Our Awesome California Trip! - 2nd Day at California Adventure

This was mine and Jared's (and of course the kids') first time seeing California Adventure. Athena and Heidi are the crazy ones as always -- and love all the crazy rides... They actually got Jared to do the Tower of Terror with them, though!

Our Awesome California Trip! - Our Birthday

Athena and I celebrated our 27th birthday while on the trip (one of the reasons we got some good deals on our Disneyland tickets!) Didn't have a cake, of course, so we stuffed 27 jumbo candles into our favorite treats! :) It was fun...

(So I'm attempting to use pictures that I have not re-sized to see if then it will be possible to click on them -- if it works, I'll do that from now on, but sorry, I'm not going to go back and fix all my earlier posts... Didn't realize the size of the picture made a difference in being able to click on them)...

Our Awesome California Trip! - 1st Day at Disneyland

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Brielle got to dance with Alice in Wonderland that first day! It was cute -- she was so excited!

Our Awesome California Trip! - The Beach

Well, long story short, we ended up going on a fun family vacation the first week in February to California!! (The beach & Disneyland!) We've been planning that as some future event, and then found out about some deals & we're able to go with my Mom and sisters. We weren't sure how it was going to go with the kids all still being so young, but it ended up going SO well! We were so excited at how much fun the kids had! We made some wonderful memories...

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The first day we let the kids see the ocean for the first time ever! It was a perfect afternoon -- the weather was perfect and there was no one there that day. We hadn't planned on getting in the water because we figured it would be too cold, but everyone ended up wading a bit in their clothes!