Newport Beach

I'm super late on posting this, but a couple of weeks ago we went to Newport Beach, California for a week! It was so fun!  My family all got a beach house but since we had Paxton (who still doesn't sleep through the night) we decided it would be better for us to stay in a hotel so we didn't keep the whole house awake at night!  Our hotel turned out to be super nice and cozy, but we spent most of our time at the beach house with everybody.  Besides Disneyland day we went to the beach every day that we were there.  The weather was unusually cool (low 70s) and it was kind of windy, so you couldn't be in the shade, and it didn't motivate me to go in the water, but we still had a great time!  This is our 3rd year going, and we hope to keep the tradition! 

On the airplane

Macie had a long day of traveling!

Hanging out at Balboa

Tony is like one of the kids...helping build a sandcastle!

Mackensie & Sandy

Nancy & Mom

Love those chubby feet in the sand!

Halle

Paxton sportin' his fedora!

Sean burying Macie

Hanging out at the Pier

Macie was exhausted after a long day at the beach...one minute she was eating her ice cream, the next she was sound asleep!

Halle pulling Macie down their sand slide

Crew, Halle & Macie

The water was FREEZING!  I didn't even go in it until the last day we were there!

Me & Ryan

Ryan, Mackensie, Halle & Crew

Shapiros

Jason, Sandy, & Makenzie

The Duffys

Our family...mom was stuck on a rock so she was making a weird face in all the pictures!

Nancy, Mom & Sandy

Halle (poser!)

The last day we went to lunch at Ruby's Diner...there was a guy making the kids balloon animals.  We had no idea how good he would be!  Crew got a cool dinosaur and Macie & Halle got Ariel mermaids!  They were really cool!  Macie's made it all the way home but popped the next day.

Disneyland!!!

While we were in California we went to Disneyland & California Adventure.  The kids had so much fun, and so did the adults!  The girls had lunch with the princesses which was AWESOME!  It was kind of pricey, but the food was amazing and the girls LOVED being able to have lots of one-on-one time with the princesses...it saved us an hour of waiting in line to see them at the castle and only being able to see 3.  Macie was almost speechless when she saw Ariel (her favorite!).  Then Belle, Aurora (sleeping beauty), Snow White and Cinderella all took turns coming to talk to us at our table and got pictures and lots of hugs!  Cinderella was by far the sweetest...she hung around the longest and just kept talking, it was so cute!  It was worth every penny!

One of the last rides we went on was Pirates of the Carribean- Paxton didn't like it so much.  I didn't know at this age he could know to be scared, but he was.  He kept just burying his little face in my chest and then looking around then he'd do it again.  It was so sad!  He is kind of sensitive!

Anyway, it was kind of crowded but we managed to go on lots of rides and have a great time!

Waiting to get  into Disneyland!

Macie & Halle....Minnie Mouse had a line to see her so we just got one with her in the background!

The 3 of us on "Soarin' Over California"....very cool ride!  Macie loved it!

Macie & Ariel...I think Macie was still in shock at this point!  She LOVES Ariel!  She was also a little disappointed that Ariel didn't actually sit at our table and eat with us!  When I told her we were having lunch with the princesses she took it literally!  Oops!

Enjoying our lunch!  It was BEAUTIFUL weather!

Waving to Aurora!  The girls got to have a quick lesson on how to bow, wave, and do a little dance!

Halle, Macie & Allie hugging Cinderella!

Crew trying out some of our great desserts!  We got 2 trays of a variety of treats and got to try them all!

Waiting in line for Dumbo!

Small World...one of the kids' very favorite rides!

After a long day at Disneyland!