California Fall Break

This week for Fall Break we decided to take the kids

to California with some friends.

I love this picture of the kids at Disneyland because

it totally captures Kenyon and Kenzie's

relationship! ;) All four of the kids played so well

with each other all week and had SO much fun!

Our friends the Chatwins went with us also... and as you

can see in this picture Ryan re-lives his teenage years

when he is around the Chatwin boys!

I'm not sure how they ALL fit into one teapot but lets

just say Ryan's 'age' caught up with him after this ride! ;)

You would think by sending the little kids with Kim they'd

have a slower ride... but she didn't disappoint! ;)

I could barley watch the teapots I was getting so sick!

Kenzie had ONE thing on her agenda that day...

to meet Tinkerbell!!

So after Britany, Maya, Kenzie and I waited an

hour in the sun we FINALLY met Tinkerbell.

Ryan and the kids riding Alice in Wonderland.

Don't mind Ryan's shirt the Chatwins gave it to

him to wear to Disneyland... and he did just that!

(it says I've always been a bit Goofy)

As you can see I'm not in any of the pictures,

Britany and I both being prego took it

easy and got stroller passes for the others to

get right on all the rides, saved seats for the

parades and night shows, and sat on

Main Street and ate corndogs while people

watching... A Disneyland MUST! :)

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Tuesday we were DEAD from doing

Disneyland from open to 10 (midnight for the dads)

so we just hung around all day Tuesday,

let the kids play outside, and ate Panera Bread

and Pat and Oscars for our meals!

(a Ca. must! :)

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Wednesday we drove down to Newport

for the afternoon. The kids had so much

fun playing in the sand while the dads

and Chatwin boys played in the water.

Muscle Man! :)

The guys then decided to dig a huge hole

for the kids to play in and a tunnel for

them to crawl under.

While digging we started seeing some

kind of rescue going on so Cameron ran down to

find out what was going on. Next thing we knew the

police came down to where we were to tell us to start

packing up they were looking for a body that

had gone under!

So while the police filled in our hole we packed up and

walked back to the boardwalk to watch the rescue.

After an hour of the swimmer going under they

found his body RIGHT where the guys were all

boogie boarding!! CRAZY! It was so surreal to

watch the rescue but even more so to watch

the girlfriend of the victim. So Sad. We then went

back to shower and pack up for a long drive home!

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Besides the beach tragedy we had such a FUN

trip with friends! Disneyland never disappoints...

Blake had SO much fun being able to ride ALL the

rides there. Indiana Jones was his favorite!

Kenzie was low key and didn't want to ride a lot of

the rides but had SO much fun seeing

Tinkerbell, watching the parades, and fireworks!

Her favorite ride was Small World and hasn't

stopped singing it yet! ;)