Vacation Time!!

The entire family made a trip to Southern California last week. 

We went to see the Utes play San Diego and to go to Disneyland.

Kelli, Jeremy, Keith, MyKelle, Gage and I started our vacation on Friday afternoon,

 driving to Las Vegas. 

Cute Cambree, love that smile.

 MyKelle loves to pile pillows on Poppy and jump on them. Fun game??

 We went swimming on the roof. View was beautiful and view was amazing.

 MyKelle and Gage were fascinated by the palm trees. 

We decided they look like pineapples.

Sorry for the sideways picture - you know how it goes with blogger. 

New York, NewYork in the background. 

 We loved the M&M store, but not the pricey items to buy.

 La Jolla beach. Beautiful, waves, sand, sun, surf - gotta love it.

 Jeremy adores his little girl. 

 Apparently, Gage didn't run away from the wave fast enough.

 We took a tour on the USS Midway.

It was fascinatung. Got a little appreciation of what my father went through in WW2.

Here we are in the Brig.

 MyKelle and Gage loved to sit in the airplane cockpits and play with the controls.

 Gage was actually in his Heaven on the ship.

He was interested in every little part.

 On the very front of the flight deck.

 This is the USS Ronald Reagan. It came into port while we were there. 

Really cool to see. It had been out helping the 

Carnival cruise ship that had lost power at sea. 

 You can see the planes in the background. 

We were able to go inside of many of them.

Adam, Jess, and Carson joined us Monday afternoon. 

Back out to the beach.  So sunny and warm.

 Gorgeous sunset. 

Too bad my cheap camera doesn't show you how pretty it really was.

 Aww, isn't that cute?

 Gage and Carson in their football PJs.

 We went to Sea World. First time I've touched a stingray.

They are slimy. Gage loved it, MyKelle was having none of it.

 Waiting to see the sea lion show. 

Same tricks as 25 years ago, but a different story line.

Kids loved it.

 This was at the Shamu show. It was getting chilly.

 Gage, Carson, Cambree, and MyKelle in front of the Flamingos.

 Cool lookin"

 Feeding time.

Katie and Darin flew in Tuesday night.

 The beach again. This time the boys went boogie boarding and body surfing.

 Darin and Jeremy, hitting the waves.

Natalie, Travis, Addison, and Hailey flew in Wednesday night. Whew, we are all here now.

 Everyone gets in the act of climbing on Poppy, trying to get him to wake up.

 All my grandkiddos ready for Disneyland. They are all wearing their Disneyland shirts

 JoJo got them for Christmas. 

Disneyland was part of everyone's Christmas presents from us.

 With 3 babies and 3 young kids, we did a lot of trading off to ride the rides.

Poppy holding Cambree and Carson.

 MyKelle and Gage join to party, Carson is not too sure he likes the company.

 Disneyland was decorated for Christmas. 

Small World was a whole Christmas around the world theme. 

 Addi was just too pooped to party anymore. 

The kids have more pictures, can't wait to see them.

 Friday was back to the beach. It was cloudy and chilly on the beach, but that didn't keep 

Travis, Jeremy, and Kelli out of the waves. 

 The rest of us enjoyed some good beach time.

Katie and Cambree.

 MyKelle, Addi and Gage loved to play in the sand. 

 Pretty Jess

 Scruffy Adam and precious Carson

 Darin and Gage playing in the waves. Yep, Gage got wet again.

 This was breathtaking as the sun broke through the clouds.

 After perfect weather all week, Saturday, game day, rained all day.

 We got soaked just getting out of the cars at Old Town.

 Cambree likes her Daddy as much as he likes her.

 We have a favorite Mexican restaurant we go to in Old Town.

Family pictures of everyone.

 Across the street is the Mormon Battalian visitors center. 

Things have changed here since I came as a teenager.

I teach this so I was interested to go, but everyone liked it.

The church as gone high tech and has a cool presentation.

 Carson was so interested, he feel asleep on Daddy's back.

 Keith was chosen to dress as a battalion member.

Again, sorry about the sidewards picture.

 Here we sat on logs and boxes to simulate one of the camps along the way.

We went to the game and sat in the rain. 

We all spent $7 on rain ponchos and they were well worth it.

Fortunately we were under the overhang and didn't get too wet.

The miracle was that the Utes won the game.

There were reports of bad snowy weather in Utah, so we drove home right after the game through the night. After we got out of San Diego, we had no rain or snow at all. 

We arrived home safe to broken limbs all over our yard from the storm here.

We realize our blessings, not only in traveling but in being together and building memories.

Thanks kids for the fabulous week.

Can't wait for Oregon this summer!