Vacation - Day 3 - Universal Studios

Today we spent the day at Universal Studios.

hanging out in front of the cars from 2 Fast 2 Furious

Chris loves this movie and enjoyed seeing the cars in person.

The kids enjoying the Universal characters.

These are our favorite pictures from the back lot tour. (these pictures don't do them justice)

This is the set from the How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

On the other side of the set is the famous Bates Motel.

This is the crash set from War of the Worlds. This is the house that Tom Cruise walked out of after a 747 crashed into it.

This is the cabin from the John Candy movie, The Great Outdoors.

The kids hanging out with Jaws.

This was taken in the shopping area just outside of Universal. It is just like it's own little city.

The Hard Rock Cafe at night. (We ate lunch here)

Chris dreaming of a motorcycle.

Vacation - Day 2 - Disneyland

We were off to Disneyland after Brett, Amber, Gage, Cassie and Tierney arrived from Seattle. Here are some of our favorite pictures.

At the Disney gates.

Cassie and Christine

Christine got to help Chip and Dale perform.

In front of Walt Disney and the castle.

Andrew, Tierney, Amber and I waiting in the shade.

Cassie and Christine


Gage and Chris

Cassie and Christine enjoying the Parade of Dreams.

Andrew on his first ride. (It's a small world)

Vacation - Day 1 - Medieval Times

Well our vacation finally started!! It's been a long time coming. We started planning this vacation in Jan and now we are finally here in Anaheim!!

Andrew's first plane ride went off without a hitch. Even though we tried to get him to sleep while we were on the plane, he wasn't having it. He still did great though. He was flirting with the flight attendants and the other passengers.

We got to our hotel and ended up heading to the pool since our room wasn't ready.

Here's us at lunch today at Mimi's Cafe.

(Christine's lunch came with dessert, which was chocolate pudding with worms, gummy worms that is.. )



Then we got ready for Medieval Times. Here are some of our favorite pictures. Our knight, the red and yellow knight, won the entire tournament. It was so much fun.


These are the horses that performed for us.


Andrew wanted a closer view.

Our little prince.


and princess...

Enjoying the show.

Our knight was throwing flowers to our section, this is the one that Christine caught. (the white one in her crown)

When we got back to our hotel room, we got to see the entire Disneyland fireworks show. It was amazing!! We could even hear the music too.

Well we are off to bed now.. more fun ahead tomorrow...

8 months!!

Andrew is 8 months old today!! Here are some pictures..





He loves being on the floor.. I call this.. the let me get that for you pose.. :-)


This was Andrew at 7 months in the same chair..