Nettys at the Temple
My family pics had just gotten cancelled so we took these at the temple!
Category: General
Wedding Day for Ryan and Renae!
We had a lazy morning playing with cousins and taking showers:
And then off to the Sacramento temple! The sealing was really nice. President Weldon Papa was the sealer. The newly weds were very cute and happy. I am excited for them! Here we all are waiting for them to come out of the temple:
Picture TIME:
More pics:
The new Ryan and Renae family!
Our Netty Family
And then straight to the reception! They did a ring ceremony and then dinner and chocolate fountain and dancing at the end!
It was a beautiful day! We cleaned the church and then stayed up packing and playing cause we had to leave the next morning.
Friday – Sacramento
We woke up and got donuts and drove North all day. LA gas prices with an empty tank!! I drove so that Ben could jump on a few work meetings. The kids crashed out and played video games. We ate Tbell for lunch and then we got to Grandma’s/The Lewis’s at about 5:00. We said hi to everyone and then headed to the church to meet Renae’s family and set up for the reception!
The boys carried Ryan off for a bachelors night!
The girls put kids to bed and played some Funny Heads Up –
Balboa Beach Thursday April 7
After 3 days of Disney we went to relax at the beach. We slept in and packed up and headed off to the coast. The cousins had a place at Balboa so we went there this time! We brought sub sandwiches and snacks and boogie boards!
And a few more shots. We really had a relaxing time. We tried to boogie board. Built sand castles. Took a nap. Flew a kite. Chill.
We were craving milk shakes so we said goodbye to cousins and headed to dinner and our hotel for the night. We ordered dinner and LARGE shakes to go. The SHAKES were HUGE! We were all too full to touch our burgers and fries! We checked into our Suite and went to the swimming pool and fell asleep watching TV.
Day 3 Disney and CA Adventure!
April 6, Wednesday – Day 3 – Park Hopper – FINAL ROUND
We raced to Rise of the Resistance and we killed it this time!! We were on the ride at 8:15am!!
And the getting on the other ride at 9am!
Off to find whatever rides had short early morning lines!!
Then we did some shopping – each kid was trying to choose their one thing to buy! Then we headed over to California Adventure! And went straight to Guardians of the Galaxy – yes, I sat out again!
4:00 Incredicoaster
Maters Junkyard – 4:20
Monsters Inc – 5:00
Then we met up with the cousins! and all “slept” on the incredicaoster:
Back to Goofy at 7:30 – where I got so mad that they let single riders on and messed up all of our cousin groups! and 9:00 Toy Story Mania!
Then back to do one more COASTER!!
And of course one more GUARDIANS – but I snuck over to Cars Land! 10:00pm
Goodbye California Adventure!
And we’ve got an hour and a half left at Disney! and Ben still needs to buy his helmet souvenir!
And that’s a wrap!! We love you Disney. See you in three years! Thanks for all the fun moments with our kids! and with extended family. We are exhausted but Happy 🙂
California Adventure!
April 5, Tuesday – California Adventure Park!
And we raced with EVERYONE else over to Cars Land!! It’s such a good ride. No fast pass unless you pay extra. We waited 40 minutes but the rest of the day it’s closer to 80 minutes.
And then the day unravels from there…
INCREDI-COASTER! We all went on it! First time for Packer, Rose, Ray, Millie and Tiago!! and everyone LOVED it!
and then we made our way around the “lake”. And we did Soarin over California at some point.
And then the long awaited and much anticipated GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY!
I was the only one that didn’t enjoy it! Tiago was holding on and shaking the whole time but he said he LOVED it and he went on it several more times! All of the kids and Ben were raving about it. I just felt claustrophobic and trapped and out of control. After that we met up with the cousins and did some of the smaller rides like Jelly Fish and Goofy… I don’t remember for sure but we ended up over at the IncrediCoaster again!
Then we waited in line for the new Spider Man. It was our longest wait of the day. A solid hour. But its a new ride and we wanted to do it together and it was a pretty cool web shooting “experience”! Then we met up to do Guardians with ALL of the cousins.
We were do for dinner or at least a snack so we got ice cream cones!
And then back to the Incredicoaster – 8:30pm
And then we finally did Toy Story Mania – 9:00pm. After that we only had an hour left so we did Goofys sky school and made our way out of the park.
We debated on going over to Disney for an hour and a half but we decided to call it a day and get another early start on Wednesday. We had such a fun day but we were wiped out!
Disney Day 1
April 4, Monday 7:00am – We got in line EARLY. This is the line to get in the line to get in the next line! This line does a bag check. Next line you need your ticket. And then you wait in line for the rope drop inside the park at 8:00am.
Here we go: We raced to Rise of the Resistance!! The new Star Wars land is so great. So realistic and fun and the rides were Amazing!
Millenium Falcon is the other new “attraction” – we ran right over there for our next ride:
The kids are so cute:
We got our picture professionally taken before leaving Star Wars and then we jumped in line for Big Thunder Mountain Railroad Coaster and then over to The Haunted Mansion and on the the Jungle Cruise. The cousins were on Jungle Cruise but they were s bit ahead of us and we missed catching up with them.
We all got in the same jeep for INDIANA JONES!! and we got Dole Whip! and then found the cousins!
Millie Really wanted to do the Rocket Ships that we kept walking right by…
PHOTO Opp in front of the castle!
And let the fun continue:
The Tea Cups!
And then back to SPACE MOUNTAIN. Everyone was loving this one!
What’s going on at Star Wars land?? Resistance was closed but we went on Millenium again!
And then back to the other side of the park cause we hadn’t been on Matterhorn yet!
and back across main street …
And that’s a wrap! We made the walk home with our tired feet and fell into our beds! 17 hours – 21ish Attractions!
Spring Break – Sunday April 3
Travel Day! We drove to Anaheim. It took all day. We listened to General Conference on the drive. And ate McDonalds and ordered Pizza once we got checked in. We stayed at the Anaheim Desert Inn which is right across from the entrance to Disneyland!
Hotel Life – Tiago made a little bed in the corner. Millie on the floor between the beds. Cali and Rose on one bed and Ben and I on one bed. Then Benji and Packer were on the hide-a-bed in the front part and Ray on the couch cushions by them. All Snuggly!
We went on the roof to watch the Disney fireworks and get ExCiTeD!!
April Fools Day
We all woke up to a stink bomb in the kids bathroom!! It stunk so bad all morning. And Ben played the worst nursery rhymes to wake the kids up. There were googly eyes all over the house and all of the kids found rubber duckies in their backpacks at school!
Family Life
The girls are still working out with LaNell!
Young Mens Mario Cart Tournament – Packer did not win 🙂
Cali had a choir concert at the Jr high!
District Battle of the Books for Rose!
Tiago’s Last basketball game and Ray and Cali’s first Soccer game of the season!
Girls Weekend with Angelee, Erica and LaNell!
A bunch of the kids had sore throats and a few of them stayed home for a day. And the kids got haircuts.
And Lambeau! He’s in teenager mode… he found the hole in the garbage can and was eating the garbage. And he will always look for Millie to leave her cereal bowl out on the table so he can finish it.
