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Friday, August 19, 2011

California :D

Cute..
The drive there was about 7 hours more than it was supposed to because of Jeff's dumb car and it's decision to be difficult! We had to stop twice. Once on the way to Las Vegas where luckily the gas station guy was SO nice & helped us a ton! We finally got it going but had to go 65 mph. Great. Our family does not know how to caravan. Steve is just a speed demon and couldn't stay behind us and lost us completely if he was the leader. Dad wasn't that great either.. He by no means is a speed demon like Steve but he had his own issues leading or following. And our car definitely almost got hit by a semi because at last second we had to make the exit. And once in Barstow for 2 hours! The heat was ridiculous!! I am so glad there was a Starbucks so that at least Sami & Grayson could get out of it for a little while. The car was going to cost us a ton.. and we were sure they were just trying to rip us off so we decided to just try and make it to San Clementie! The guy was not happy and was a complete jerk about it. Good thing prayers work, thank you Sami :)


Wow California was so much fun!!! I love it there! Maybe one day I will live there :) I am so glad this is our new family tradition :) Although we have a "complicated" family we all get along so well! There is never drama... Except for the occasional Ryan & Nicole feuds but those have pretty much disappeared. We are able to laugh and play games.. Okay when we play games that is when our true colors come to life! Mom, Jeff, Sami, me, and adopted Jordan definitely got too into the game clue & hearts!! We were yelling at each other. Poor Ryan just wanted to play an honest game of clue... but when it came to the rest of us we did not play honestly.. But that's what made it more fun, yes? Randy was too into A Dre and against our decieving way of playing games.



After the wait of 3 hours for the roller coaster, we got what we wanted... wet! :D




We are so photogenic :)

Seaworld was super fun & very... uh... well you know.  We all are eternally grateful Scott was able to come into our life and we will never forget that man. Or that this is "ONE WORLD, ONE OCEAN, ONE PLANET" thank you Seaworld!! :) We also were lucky to get in a helicopter and almost DIE! We got out of a tough pickle there.

Knotts Berry Farm was great. Waiting in lines for two hours or more.. Especially that water ride, 3 hours later we are on the 12 second ride. For most it was not worth it. But for Jeff he met Witness, score! Randy and Ryan were self concious of us talking about any other race. Grayson was lucky and got 5 stuffed animals.. how he managed that is a mystery!



This boy is way too loved!! Awh he's adorable!



The beach was so much fun! Freezing at night and I refused to get in at night. But at one everyday it warmed up. As our family tradition we buried the youngins.. Zach & Sami. I wish we buried Grayson but that would have given him a heart attack since he absolutely does not like the sand near him! Eventually he warmed up :) Sami did not like being buried at all since she was being "suffocated" so we dug her out and put Randy in. We all got dominated by the HUGE waves. I don't think I should've watched Shark Week before going to California. We did see dolphins!! Zach & I decided that the best thing other than surfboards were the floatation devices :) Ryan decided to push Zach into the HUGE waves... good thing Zach can be brave and didn't cry when he completely got dominated!! Mom, Randy, and I once got out a little too far and couldn't get back.. we paniced a little but it was way fun to see Mom get attacked! It was super fun!!! :D I love the beach!! :)
One of the smaller waves.. yes, smaller! Bye bye boys! :)


Best Quotes:
"I want to take a picture of your packages." -Jen to the Boys "Let's get it on!" -Gnat to everyone
"I hope you have lots of water for when your car breaks down in the desert." -Jerk engineer
"Woof City" "Oh my Woof" -Randy to just about everyone or everything.
"Now that's just rude." -Jr. Heely while being buried alive
"OOOOhhkayyy!" OOhHhYeayaaah." -Big Jeff
"Train, Train, Train, Cockie, Cockie, Cock, Frog (F-word instead)" -Grayson :)

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