Diadora 8 Months

While we were on our trip, Little Miss Dia turned 8 months! Holy cow it's going so fast! She is getting so hard to take pictures of. She is learning to scoot and move around so she doesn't sit still. I don't know what it is about the blanket. She won't stay on it!

Won't sit down.

Won't look at the camera.

Wants to crawl away.

Finally a couple of good ones.

 I thought I would throw in a couple of 'behind the scenes' shots.

Crawling away.

Taking a break. Seriously?

Addie taking a picture of her.

This kid always has to have his turn to get in the picture.

California Trip- Day 6/7 (Dustin's house, beach and Temple)

Sunday morning we packed up and checked out of our hotel. We met up with everyone (my whole family and Maygen's parents) and we headed out to breakfast. I don't remember what the place was called but they had every kind of waffle you could imagine! I decided to splurge and order something so ridiculously unhealthy, but so good! It had apples, cinnamon, whipped cream and cinnamon ice cream! Yum.

The plan was to drive down to my brother's house (an hour and a half away) and hang out there for a little while. Thankfully the kids were feeling a bit better and no one threw up in the car! Johnny was so excited to see Uncle Dustin and show him his hat. He would put it on with the bill facing to the front, side and back and ask us how we liked it best and how would Dustin like it! I told him it was pretty cute to the side.

Bailee. Addie. Johnny. Rylee. Dustin.

I think in a effort to keep the kids somewhat under control Dustin pulled out a game of Candy Land. My kids had never played so he had to explain it to them. I don't think they quite got it but they had fun anyway! We ate pizza and hung out. Addie had been complaining that her ear really hurt. She was really trying to be tough but by about 8pm she was crying from the pain. We decided to take her to the Urgent Care. If it was an ear infection I didn't want to take her on the airplane untreated! I'm pretty sure our insurance doesn't cover us out of state so we are still waiting to see the bill for that! Turns out she didn't have an ear infection just some congestion.

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The next morning we packed up our stuff again (this was the third hotel we stayed in!) and met up with my parents to head to the beach! Even though it was too cold to go in the water, the kids loved just putting their feet in! By the end their pants were soaking wet! We had to stop at the car to change them then we headed down the pier to eat lunch at Ruby's. We had some yummy burgers, fries and milkshake!

They would wait for the waves to come then run away as fast as they could!

It was a little breezy for little miss.

Grandma and Dia.

I'm pretty sure this was when their pants got wet.

There were these huge birds just chillin on the pier. They were really pretty but they also had signs next to them that warned not to get too close!

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After we said good bye to my parents we headed to LA. We still had some time before we had to be at the airport (our flight wasn't until 7:45!) so we stopped at the Los Angeles LDS Temple. It's the next largest temple after the one in Salt Lake City! They had a really nice visitor's center with coloring activities and movies for the kids.

This face is trouble.

After walking around for a few minutes, it was time to head to the airport!

The nice thing about traveling on a later flight is that they are not full. We got to spread out on both flights which makes it really nice with three little kids! By the time we got home, the kids were feeling better. We are glad we got to go the wedding and see family but we were glad to be back home!

California Trip- Day 4/5 (Dustin and Maygen's Wedding)

Friday morning we packed up to head up to Lake Arrowhead for my brother's wedding. The kids were so sick, we all just wanted to go home! The whole reason for this trip was to go to the wedding so I was a little excited that it was finally almost wedding day!

This little girl turned 8 months while we were there!

Sick child #1

Sick child #2

After we left the hotel, we got 5 minutes into our hour and a half drive and Johnny threw up in the car! I must have been too tired to cry at this point because I really did feel like loosing it! We stopped at a grocery store to stop up on towels, zip lock bags for the kids to hold and more pull ups (have I mentioned that this virus causes things to come out both ends? This is not good for a very lethargic, recently potty trained boy.). Daniel cleaned Johnny up and we got on the road again in our car that now smelled like vomit!

We made it most of the way up the mountain without chains but there were signs that said they were required because of the snow. Driving in the snow makes me so nervous since I did a 180 on the highway a year and half ago! We probably could have made it all the way (my sister did!) without stopping but we did, just to be safe. Gotta love a man that knows how to do things like this!

Friday night, as soon as we got there, we went to the rehearsal dinner. We didn't end up staying very long because the kids wanted to go to bed. While we were there, my brother announced that they are going to have a baby! More cousins!

This was the view from our hotel room Saturday morning!

Siblings! Me, Dustin, Nicole and Melanie.

The wedding ceremony was outside. It was soo cold! The area was pretty though, very woodsy with snow!

It was too bright for my little Washington family!

Nic and Blake. They need to just have a baby of their own already! :) (Just kidding Nicole!)

My dad and Maygen's mom.

My mom and brother.

Waiting for the ceremony to start.

Mel and her son Eric.

Bridesmaids. The 2 flower girls are Maygen's twin 6 year girls!

Maygen and her Dad.

We all went back to the hotel for pictures after the ceremony. The kids were spent after that and Daniel stayed in the room with them for the rest of the night. I went to the reception without them (I did have them box up Daniel's dinner so that he could at least have his steak!). Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures there because I had Dia and didn't think to take my camera!