New Port Beach

We were unable to go to the Beach on Sunday, July 4th because we got there so late. So we decided to go to Newport Beach on Thursday July 8th. It was overcast and very windy on the pier, but that didn't stop the kids from jumping in the water! They had so much fun and Triston talks about the beach all the time.

We stayed there for about 2 hours and washed up and started heading home.

It was such a long drive, that we decided to stop in Mesquite to get some needed sleep. We headed home the next morning. I wish that I could have afforded to fly, but at least we were able to go on a vacation this year.

Disneyland Day 3

We decide to go to both parks on the 3rd day and just ride what we wanted to ride. We walked into Disneyland and there were tons of characters, and of course we had to get pictures with Mickey Mouse. Triston loves Mickey Mouse, he wasn't shy at all. Shara was pretty excited to.

After getting pictures with Mickey, we decided to take the train around the park. While Triston was climbing up into the train he tripped and scrapped up his knee. He wasn't very excited to ride on the train.

After we rode the train around the park we decided to go to Fantacyland land. So we headed towards the castle. We were able to get some pictures, but they didn't turn out very well.

The first ride we rode on was none other than Dumbo. The kids had fun.

Then Shara and Katelyn went on the Tea cups while Trison and I watched and ate some popcorn.

We then went to the Story Book ride. I haven't been on this ride for years, I wasn't missing much. It was really short and the kids weren't excited.

We then headed back over to the Buzz Lightyear ride. We ate lunch and relaxed for a while then we decided to go on the space ship ride. Triston was excited at the beginning, but once the ride started he got scared. Then we decided to go see if Buzz Lightyear character was back. I was so excited to see Buzz, because Triston has been into him for a while. Unfortunately he was pretty shy when we first got up to him, but he warmed up really fast.

We then headed over to Pirates Lair. The kids had a blast climbing and getting dirty. Triston didn't want to leave. We then decided to head over to California adventures.

Of course we had to stop off and get a picture at the main entrance.

We decided to grab and ice cream and head over to the Pixar play parade. Unfortunately it hasn't changed much since last year.

We then had made reservations at Goofy's Kitchen for dinner, so we had to walk down to the Disneyland hotel. It was a far walk. The food was ok, but we were there for the characters. Triston had a blast he wasn't shy at all. Shara's face lit up when she saw the characters, it was so cute.

After dinner we went back to California Adventures and went on Toy Story Mania again. We also rode on King Triton's Merry-go-round. We stayed there until closing time. Fortunately it wasn't packed because the Water of Color show had technical difficulties, so it wasn't packed. We went on Toy Story Mania several times. I think that it was our favorite ride. We had so much fun.

Disneyland Day 2

Since the day before we stayed at Disneyland we decided to go to California Adventure. We first went to Muppet Vision, it was a cute 3D Muppet show. Triston seemed to like it, but I don't think that he has ever seen the Muppet's before. Next we decided to head over to Monsters Inc ride.

After Monsters Inc ride we walked out and found a few Disney characters; Mr Incredible and no other then Woody! Katie and I were so excited, but the kids were pretty shy.
We ate lunch then decided to go and watch the live Aladdin Musical spectacular show. We walked around the theater and waited in line, but Triston had another objective. There was a group of people that were eating McDonald, waiting for the show to start and Triston took it upon himself to make himself comfortable and sit down with them and help them eat their fries. He just started talking and sat down by them. They thought he was so cute that they made the biggest mistake, they offered him some French fries. He loves McDonald's fries! The at first gave him a couple and then they gave him a bag with them in it and Triston decided that they were his now. He stole a whole bag of French fries from them. They were really nice to let him do that. He was so happy after that. He was glowing! The show was awesome! The genie was so funny, they had a lot of special affects. Triston fell asleep at the beginning, I guess it better than him being noisy.
After the show we had a little incident with Katelyn's phone, so one we found it we decided to go ride some more rides. We went and snapped some photo's with Lightning McQueen and Mater.

We ended up going to the Redwood Creek Challange trail. The Kids had so much fun running and playing. We stayed there for a while, when we were leaving we saw Kenai and Koda from the Disney movie Brother Bear. Triston was a little afraid, but they were so cute.

After the challange trail we decided to head over to Bugs Life and splash in the water. Triston and Shara had so much fun.
The kids played in the water for a while then we decided to go on a few more rides. We headed back into Bugs Land and rode some of Flicks carnival rides. We rode every single ride and the kids thought that the lady bug ride was the funest.

After Bugs Life we had dinner and then decided to go over to Toy Story Mainia! It was a long ride, but it went pretty fast. We got our 3D glasses and were ready to play some arcades. Triston did pretty well for a 3 year old. Shara did even better. The only problem was that I didn't put Triston's restrain on tight enough and he kept banging his head every time the ride turned. Poor kid, but he still enjoyed himself. I think that this was my favoirte ride! Tristons first score was 8,900 points. He did Awesome!
After Toy Story Mainia I wasn't feeling good, so we just sat down and decided to wait for the Water of Color show. We waited for a while, but it was worth it. We were sitting on the back side of the show, but it was good enough for me. Triston didn't watch much of it, we wore him out. He passed out before the show started, but Shara liked it.
After the show we decied to head back to the hotel, but on our way out there was music and a dancing area at the front of California adventures. So the kids decided to have fun and dance a while. Triston was hilarious, I don't know if we could call it dancing, but he was having a blast. I was to tired, so Katelyn joined in and danced a little. They were having so much fun! We danced for a while then we heading back to the Hotel. We had a busy but fun day.

Disneyland 2010

Triston has been watching the Disney channel a lot lately and has been talking about Mickey Mouse, so I decided that he would have a fun time this year if we went back to Disneyland. We were fortunate to have a free 4 night stay at the Redlion, so I decided to use it. This is Triston's third time I going to Disneyland, I would love to make it a tradition, but I guess we will have to see.

July 5th 2010

For our 1st day we decided to go over and see Tinker Bell at Pixie Hollow, because Shara was with us. The line wasn't to long, but Pixie Hollow was pretty small. They only had 3 fairies; Tinkerbell, Terance and Fawn. Triston was a little scared of Tinkerbell, but we were able to get some cute pictures. After Pixie Hollow we decided to go to Buzz Lightyear ride. Triston loved it. He had so much fun shooting his gun. He didn't do to bad for a 3 year old. We then decided to test our driving skills at Auto Topia. Triston and Shara were excited to get their drivers license. Triston loves to drive, unfortunately he needs some practice steering, he almost popped out of the car five times because he couldn't drive straight. What a crazy driver!
We then waited in the longest line ever at Finding Nemo's submarine ride. Triston wasn't very patient, he ran ahead several times and I almost lost him. He finally did better after Aunt Kate gave him a Mickey Mouse sucker. Finally got on the submarine and saw Nemo and his friends, the kids had so much fun.
We were ready for lunch and there as a parade starting in an hour, so we choose some prime benches on the parade route. After Triston ate his sandwich I decided to buy him his favorite food "Kok corn." While we were waiting this friendly duck came over and eat popcorn right out of my fingers.

Triston didn't last long, he passed out before the Celebration street party started. But we had fun anyways. We saw a lot of characters in the street party, to bad Triston missed it.

After the Street Party we went over to the Winnie the Pooh ride. We ended up going into this shop after the ride and the kids saw these stripped treats so we bought them. Triston had a Tigger tail and Shara had the Cheshire cat tail. The tails were made of marshmallows covered in Carmel and colored chocolate. They were pretty sweet, so we were only able to eat about half of each tail.

We ended up stopping in this shop by Splash Mountain and Triston put on some Mickey ears and picked some out for me so I decided to buy him his first pair of Mickey ears. He was so cute. For Shara we bought her a princes crown, she looked so pretty. For Katelyn's souvenir she decided to get this hat, it looked really cute on her.

We ended up going in Tarzan's Tree house. It was a lot of work, so Triston and I only went up once and Katelyn and Shara went up again. After the tree house we decided to go watch the magic makers fireworks above the castle. Then we went straight over to Fantasmic in front of rivers of America. I saw Fantasmic last year, but Katelyn and Shara have never seen it. It was pretty cool. After the show we decided to call it a night and headed back to the hotel. We were exhausted but had a fun day.

Celebrating the 4th of July

So I decided at that last minute that I wanted to go to Disneyland. I ended up having almost a week off of work, and I decided June 30th to go. Luckily my sister Katelyn also had a vacation that didn't go through and was off that week too! It didn't take much time to convince her to go see Mickey Mouse. We headed off in the early morning of July 4th. It ended up taking about 12 hours with all the potty breaks and stops to stretch our legs, but we finally made it there about 5 pm. We went out to a yummy dinner at P.F Changs which was a big disaster. The kids were restless and wouldn't sit still. The cool part was that Triston and Shara were able to use chopsticks for the first time. I think that they did really well. We ended up walking the mall afterwards and then decided to go over to Disneyland park to watch the fireworks
We ended up watching the fireworks outside the park, and boy was it crowded, but I ended up getting some great pictures. The cool thing was that they had a special 4th of July weekend firework show, so it was different than the regular program. We had fun! We ended up going back to the hotel and crashing! We were exhausted.

Triston's First 4th of July Parade

I finally had some time off of work and didn't feel sick, so I decided to take Triston to his first parade. He had fun! We meet my brother Alex and Amie and some of her family at the parade. It was really crowded were we were sitting, but we had fun! We ended up squeezing our way into the front to actually see the parade and to grab some candy! The only thing that sucked was that there was water in the gutter behind us and Triston had more fun throwing the candy in the water rather than eating it. We were also excited to see Grandpa (my Dad) marching with the Post office Band again! Triston got so excited when he saw him!

The excitement didn't last long! Triston was upset because I wouldn't let him throw anymore candy in the water and get people wet, so I let my nephews Daxon and Gavin have our blanket and Triston was so upset! He didn't stop crying until I traded the blankets. We didn't last much longer after that incident. We decided to go back home. On our way home we stopped off and got snow cones! They were yummy!

Triston so sad!

Our New Addition!

We have been waiting a while, but we are officially pregnant! We are so excited for this new little one to join our family. I think the most excited is Triston. He talks about the baby everyday. I only wish that the nausea and vomiting will finally calm down.

So I took Triston to my first ultrasound, he did pretty good, but when he saw the baby on the screen he looked over at me and said "Mom you ate the Baby!" It was so funny! I just laughed and agreed with him. He has such an imagination.

Here is our baby's first picture! It is only 11 weeks gestation.

I think that it is pretty amazing that you can actually recognize it as a baby.

Only 29 weeks to go!

Baby Dent