Well we have just returned from our vacation in California... we stayed in the Laguna Beach area in a sweet house on the hill, I have uploaded, I don't even know, how many pictures and it has taken me for-ev-er to get this done... so here we go! I'll keep the captions short cause with this many pictures I'm sure non of you will read this anyways...
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| The kids putting on the FINAL "sticker" to our Disneyland countdown!!!! |
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and we're off, Mary (Brad's mom) took us to the airport Sunday the 10th of October... I couldn't resist snapping a picture of these three cuties carrying their luggage through the airport!!!
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| When we landed I told Parker to show me how excited he was that we were finally there!!! This is the response I got.... |
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| This is the amazing view we had from the house we stayed in.... |
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| the sunset that first night we were there!! Seriously the views from our house were to die for!! |
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| I had to take a picture of SOME of the food we bought, ... food for 21 people for a week, is A LOT of FOOD!! |
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| This is a view from ONE of the balcony's,, there were I believe 59 steps to get from the driveway to the house.... a little difficult carrying up a child, after walking in Disneyland all day ha ha... but hey it was worth it... there was an elevator too, but Bruce got stuck in the elevator the first day so we pretty much all opted out of that choice... |
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| ONE of the many pool & hot tub moments!!! CUTE Bruce & Kathy!!! | | |
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| We celebrated Syd's Birthday Sunday night... her birthday was MONDAY... |
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| Some shots of the "boys" jumping off the rocks into the pool!!! |
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| Opening Presents!!! |
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| DISNEYLAND!!!! MONDAY was our first day to the "happiest place on earth"!!! OOOOH How I love it here!!!! It was a little crowded, but the weather was PERFECT this day and beings that it's not our first time here we KNOW how to work the crowd so it was a breeze!!! | | | |
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| Max and I showing our "excited face" |
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| Walking in... |
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| I can NOT go into Disneyland without taking a picture of this sign!! It is sooo Magical!!! |
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| Max - Our CRAZY driver in Indian Jones!!! I LOVE this ride!! |
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| all {but two} of the grand kids... stopped for a lunch break! |
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| My beautiful baby girl! Just being a good girl and going along with whatever was going on!!! |
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| Reese's FIRST DISNEYLAND RIDE EVER!! Peter Pan!!!! ( I only got half my face in the shot.. ha ha oh well) moment still captured!!! |
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| Sydney wearing her "birthday crown" |
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| Bron getting familiar with the park... |
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| Star Wars - Jedi Training |
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| Parker and Carter both got picked to be a part of the Jedi Training!!! We got there fairly early to get a front row seat in hopes that they would get picked... and two out of the four did!!! It was sooo exciting to watch them go up and battle the 'dark side'!!!! They both did awesome, it was soo much fun watching them!!! And they were sooo excited!!! |
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| well Max was not excited he was a little upset he didn't get picked... but as you can see he got over it... it helped that Darth Mall pointed right at him, making him "part of the show"... |
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| SO CUTE!!! They were great! I highly recommend this show if you have boys, {and go to Disneyland} |
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One MORNING when we were getting ready to go, we decided to snap a pic of these hilarious garbage cans they had at the house {and throughout the neighborhood} either Kara has grown 3 feet taller or the garbage man is a midget.... which one could it be???
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| California Adventure!!!! |
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| we stopped to watch ONE of the parades!!!! It was pretty cute, the kids really liked it!! |
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| CUTE REESE being such a GOOD BABY the whole time!!! |
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| .... and cute BOONE!!!! Just look at that face!!!! |
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| The kids getting WET!!!! |
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| Ride'n some sweet "kiddie rides" |
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| CUTE SYD showing off how old she is NOW!!!! |
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| Carter, Owen, and Boone! |
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| BEACH DAY!!!!! We had lots of fun "boogey boarding" this day!!! This was our better beach day... weather was pretty ok, but COLD when you got wet, |
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| Reese taken a little snooze in the playpen at the Beach! |
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| Some of the crew off looking at the three arches!!! This particular beach area is called 3 arch bay, due to the 3 arches in the cliff side... very pretty place, that we had pretty much all to ourselves, part of where we stayed, came along with it, access to a private beach! It was a great little spot! |
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| Max playen in the sand... |
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| Matt & Jess play'n |
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| Syd, Park, and Carter enjoyed being chased by the waves... {until 5 minutes later when one came and knocked Syd and Park over} they didn't enjoy that... |
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| Matt comen in from catch'n some waves and cute prego BROOKE!! |
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| Reese and I chill'n... her little tongue is so cute! ha ha funny little face! |
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| Another day we had some time to spare so we went walking around the bay areas... |
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| We came across this pretty scenic spot and snapped a family pic... |
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| We checked out the marina, there was some pretty NICE boats tucked away in their 'slips'... Brad liked "tuffy" and I liked this OLD simple little boat!! {below} |
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| Parker and kara were twinners one morning... so we took a picture ha ha... {twiiinners!!!} [spirit fingers] |
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| Brad & Max riding ? something? ha ha ........anther day at DISNEYLAND!!! |
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| Bron and Matt - Matterhorn! |
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| "finding Nemo" Could do without this ride!! |
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| TOON TOWN!! |
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| now thats funny! |
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| Three CUTE BOYS, waiting for Thunder Mountain Railroad Riders... |
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| ONE WORD: Hilarious!!!! |
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| WE LOVE going to see the Golden Horseshoe show!!! |
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| OMG!!! My cute GIRL!!! I could NOT walk away without getting her some PINK 'mini' ears!!! |
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| Another FIRST for Reese!! SWIMMING!!! This was her FIRST time in the water!!! yay!!! She loved it!! It was the perfect chance to take her!! It was really warm!! |
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| MORE Pool FUN!!!! |
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| This was FRIDAY, we went swimming then stopped at Seal Beach, walked the pier, did some shopping and then went to Medieval Times for DINNER!!!!!!! This place is sooooo much fun and was sooo worth it, because the KIDS absolutely LOVED IT!!! Parker was yelling and cheering so LOUD for our knight to WIN!!! He did a good job, cause our knight did WIN!!!! If you've never eaten here, you should, you get put into groups and your section cheers for your 'knight' blue, knight, red knight, etc... we had the black & white night, and he was awesome and WON and Saved the DAY!! Parker sat by Carter and in the middle of the show leaned over and said "this is the best dinner I've ever had" so cute!! |
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| as you can see you all wear crowns and eat with your hands... and cheer while your knight fights other nights, jousts', and participates in a "tournament"... it's great!! |
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| our Final BEACH DAY and oooh Kara building a san caselll |
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| all these little black spots are surfers... It was crazy to see how many there were try'n to catch a wave!! It was entertaining to watch them all! |
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| {sister picture} |
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| Group photo! and our awesome sand castle!!! |
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| Well that's it that's all... well its actually NOT all the pictures I took, but Its enough don't ya think!! We had such a fun time! It is one of my most favorite things to do in the whole wide world and I'm grateful for such a fun family to do it with!!! GOOD TIMES were had by all!!! Until next time California!!! |
