Halloween

We had a great Halloween this year! Much better than last year, no swine flu this year! We had such a blast at Nate and Camie's Halloween party, and loved all of the costumes! I wish I would have taken pictures of everyone, they were all hilarious!

Here we are as Pauly D and Snooki. It was so much fun to dress up as these guys!
Brad as Pauly D.

Me as Snooki.

Here is the cake I made for Halloween. I thought it turned out pretty good for my first fondant cake and I learned alot!

By the time Halloween finally came we had dressed up the girls 6 times between family, church and school parties! I was so ready to be done with it by the time Halloween came! And I love Halloween!

Here is Presley as a witch. She had a hard time picking what she wanted to be. She just knew she wanted this dress!

Grandma Terri painted their faces, they looked so cute and the girls loved it! I don't know what Presley's pose is here, she cracks me up!

Hallie as a cat. She knew what she wanted to be all year long! And she loved every second of it.

Hallie and her silly pose!

Lily as a pumpkin. She seemed so grown up this year! She loved Halloween!

The witch, pumkin and cat. So sweet!

Newport with my hunny!

A few weekends ago Brad had a conference in Newport, and I came along for a few days of R&R. It was awesome! We got to do some fun things and I got to read, shop, eat and sleep alot! I only took a few pictures, and here they are. Here we are at Newport Beach, the weather was great and so were the shops!
This is in front of our hotel, it was so nice! I wish I would have taken more pictures!

Hotel Atrium at night.
Brad wanted to show me how...tough he was.
Here we are at an Italian restaurant trying calamari- ewww!
We had to try the famous desserts at Balboa Island. We had such a great time! It was a very nice little get away! Thanks babe!

California Baby!

This September we were able to get most of my family together and go to California. We missed the Thiels so much, maybe next time!


Here is Lily just as we pulled out, we drove through the night and the girls did great! I really like the drive, and when the kids do good and sleep most of it, it's even better!

Hallie on the way out,

and Presley on the way out, they were so excited!

Our driver Brad, eating a treat.

Lily was asleep by Bountiful, we left pretty late for her and I didn't have any of them take naps. So she was out super fast!

Hallie lasted about 30 minutes longer than Lily, this girl loves her sleep.

Presley requires hardly any sleep, she lasted until about 1:45am. She couldn't get comfortable, and kept freaking out in her sleep. At one point, this is how she was sleeping. :)

We drove right to San Diego, ate breakfast, and hopped right on the train to Little Italy. The girls loved the train!!

Presley in Little Italy, she loves the camera! She kept saying "mom, take a picture of me here doing this".

Hallie and Lily eating their popsicles in Little Italy.

There was alot of walking in San Diego, good thing Lily had her Dad!

We ate at one of our favorite place in Old Town San Diego, it's such good Mexican food! Here are us girls doing some shopping after dinner.

I think every kid loves staying in hotels! Ours sure did! Here they are making up games in the room.

The next day we wen to Sea World, and went right to the dolphins to feed them. I LOVE THIS! The girls had a good time too! Here is Presley feeding a dolphin.

And Hallie, she didn't dare touch it, just feed it.

Here we are by the sharks.

Sweet Lily, she would get so tired! And she was so good, she would just fall asleep in her stroller, wake up when she was ready and be so happy the whole time.

This is how she ended up sleeping the day we were in Sea World.

Hallie holding a star fish. My girls loved this, but my camera died after this shot.

Presley getting ready Huntington Beach the next morning.

I forgot my camera on the beach, but here we are on the pier at Ruby's Diner. The kids had a blast at the beach, it was a bit cold and windy for me. All in all the first part of our trip was so much fun, and the next day we headed to Disneyland.....

The Happiest Place on Earth!

Well, if you know me at all, you know I LOVE Disneyland!!! So, needless to say, we had the best time ever! And I'm not ashamed to say I did shed a few tears when it was all over! I'm not the only one who loved it, my girls had the time of their lives, I think they have inherited my love for pretty much anything Disney.



This picture is way out of order, but I forgot to put it where it is supposed to be, and I'm not in the mood to move it. So, here we are meeting Tink and Terrance.


The girls waiting for us to get the tickets.

Right when we walked in we got to meet a few of our favorites. Our girls were excited to see any character! Here we are with Goofy.

And Mickey Mouse!

This was my favorite part, we saw Cinderella, she was on a back road, so there was no line, and nobody waiting. So she just sat and talked with my girls.

And then, Sleeping Beauty asked if she could join us! I was freaking out a bit!

It was the cutest thing, the girls loved it!

Then we were off to the Peter Pan ride. I love this ride, even though the rest of the world does too, and it always has a line. Of course Lily wanted to ride with Nene and Bompa.

Brad and Pres. Hallie was with me, so I couldn't get a picture of us.

Hallie and Chloe on Mr. Toad's wild ride.

Brad and Lily.

Presley was excited to "drive" on this ride.

Here we are on Dumbo. Hallie was on the other side with Aliya, Brad couldn't get a shot of them.

And off to the Tea Cups.

This trip was alot of fun because our girls could ride most of the big rides. Presley loves any and every ride. Hallie made a deal that she would try every ride once. Here we are on Thunder Mountain Railroad. Brad is hilarious!

Hallie and Brad. Hallie was so brave, she usually liked the ride after she tried it, but on some of the bigger ones she only rode them once. I was proud of her for trying, with no tears!

Here are Brad and Lily. She loved every ride that she was big enough to go on, and was so good about waiting while we went on the ones that she couldn't.

The fam with Winnie the Pooh,

and Tigger too!

Some of the kids waiting for the parade to start. Peyton, Hallie, Logan, Presley and Aliya.

After the parade, my little family rushed over to Alice in Wonderland ride before it closed and rode it. We rode this a few times, Hallie and Lily loved it! And we all fit in one car, so I loved it too!

Presley will often tell me to take her picture, she did this alot in Disneyland! Here she is in front of Alice in Wonderland/The Mad Hatter store.

The next day we went to California Adventures. Here are the three of us on the Tower of Terror, or as Presley calls it, "The Tower of Tera". I had to take a picture of our picture on the ride. I wish I had all of the other times we rode it too. Brad usually was doing something funny, on one he was asleep. This was Presley's very favorite ride, she rode it five times, and wanted to just keep doing it. She loves rides!! This was the only ride Hallie wouldn't try, she started to cry right when we saw it, I just couldn't make her go, plus there is no crying in the happiest place on earth! So, maybe she will want to try it next time we go.

Here we are in Bugs Land, waiting to see the 3D show. These glasses crack me up! My kids didn't love this, they don't like bugs flying at them for some reason!

Here is Lily on King Triton's Carousel.

And Hallie.

And Presley.

Hallie was the only one of the girls who wanted her picture taken with Mr. Incredible, funny girl!

We ate at El Pollo Loco- alot! We love it, and it is super fast and cheap! The girls loved the ice cream cones!

Me and my prince charming, waiting for "The World of Color" show to start.

The fam waiting for it to start. They do this show in California Adventures, in front of the big Mickey Farris Wheel (as you can see). We had to wait a bit, but it was SO cool, totally worth it!

And Lily loved it too! She tried to make it, but about half way through she feel asleep on my Dad.

Here is Hallie on the Buzz Lightyear ride the next day.

Brad, Presley and the top of Lily's head.

The girls REALLY wanted to dress up, so we packed in all of their dresses, changed them, met some more characters, took them off and rode more rides. A bit crazy I know, but they loved it and that is all that matters.

This is where Lily spent most of her time.

Here are the girls with Avedia (spelling?). The girls really wanted to meet Silvermist, but she wasn't there.

Snow White.

Tiana (sp?).

Belle.

Ariel.

Our little princess admiring themselves.

Next we went to Toon Town- and met Minnie!

Chillin in Mickey's house

Meeting Mickey, again.

The girls playing in Donald's boat.

Hallie, driving a car.

Presley working out.

This was also the day Halloweentime started!

Here we are in front of Sleeping Beauty's Castle.

Waiting for the Nemo ride to start, Hallie said "pinkies up darling" when I took this! So fuuny!

On our last day, after riding the Haunted Mansion- re-done in The Nightmere Before Christmas (I forgot to take pictures cause it was so dang crowded!) for Halloween time, we went over to Pirates Island to run around. Here is Hallie climbing up a tree.

Presley striking a pose.

Our family crossing one of the many bridges.

Here we are in that ball thing from Pirates of the Caribbean 2.

The girls just playing around.

Another one of Presley's posses- she should be a photographer when she grows up.

And another- Hallie gets a but crazy after a few of these.

My girls were not happy that the gold was fake, they kept trying to pick it up.

Walking around, who needs a stroller when you have Nene and Bompa! I wish I would have gotten pictures with the whole group, but it's hard to do with 24 people!

On the last night we watched Fantasmic and the fireworks, but we had to wait for such a long time for them to start. So Brad and the girls played simon says, alot!

After our last night. :( The girls were SO tired! They fell asleep before we even got to the hotel!

And this is how they all slept, with their favorite toys from Disneyland. SO SWEET!

We had such a fun time, I would do it again right now if I could! I love my family and it was so much fun to go with most of them on this trip! Now if I can only figure out a way to talk Brad into going every year!