California Part 1

 The kids and I joined my ever brave parents for a REALLY long drive to California for My Grandmothers Funeral We drove through Twin falls on our way there and stayed with one of my dear friends to break up the trip we made it in two 9 hour days there, we had adjoining rooms with my parents which was SO nice James was my sleeping buddy, you can see above why I might not love being his sleeping buddy he moves a lot in his sleep, but he does better with me next to him then not so it was for the best. The kids really did so well for an unplanned trip I couldn't have asked them to be better behaved especially with how hard we were pushing them and the nature of the visit. It is hard for kids to have so much asked of them but my three did awesome!

 The girls to addy's dismay did not sleep together, dryn was in her crib and addy had a bed to herself. Addy just adores dryn

 This was our view there was a park for the kids to play at, the water to walk around and a pool to swim in. It was so perfect and my cousin did a great job swinging us a fabulous deal.

 The kids ready for the funeral. It was actually a viewing and then a short graveside service. The service was small and perfect given the circumstances. It was nice to see my cousins and my Aunt, as well as My grandmothers Husband. He has Alzheimer's so he didn't so much recognize us, but it was still good to see him.  We clearly need to work on our Lady like behaviors, HAHA

 Even Dryn was GREAT for the trip, Only once did she scream and it was really my bad, I decided to keep going in the middle of nowhere nevada, we should have stopped, but they were all sleeping so I kept going 30 min later they were all crying and we were committed there wasn't a stop for 2 hours, Ehh you drive you learn,...

 The kids loved going to the park and swimming in the pool and that it was so beautiful weather wise while we were there, it snowed when we got home, we so enjoyed the warm weather even if the pool wasn't heated the kids couldn't get enough of it. We crammed a lot into our week long trip, but we tried to make sure they had plenty of time to play and enjoy it a little too. My Mom and Dad were great at keeping up with us and our 3 and 5 year old needs.