What was he thinking?

Sometimes I wish I could get into my kids' little heads and find out what the heck they were thinking. Yesterday I had one of those moments. Yesterday morning it was a little rainy and cold so I had the boys wear jeans to school. I just bought them new jeans for the school year since they outgrew all their old ones. So we picked up Trevon from the bus stop yesterday and he was wearing shorts. I looked a little closer and they were cut off shorts. That kid had cut the legs of his brand new Levi brand jeans off!! I was furious! I could not believe he did that! Did he think I wouldn't care? Did he think I wouldn't notice? I just don't understand what was going through his mind that made him do it. When I asked him why he said he got hot. I told him I hope he doesn't get too cold wearing those in the winter because I am not buying him anymore. So his punishment is he can't watch TV for a week and he has to read to Jackson 20 minutes each night. I just can't believe he cut the legs off of his jeans! This is definitely a story we will be telling his kids one day!

Las Vegas

We spent the last day in Vegas before driving the rest of the way home. We took the kids to see the lions at the MGM Grand, and the M&M store, and to the water show at the Belagio. Overall it was pretty fun, but the strip on a Saturday night is not a place for kids that is for sure. Like Jenn, we just tried to keep the kids distracted by looking at the huge hotels and not at the ground littered with naughty pictures.
The trainers were inside with the lions feeding them. They would throw meat up against the glass so the spectators could watch them eat it.


The trainer waved at Taylor and Katie and threw a piece of meat right in front of us. There is glass, but I didn't zoom on this picture, we were actually that close!
The rest of the pictures are at the M&M store. It was kinda crowded but the kids had fun looking around and watching the 3D movie.

Taylor found a castle!

Crazy boys!

Jedi Training

Last Day at Disney

On our last day at Disney we rode all of our favorite rides at both parks. We started at Disneyland with our early entry pass, then went to California Adventure til they closed and then went back to Disneyland. It was pretty exhausting, but so much fun. I can't wait to go back.

Jackson and Tanner were chosen out of the audience to participate in Jedi training.

This was definitely the highlight of their day.



Jackson and Taylor having fun spinning on the ladybugs with Grandma Becky.
Brian about to take off on California Screamin. We had an extra fast pass, so he rode by himself.
Here is Taylor in her first pair of Minnie ears before she lost them.
And here is Taylor in the new pair of ears that we bought her after loosing the first pair.
At the end of the last day we tried to get some pictures of the kids all together. Poor Katie was exhausted and crashed in the stroller. Above is the normal picture.
Here is the silly picture.
Our little family.
The whole crowd minus the grandparents who where taking the pictures. Taylor, like Katie, was also getting very tired. Little miss grumpy!

Brian thought it would be funny, when we were having our picture taken with Jenn and Jordan, to pretend like he was going to kiss her. So here he is totally taking Jenn off guard.
It was pretty funny! We laughed for a long time about it. And just to clarify, Brian told Jordan ahead of time what he was planning, and he didn't actually kiss her, he put is hand over her mouth. There is never a dull moment with those two.
Here is finally a normal picture.
These next several picture were while we were waiting for the bus.


Cute little Katie fast asleep.
The kids were jumping off the bench and I would try to take the picture mid air. Pretty funny huh?
Another jumping picture.
Just Jackson jumping. (tongue twister)
I don't remember what she was pouting about, but what a face!!
Here is Jackson making us laugh at dinner at in and out burger.

Huntington Beach

After two days at Disney we decided to take a break from the parks and head to the beach. That was one of my favorite days of the vacation. This is only the second time my kids had ever been to the ocean. We had a few boogie boards and lot of sand toys to play with. I wish we could have stayed one more day and gone back to the beach it was that much fun. At first I wasn't going to get into the water because once you get wet the sand sticks EVERYWHERE! But Brian and Jordan talked Jenn and I into it, and I am so glad they did. Jenn and I had a blast catching and trying to catch waves on the boogie boards. I think we probably brought home two pounds of sand, but it was totally worth it!

Katie was the first to venture into the water. I just love this picture.

Jackson and Trevon touching the waves for the first time.
Tanner coming to join the other two boys.
Brian and Jordan have been threatening for weeks that they were going to wear speedos to the beach. I never really believed they would actually do it. I was right about Brian (although he still claims he would have done it if he could have found a speedo in his size) but Jordan totally followed through with his threat. We were all standing watching the kids play in the water when all of a sudden from behind us we heard some whooping and hollering. Then all of a sudden Jordan came running past and into the water in nothing but a speedo. I still can't beleive he actually did it. I laughed so hard! We had several laughing moments throughout the trip because of Brian and Jordan. They themselves are quite the entertainment.
Nice pose. I think this one will be blown up to poster size and used as blackmail someday.
Hiding behind the boogie board.


Taylor liked the water, but I think she liked playing in the sand even more.


Surfs up!





Like I said, sand EVERYWHERE!!
Trevon and Madison got pretty good at the boogie boards, especially Madison. She caught an awesome wave on her very first try. This is another photo for the wedding video! ha ha

Jackson and Tanner were pretty proud of their sand village.



MORE SAND!!

They are pretending to be dead. I love Tanner's tongue sticking out of his mouth.
Brian and Jordan (with his swim trunks on) out to catch some waves.