Last California post.......I promise!

This is the beach in Oceanside California, by the condo we stayed in. We had so much fun running from the waves!

Savannah loved playing in the sand, and attempting to eat it too as you can see!Another day at the beach. In fact, this is right before we went back to the condo, right before Savannah started seizing.
Here is my cute mom with Em and Brett at Sea World! I cannot thank my parents enough for coming and helping with the kids while I was in the hospital with Savannah.

This is the day we headed back up the coast and back to the airport. Savannah was released the night before from the hospital and I think this picture speaks volumes. Mike and I couldn't stop hugging and kissing our little girl. We are so grateful that she was able to mend and that we have had no scary incidences since. Here is Mike blowing raspberries on her neck, trying to get a laugh. She was still pretty weak at this time.

Beautiful Newport Beach. It was amazing, life is amazing!

A swing set on the beach, tons of sand and the ocean just right there! Emily just kept telling me how happy she was, life cannot get any better! I have to share one thing. As we were leaving our condo, Emily was sitting next to Savannah in the car. She hadn't been able to see much of her since Savannah had been released from the hospital. I looked back and saw that Em had her hand on Savannah's cheek. Emily was smiling at her and tears were running down her cheeks. When I asked her what was wrong she just said, "I am so happy to have my baby sister". Of course, both Mike and I had tears in our eyes.

I love my family and my sweet kids, what more can I say?

Happy Birthday Brett!

Brett turned 4 on May 16th! He is really into Spiderman this year so we had a family party with a spiderman cake! Brett thought it was so cool! Mike made a banana cake with cream cheese frosting and then decorated it. The Web is made out of black shoestring licorice! Brett loved the cake! He kept standing by it and doing his spiderman web slinging pose!On Saturday we had his friend Birthday party, of course it was Spiderman themed! Here he is showing he is 4 next to the giant 4 balloon Mike bought him!

Mike had fun decorating the back yard with streamers and balloons, the kids had fun helping. It turned out really awesome!

We played a lot of fun games, but one of the big hits was "stick your spider to the web" instead of pin the tail on the donkey. I made the spiders and Mike made the web!

We surprised Brett with a spiderman pinata! He was so excited and it was the hit of the party!


I don't know who had more fun, the boys hitting the pinata or Mike trying to keep it away from them!

It was such a fun party, Brett had a great time! Happy Birthday buddy! We love you so much and are so lucky to have you in our family, can't believe you are already 4!

California Trip - Disneyland!

We spent three days in Disneyland, it was so much fun! Here is a small sample of our 3 days, we took a ton of pics!Our first morning in Disneyland we went to a character breakfast. It was so much fun, we saw so many of our favorite characters! Emily obviously was the most excited to meet Minnie Mouse and Brett couldn't believe it when he saw Captain Hook! He loves Captain Hook (he was even him for Halloween) They did their "Arrrr Maties" and raised their "hooks" together!

We let the kids each pick out one toy on our last day. I laughed and took a pic when Mike held up Mickey!

California Adventure was a lot of fun too!

I especially loved the Bugs Life area, it was so creative! The kids really liked all of the rides, and Savannah was able to ride almost everything!

Here we are on the caterpillar ride. It went by giant watermelons and animal crackers, you could even smell each thing as you went by!

There have been a few changes since I went to Disneyland, the Swiss Family Robinson Tree House is now the Tarzan Tree House. It was neat to get a good view of Disneyland from the top.

Our families favorite ride of all was Pirates of the Caribbean! You can imagine with a little boy who loves pirates, he was pretty impressed! We went on it like 5 times during the 3 days we were there. Each time he would get off singing, "Yo ho, Yo ho, a pirates life for me!" It was fun to see Captain Jack Sparrow throughout the ride.


Emily and Brett right after the pirates ride!


Savannah's favorite ride was "It's a small world" She would just look around smile, laugh and clap. Seeing her like it so much we went on 5 times also. We loved going the end of April, we were able to just walk right on some rides, and the longest ride we had to wait for was about 30 minutes!

Here we are in Toon Town!

Everyone had to try to remove the sword from the stone.

Look at Em's face! She put some serious effort into trying to removing it!

Brett tried for awhile too, and in many different positions.

We loved Disneyland and just wish it didn't go by so quickly! It was so much fun to see the kids faces light up, to experience the magic! We each received a balloon at the character breakfast. I told the kids we should let the balloons go by the entrance of the Disney castle and make a wish. Brett did right away, but Emily thought about it and then let it go. Later on we were talking at the beach and she asked me if I wanted to know her wish, I told her I did. She told me that she wished she could fly........don't you just love Disneyland magic?

Make sure to turn on your sound to hear some classic Disney songs! *Mike had fun arranging them*

California Trip - Universal Studios

We went to California on the 20th of April. We experienced everything, Universal Studios, Disneyland, the San Diego Zoo, Sea World and Newport Beach! I am going to split our trip into a few posts since I took a bazillion pics! Here is the first day. We flew to California on Jet Blue. Mike and I both love surprises and decided to not tell the kids about the flight, trip, anything! It was so fun to wake up that morning and head toward the airport. They were so excited to fly they didn't even care to ask about where we were going!

They loved watching the planes and couldn't wait until it was our turn to get on the plane!

Emily was excited, but was more interested in watching the TV screen on the chair in front of her.

At take off Brett couldn't stop screaming "Wow,!" He thought it was the most amazing thing to fly!

Here we are at the cute teeny tiny Longbeach airport. It was so small it kinda felt like we were in a different county!
Family pic by the Universal Studios globe. The kids were so excited when we got off the plane and told them we were going where they made movies!

When we first walked into the park, there was a moving statue! Brett was so fascinated! I felt bad for the guy, it was a record heat day in LA 101 degrees! It would be hard to be dressed in black, pretending to be a statue all day.

We thought Brett would love to stand next to the shark, since he is always pretending to be one! But he was scared, maybe he thought the shark, like the man would suddenly come to life! Finally he did with Mike.

Savannah loved seeing Curious George, she kept giggling and smiling up at him.

Dora the Explorer!

Shrek with the fam.


Mike posing with Apollo 13 crew.

I just had to put this pic up, lol!

We had such a fun day at Universal Studios! The studio tour was the best ride. The kids kept thinking it was real. It was so fun to see Brett jump and scream when Jaws jumped up at him, to see the flood and in the end an earthquake! During the earthquake in the subway station Emily just kept holding on to Brett saying, "It is ok, hold on to me Brett, hold on!" We had to laugh, she is always trying to watch out for him. Awesome day, it was just crazy to leave 50 degrees in Utah and come to a heat wave in California!