Disneyland Trip

About a year ago, Josh's sister-in-law, Grayce (who has been taking care of the accounting for Josh's brothers' honey business), proposed that the bee business pay for all the owners' families to go to Disneyland. Josh hasn't been paid from the bee business is about 10 years, so a free trip sounded good to me. And Grayce's knowledge of accounting made it a good financial decision for the business. So on Sunday the 24th we started our journey. Josh and I haven't been on a legitimate vacation for AWHILE, so I was beyond excited. We decided that Disneyland with Cam was going to be a nightmare. So we asked my mom and sister to take turns taking care of him during the week. And my mom, very nervously agreed.

 Meili was pretty young the last time she flew, and Grant has never flown on an airplane before. Our flight was SUPER early in the morning, and I tried to prep them for all the standing around waiting they were going to have to do in the next week.

 This picture is actually on the flight home. On the flight there, our family somehow got separated. I was bummed that I didn't get to sit right by my kids and see their reaction to flying, but they were in heaven sitting by cousins. Grant and Brayden had Transformers galore in their row, and Meili got to sit by William watching a movie.

 We waited at the rental car place for WAY too long, got some breakfast, and then made a quick stop at the LA temple.

 Then we went to a Dodgers game. (Note: after seeing these pictures, I realized the importance of beauty sleep, and make-up. But that's part of the memory-walking around LA in my pajamas totally "au naturel.")

 The game started out so blasted hot. And our kids were so tired and hungry, and hot. Once the shade got to our seats-less than an hour into the game, it became a lot more pleasant-as did our kids.

 We let our kids run around the bases after the game, which was fun, but we didn't get any pictures because they were shuffling the crowds of people through so fast.

 

 

 

 

 Josh rented our family and Jared's family a 12-passenger van for the week. We made fun of him, and he wasn't quite sure how he felt about driving and parking it in LA traffic, but it came quite in handy when we packed 16 of us in on Friday for the Angels game. And the kids loved riding in their party van together.

If it were up to Grant, we'd trade our van in for a 12 passenger van TODAY.