Jenn and Josh's Wedding

On September 22nd, Jeremy's sister Jenn married Josh Jenks in the Logan Utah Temple! It was a WONDERFUL day!! The sealing was absolutely beautiful, the luncheon was fun, and the reception was a blast! Jenn lived with us for about 8 months, and we all just love love love her to death. It is so wonderful to see her so happy. We are so excited for her and Josh, they compliment each other so well and Josh is going to make a great addition to the in-law club.

There was just to many pictures to blog, so I decided to throw them into a slide show for those that would like to see!

California Dreamin' Day 1

3 weeks ago we got back from the most MAGICAL vacation ever! We went to Disneyland!!! We invited my parents to come along, and we are SO GLAD they came! We had so much fun together. Everything was so perfect! So So Perfect. I am posting 5 posts about it with TONS of pictures!! It was just that great! If you want to see all of it, you will have to click older posts at the bottom of the blog. I wish the pictures and the words could capture how amazing our trip was, but I did my best.

Tuesday September 13th, we arrived at the airport! You would have thought that was Disneyland! Seriously my kids were just so excited with everything they saw! They LOVED watching all the planes coming and going!

Finally we boarded the plan! Boston was a bit nervous, but both kids did AWESOME and loved the flight! (Jet blue is AWESOME, they have T.V.'s for every seat!)

Hadley with her special Wings!

Boston with his wings!

We arrived in Long Beach, picked up the rental van and what kind was it? A silver Dodge Caravan... just like we drive at home! Of course it would be! We went to the store and picked up some groceries, then checked into our hotel. We stayed at the Desert Inn and Suites. It was a just fine hotel, but the location was AMAZING! Seriously right across the street from the entrance! After we unloaded everything we headed out to Huntington Beach! It was SO FABULOUS!! I just LOVE the ocean!!

My cute parents!!

The Beach Babe

Our cute little families back side...

and the front too!

Jeremy and the kids had TONS of fun in the waves!!

My Dad is a fabulous sand castle builder, and considering the lack of tools he had, this was pretty amazing!! My kids loved it!

The sun started going down so we hurried and took a quick shower and headed over to the pier...

SO PRETTY!!!!!! (I spelled the Beach name wrong here... I'm to tired to change it!)

My awesome camera takes great sunset pictures! :)

There is nothing better then watching the sun melt into the ocean. So my favorite thing!

We went back to the hotel to change and headed to dinner at IHOP! The kids were pretty tired, but were so excited to sleep in there new Minnie and Mickey pajamas!! (The great thing about planning a trip for a year is you can watch for things on sale! I got these for super cheap at Old Navy!) They had no idea what fun was in store for them...

California Dreamin' Day 2

We woke up, got ready, ate breakfast, and went to the most MAGICAL place ever! DISNEYLAND!!!!

Everything is just so awesome! Even the signs are amazing.

Even the benches are cute!

We decided to head to California Adventure first!! Did I mention that this was Jeremy, Hadley, and Boston's first time, my first time with just family, and my parents first time in a LONG time!)

My first time at California Adventure was on a band trip with my sister Natalia. Natalia bought a little stuffed bear that looked just like this one. There were a lot of great memories of Natalia at Disneyland. She loved that place.

The first ride we did was the new Little Mermaid ride! It was so well done, and so cute!! It was a great one to start the kiddos off on!

Boston especially loved the Golden Zephyr's which he called the rockets ships.

We all LOVED Toy Story Mania! It is such a fun ride!! We went on it a couple of times!

The Green Army guys recruited Boston and Hadley for their show! So cute!

We didn't spend a lot of our time waiting in line for Characters, but we did see our friend Jessie! She was so cute with the kids!

Gotta love her!

I so can not wait for Cars land to open next year! It is going to be AMAZING! Just seeing McQueen and Mator gets me excited!

I love a bugs land. It was so perfect for the kiddos! They loved EVERYTHING in there!

Boston's favorite's were anything he felt like he was "Driving"

I love the smells on this ride! YUM!

We went and saw a Mickey Mouse Dance show! It was cute!

My Mom and Dad with the star!

How can you just not love Mickey!

We took turns on the bigger rides staying with the kids. The Parent Pass thing is so AWESOME!! I was glad I had purchased some cheap Disney toys from the dollar store to help entertain the kids, and also an I Spy book!

Random pictures from the day... my favorite being my Mom wearing Hadley's Minnie Ears!

We ate continental breakfasts, packed our lunches, and we splurged at dinner. We had so much fun at the Rainforest Cafe!! What a fun place especially for kids!

We enjoyed some dancing to live music in Downtown Disney!

Took a quick peak at the Lego store... So AWESOME!

Then headed to the World of Color show. UNBELIEVABLE. AMAZING. UNFORGETTABLE! Seriously the coolest show ever. Book your tickets now... Go see it!! So awesome.

The kids had a blast and were going non-stop all day. It's no wonder that both of them crashed on our walk back to the hotel...

It proved only a nap... they still needed bed time stories... and all would sleep well except for me! At about 2 in the morning I thought one of the kids jumped on the bed, I look over and they are both sound asleep... The whole room is swaying... Jeremy wakes up and says "It's an earthquake!" He rolls over and goes back to sleep. I FREAK OUT for at least an hour and then get a little more sleep! I call my parents in the morning "Did you feel that earthquake last night?" My Dad responds with something like this; "There was an earthquake?? Shoot, I wish I would have woken up. I'm sad I missed it." The news confirmed there was a 3.5 magnitude earthquake... I'm glad it wasn't any bigger. Scary enough for me.

California Dreamin' Day 3

Our first day in "real" Disneyland!!

We watched the Jedi Training Academy, and were sad Boston didn't get picked... but it was still fun to watch.

We loved the Nemo ride!! I was just amazed by everything... and how well done every detail is thought of.

Cruised around in Autopia

Enjoyed lots of snack breaks, and walking!

So many many great rides!

Boston LOVED the train!!

Me and the kids LOVED the tea cups!! (I made Boston and Hadley's shirts... total cost $4.00. Awesome!)

Jeremy took the kids to the hotel for a nap, and my parents and I cruised around Main Street! We saw Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln which was really cool, and we ran into this cute lady... MINNIE!! I was so bummed Hadley wasn't there, because every other time we saw her it was going to be a 40+ minute wait.

We just grabbed food in the park for dinner. Most of us had sourdough soup bowls which were amazing, and Boston had a giant hand dipped corn dog!

We then headed to Mickey's Soundsational Parade!! We all LOVE LOVE LOVED it! The music was so energizing, and it was so fun to see all the characters in their glory! Hadley especially loved the parade... and the parade loved her!!! She stood up and waved to each and every character... and in return she got SO MANY special waves, and winks, and kisses, and

a special one on one visit from Peter Pan!! He told her that he liked her bow! He gave Boston and Hadley 5's, and then hopped along his way. It was SO CUTE! I wish I could have got better pictures. Hadley is still talking about Peter Pan!

After we went on it's a small world and went to watch "The Magic, The Memories and You" on the It's a Small World Facade. NOT worth your time... we decided to bag that and make our way over to watch World of Color again!

On our way we saw these AMAZING Jack-o-Lanterns!

And Walt and Mickey! We left Disneyland to go over to California Adventure where the show was, but they weren't letting anybody in unless they had a Fast Pass for the show... so we tried to go back into Disneyland for some Ice Cream... but they wouldn't let us back in either. So we headed to Downtown Disney.

The kids had saved all the change Jeremy will bring home to them, and they were able to make a purchase with their money! Boston was in love with the Lego store, and picked a Lightening McQueen set, which he loves!

Hadley girl picked out this Minnie Mouse, and a tiny little grumpy doll... I tried EVERYTHING to convince her to buy something else in that HUGE Disney store. But she wouldn't have it. She wanted the "Mad Face Guy." You'll see grumpy posted later...
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After our shopping trip, we went to Cold Stone which was right by our hotel and enjoyed a YUMMY treat!