CALIFORN..I...A..

July 22-29 2011
It has been forever but I am ready to get caught up. First off our California Trip! We had soooo much fun. We decided not to take Ella this time and we are glad we did. The drive alone was amazing without her! ( I know that is sad to say but it was really a good break for Trav and I to just be with the boys) My whole family went except Ella, Jackson ( a nephew) and Judd (nephew on a mission). So total there was 47 of us. It was a crew but it was so fun to all be together. We stayed in  a Beach House on Newport Beach, we had ideal weather the entire time. We beached it everyday except Wednesday when we went to Disneyland. It really was an awesome trip, the kids had a blast and next time I think we will take Miss Ella :) although I think she did just fine without us thanks to Shupe's and Amy and KP and our neighbors, she got tossed around but loved every minute of it! Tons and Tons of pictures....

The Whole Crew... all 47 of us....

Our little family minus Ella...

Abby was always pulling faces for the my camera...

The boys heading out to do some boogie boarding...

the water is a lot colder than the Hawaii water we are used to...

about mid afternoon you could always find brig curled up on a blanket somewhere on the beach sound asleep...

We saw dolphins everyday, it was awesome..

Newport Temple was so awesome... and I found out it is the only temple that has been payed for strictly by the members in the area because they wanted one so bad... pretty cool!

Our 2 beach houses...the one we are all at and also the one right next to it were the ones all 47 of us stayed in...

that is how close the beach was to us. it was awesome..

everytime we missed Ella, we would give Miley little hugs and get our fix...

this guys was doing the coolest boogie board tricks one night when we were at the beach, I had to take some pictures, Travis wanted me to post that it was him, so this is really Trav...:)

having a baseball game on the beach..

my cute nieces..

striking a pose...

the mom's taking pictures of their girls... I thought it was funny and had to take a picture of it...

we tried jumping, we couldn't quite do it like the teenagers..

My nephew James would jump in front of my camera everytime I got it out, so i told him I was going to put them all on the blog! so here he is striking all sorts of poses...

the love of my life..

Briggy loved the beach but he hated when he got sand in his swimsuit...

Digging for sand crabs...

there were lots of sand castles built..

parley having a snack..

one afternoon this half eaten seal washed up right in front of us, I can't even tell you how bad it stunk, they had to bring a backhoe on the beach and take it away to bury it..

everybody helping dig this castle..

Travis even got in on these poses with james...such nerds...

DISNEYLAND...

 Most of these Disneyland pictures were taken with my phone so they didn't turn out that great, but you get the idea..

briggy wasn't too sure about this ride, being that it was his first...

the nemo submarine...

winnie the pooh was definitely a favorite..

star tours made travis and I totally sick...

the only characters we saw, I was quite dissappointed in that part of disneyland, we didn't see any characters..

we did see Mickey and Minnie but we didn't want to wait in line for pics so i told trav to take a picture of them with this family :)

bugs life movie...

we were there from 8:00 am - midnight, it was a fun day! the highlight..... I took Parley on splash mountain with a fast pass, right as we get to the top about to get on the ride I see him dancing around a little, I aske him if he has to go potty and he says yes, I tell him to hold it, we get on the ride and he just couldn't take the sound of all the running water, and just as we were going down the huge hill just let it all out and peed his pants, we get off and I am like at least everybody looks like they peed their pants because it is such a wet ride. we went to the nearest gift shop and bought 18 dollar pair of underwears!! ya gotta love disneyland!

It was a great trip, of course it was fun to come home to Ella but we had an awesome time!