Disneyland- Seaworld- and Cousins

This is Edgar, with Miley and Mckenna

Aidan, Liam and Caden at Liams play

Mckennas favorite fairy is Faun, because
she loves animals too.

Visiting Mickey at his house. You can tell
how excited Coleman was. He wouldn't
stop covering his eys.

Caden- looking out at the docked
boats, near our hotel by seaworld.
I liked the name of the boat.

Coleman being carried by my sister Kristi into
Seaworld. He was fine once we got there, he just
didn't want it to be like Disneyland.

Our favorite- Shamu! Chad and Mckenna got
splased by Shamu 3 times on the 3rd row. They
were drenched and it was not the warmest day.

Kristi, Haliegh, and Miley

Mckenna with her new little
Shamu in a purse.

ALL the boys went on the river boat ride.
Even Coleman was okay with it.

Coleman, Haliegh and Liam waiting for the
dolphins to swim back by them.

Coleman, Jeff and Haliegh...waiting.

Mileys first real ride! Elmos Flying Fish!!

I'm telling this a little out of order, but oh well. To make a long story short, lets just say Disneyland wasn't the best place on earth for Coleman. He acted excited to go when we would talk about and show him stuff on the computer, but once we got there, I can't count the number of times he asked to go back home. Because of our sweet little boy we got the fast pass for all the rides and thankgoodness we did, he would have never made it waiting in line for hours for each ride. He did go on about all the rides he could, but during and after each ride, he seemed very stressed and wanted to go home. At about 4pm we were done with what we wanted and went out for dinner. I went back to the hotel with the boys and Miley and Chad took Mckenna back to Disneyland until 11pm. We told Caden to go with them, but he was just excited to stay at the hotel and play with his starwars ship he got after the star tours ride.

Everyone was very happy to get to my sisters house the next day and just play with cousins and relax. To say that my sister and her family are busy, is an understatement. They are very involved with this cool community theater and they do wonders for it!! It was a lot of fun to see Jeff in "Leading Ladies" and Liam was in "Treasure Island" the next day. Plus my sister does most of the costumes. And Jeff is not only in one play, but helping direct Treasure Island. We just sat back in awe of all they take on, but it looks a ton of fun and well worth it for them in the end.

I don't think I even talked to Caden the whole time we were there. He and his cousin Aiden were constantly playing something and kept them selves busy day after day. Mckenna had a great time with Haleigh. There is an age difference, but you would almost not even know it with how well they got along and Haleigh is so funny and mature for her age.

Miley was pretty obsessed with their HUGE dog Edger, who stayed in the backyard the whole time, but she wanted to see him at the door or she would say over and over again, "dog, dog, dog, dog, ..."

Coleman was as happy as ever just playing with all their starwars toys and watching Phineas and Ferb on the disney channel.

SeaWorld was probably the best for everyone since they were with their cousins and it was much more relaxed and less people. As you can see in a picture, Coleman was not happy as we were walking into Seaworld since he thought it was like Disneyland. What kid screams and cries going into Seaworld? But once we got in and he got a map, he was just fine. Now he loves to talk about the killer whales and dolphins.

Thank you Kristi and Jeff for having us, we had a lot of fun. Can't wait to see you in Denver soon!

California

Our flight into LA was smooth and on time. We get our luggage and go out to get on the bus to our car rental place. We wait outside for Chad for at least 30min. only for him to come out and tell us that we are at the wrong car rental place. ( I have to give Chad a little slack since he travels all the time and gets numerous car rentals at different places). Anyone could have mixed up Budget with Dollar car rental, they are very close in their meaning. I think I took the bulk of our pictures while waiting another 30+min. at the next rental car place. Coleman was content playing with his eve and wall-e toys in Mileys stoller, Caden as usual just goofed around and played with Miley, and Mckenna seemed as annoyed and impatient as a teenager.

FUN at Shantil and Nates

We flew into LA and went to my friends house, Shantil, who I haven't seen in 7 years. The best thing was going to their house and it felt like it had only been 7 days since I'd seen her. The kids had a blast from jumping on the tramp, climbing the steep rock hill in her backyard, playing with snails (yes, it't the girls playing with snails), and who knows what else they did when we weren't looking. Thanks so much Shantil and Nate for having us, it was a highlight of the trip!

Playing Catch Up...again.

Chad and I had the chance to go to Hawaii for a work thing he had. He only had to work a couple of hours for some of the days. We didn't do a whole lot but relax, hang out, and find the best food places to go to. It's funny how most of our vacation was centered around food. From the almond cookies at this Japanese restaurant, to the garlic shrimp in those run down huts with flies all over them.

We are not very good at taking pictures when it's just the two of us. Neither one of us wants to ask someone to take our picture and we don't like taking pictures by ourselves. But we did try to get a few. Like the close up? It's us taking a picture of ourselves!