Cali FERN ia!

Califernia...that is what Landon calls California. It's sounds so cute coming from his mouth we opted not to correct him!

Wow...what a magical, fantastic, amazing, exactly what we needed week! We had SO much fun we just didn't want it to end! I have the most incredible family. We had so much fun spending time together and of course the cousins loved being together. Here we go.....the Calfernia recap. (And THIS is the cliff notes version!)

We started out on Monday spending the day at the BEACH! It was 85 degrees, sunny and absoluely perfect. The boys had such a great time I wish I could even put into words how fun it was to watch them play in the ocean waves and getting FILTHY in the sand! It was so relaxing to lay out in the warm sunshine!

Day 2 was spent at the Wild Animal Park. It was another perfect day out and the kids loved seeing the animals...especially feeding the birds, watching the shows, and riding the tram out to see all of the free range animals.

Day 3 was spent at my favorite place: SEA WORLD! I think I had more fun watching the faces of my kids then I did watching the Shamu show. They were completely MESMORIZED. We stayed at Sea World from OPEN to CLOSE!

Last the best of all the game DISNEYLAND!!!

We crammed a TON into one day at Disneyland! Dallin and Parker BOTH went on Space Mountain, the Matterhorn, AND Thunder Mountain! I was impressed...pretty sure I didn't go on those rides when I was 5 or 7!!

We went to the Character Breakfast which was SO much fun. The kids got to see a ton of characters and they would come around and sign their autograph books. It was awesome!

We rode on Pirates, Buzz Lightyear, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, Peter Pan, Dumbo, Autotopia, Space Mountain, Star Tours, Thunder Mountain, Small World, and the Matterhorn. We were actually riding on the Matterhorn WHILE the evening  fireworks were going off! It was so cool ripping down the mountain and having fireworks shooting off RIGHT next to us! AMAZING.

We had 8 kids with us 7 and under in age..and we didn't LOSE anybody! Pretty amazing considering we have quite a few "easily distracted" kiddos with us!! We played really hard and we came back to the hotel very TIRED every night! Thank you Starnes crew! We'll remember this trip forever!!