Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Disneyland Delight

Our day at Disney was a cool and overcast - PERFECT! (Since we totally missed out on pictures of Kathryn during of California Adventure day, I've made up for it in these posts:-))

The cousins:
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride:
King Arthur's Carousel:

It's a Small World
Kathryn was enthralled:
Andrew & Simon:
Anika & Nathaniel:
On Tom Sawyer's Island:
(Kathryn was crazy to get out of the stroller and crawl for awhile!)

Family Fun and Cousin Craziness


We had a great time visiting with family while we were away. Christine (Lloyd's sister) had us over for a day to visit and let the kids play together. (When we are together we have 6 kids - ages 9 mo, 11 mo, 2, 3, 4, 5 - yep, its an adventure!) Then we went out to P.F. Chang's to celebrate Papa's birthday. Great food, great fun!

Kathryn and Josephine hanging out:
Kathryn loved this ball popper:

Anika using chopsticks:
Andrew using chopsticks:-):The birthday boy!The grandkids help Papa blow out his candle:
Papa & Nene with their grandkids:Nene with her girls:
Nene with her boys:

A Perfect Day at the Beach

Early in our week away, we went to Laguna Beach to enjoy the sun, surf, & sand. Christine and her kids joined us -- they have everything to enjoy a day on the coast including a beach umbrella which is worth its weight in gold. The cousins had a wonderful time together jumping in the surf with Nene, playing in the sand, eating a picnic lunch (and LOTS of sand:-)). Kathryn was pretty much covered in sand. No sunburn = great beach outing.
SUN!
SAND!SURF!
FUN!

Monday, April 27, 2009

California Adventure

Well, we are back from an absolutely wonderful week away. We spent the week in So Cal with Lloyd's family. We had such a great week. We went to the beach when the weather was hot and to the theme parks when it was cool, so we are coming back without any sunburn:-) Our CF card from the beginning of the week is currently AWOL so I'm sharing some from our day at California Adventure at the end of the week. (It is 2fer time at Disney so we got into both parks for the price of one. There are lots of advantages to going in the "off" season.) You will notice that Kathryn doesn't appear in any of these pictures -- seeing as we had spent the WHOLE previous day at Disneyland, she was more than happy to spend the day at home with Nene.


Waiting (patiently?) for the Playhouse Disney show:
Mickey Mouse:
Picnic lunch in the theme park:

Aladdin's Muscial Spectacular (truly was spectacular!!!):
In "Beast's Library", we discovered that Anika is most like Cinderella and Drew is most like Hopper (from "Bug's Life"). We also got to go to Turtle Talk with Crush from "Finding Nemo". The kids enjoyed it, but Lloyd and I loved it. We were really amazed at the technology.
Very happy kiddos! Anika kept saying, "I'm having the time of my life!":



Thursday, April 16, 2009