ocean, the hot tub, the outside showers - all of it provided hours of entertainment for them! We were gone for 10 days but were so not ready to come home...wish we could have stayed another week!

We stayed in Vegas at the Excalibur on the way down to California. The kids loved staying in a castle. It was SO hot! The pool provided much relief.


Breakfast before hitting the road


Our beach house
Cole and Josh
Loving the hot tub


One of the water balloon battles
Jenna was a little clingy during the trip - this was the sight I saw ALL DAY LONG!
The kids painting themselves with chocolate pudding
Jenna really likes to paint! :)


These bikes were SO much fun! We had a blast riding around the beach - we were quite the sight and laughed the whole time!



One of Ashton's favorite places to be - in the warm shower
Fun in the baby pool! :)
Pretty impressive trenches were dug to get ready for water balloon battles


We love DISNEYLAND!



Jenna was so excited to see Tinkerbell - that is until we got up to her

A little nervous about "Pirates of the Carribean"

Nice!
The kids on Peter Pan - by the looks on their faces, you would've thought we were at the Haunted Mansion or something!


Our yummy dessert at the Rainforest Cafe

Sorry about all of the pictures - I took 486 so I think I did pretty good only posting this many!!

5 comments:

T & B said...

Loved the pictures! I am going to have to get the one of all of us with Tinkerbell! I wish we could have stayed longer too...

Unknown said...

FUN trip! Jealous. Talk my dad into doing a trip like this for our family! Thanks for sharing.

Mindi said...

Looks like you all had so much fun. The beach house looked amazing, and painting with pudding is a good idea- especially right by water.

Taylor Family said...

Looks like you had a blast!! Glad you had a great time with family. Disneyland and the beach.....you can never go wrong!

Christine said...

Too funny...my family stayed in that same beachhouse all the time growing up and then we had one just a couple houses down...crazy! It looks like you had a blast!!! And happy birthday!