For the past few months, we have been planning a family reunion in California with Lainey's parents, and most siblings. We decided to surprise the girls mostly because it would be fun and partly because we knew that if we told them, there would be very little sleep at night until the event actually took place. Curly and Lou knew we were preparing for a trip, which assumed was our summer visit to Utah and Idaho, but they were surprised when Fisher came home from work on a Wednesday and said, "Let's hop in the van and go on a trip!" They spent the first 15 minutes excitedly discussing where we were going and then fell sound asleep. At the hotel we had a connecting room to my brother's family, so in the morning, Fisher told Curly to knock on the door and see who was there.
After the girls discovered their cousins, they began to chat excitedly and a few minutes later, Curly came to me and said, "Mom, Lettie's going to Disneyland today, Can we go too?" She was shocked and excited when I said, "Sure, that sounds fun!"
We had been in the park for about an hour when the cousins looked up and saw Grandpa, Grandma and Aunt JG approaching! Squeals of excitement and delight!
We enjoyed a day together and were able to go on almost all the rides on our list, watch the parade, and see Fantasmic. We were all exhausted and crashed in bed early.
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| Baby girls getting reacquainted |
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| K-Rae and Baby - both lookin' cute |
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| Grandma arrives! |
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| Curly, Lettie, Gracie, and Lou in Goofy's car |
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| Baby loved Minnie's nose... I hope she was the first baby to try and eat it, but I doubt it |
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| JG, Lainey, and K-Rae on Minnie's couch. We have the same picture plus Paisley from Disney World 10 years ago. |
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| The crew on Goofy's boat |
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| Waiting for the Dumbo ride |
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| T-man with the almost lost little girls on Small World |
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| Grandpa can sleep anywhere! |
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| JG soaked on Splash Mountain |
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| Monkey's on Casey's circus train |
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| We love Space Mountain! |
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| Lettie loved Toon Town and we spent our evening free time exploring there. |
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| Sardines squashed in for Fantasmic |
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| Worn out! |
Friday morning we headed to San Diego. We had a picnic lunch at the beach and played on the beach and in the very cold waves. We headed into old town San Diego to the Mormon Battalion Center. It is newly remodeled and a very cool experience. The adults and the kids all enjoyed it. We walked a few blocks from the center to a quaint plaza with a Mexican Restaurant and little shops. After dinner, we headed to the Davies (old family friends) to stay for a couple nights.
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| Beautiful San Diego Temple |
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| T-man, Lettie, JG, Lou, and Kendra getting sandy! |
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| Bathing beauties - Curly and Lettie |
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| The girls dressed up as soldiers and a laundress |
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| Panning for gold. Lainey's cousin-once-removed Elder Woodbury handing Curly a nougat |
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| Dancing to the live music while waiting for a dinner table |
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| Grandpa got to sit at the girl table. "Girl trapped!" |
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| Ready for ice cream at the Davies |
On Saturday we had a slower morning and then headed to Sea World. In the evening a few people braved the cool pool.
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| The girls loved "practicing" in the Davies' music room |
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| Ancient Shark Jaws at Sea World |
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| Mesmerized by the show... and the heat! |
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| Why is it that kids could care less about how cold the water is? |
On Sunday we packed up and went to church before all parting our separate ways. T-man and his family to northern Cali, my dad and JG home to Utah and Idaho, and our family plus my mom and K-Rae back to Arizona. It was a wonderful trip full of surprises that we will remember for a long time!
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| A goodbye Squg |
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Know that is what I call a good time.
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