.travels to DISNEYLAND.

Our trip came up quickly after the holidays. I told Josh once I got pregnant, we really should try to make a trip to Disneyland before the baby gets here. Because I didn't see it happening anytime soon after that. I researched and decided January would be a good time to go. The weather looked decent and we needed to go before I got too big. The kids all went to school Friday morning. Josh slept in a bit from working the night before and then we were busy for awhile packing up the car. We picked Brynn up from preschool, got TJ and then on the way out of town picked up Gage at Willard. The drive went well. I had planned quite a bit about some activities to keep them busy so they wouldn't be watching movies the whole time. I bought a cookie sheet that they were able to do puzzles on and some letter magnets that were a big hit. I went to the library before we left and got some book and books on CD. We listened to and finished The Incredible Journey. We stopped halfway to stay the night in St. George. Before we checked into our hotel, we ate dinner at the Pizza Factory in town. As we were waiting for our order, my cousin Bryn walked up! She was staying in town with some friends for a girls weekend! Its crazy the places you run into people sometimes! I wish I remembered to get a picture! The hotel was very nice. We all ran down to go swimming before bed. The pool was outdoors, but heated which made it nice. We put all the kids in one queen sized bed, horizontal the whole trip. It worked nice because then no one had to have the floor. I don't know if we'll be able to do that the next time because TJ just about had his feet hanging off the bed!
Saturday we woke up and headed to California. We finished out book on CD that day and again the kids did very well. We drove the strip as we traveled through Las Vegas. We stopped at the Outlet mall and did a bit of shopping before we got in the car again. Once in California we stopped at a McDonalds for lunch. We arrived at our home for the next 5 nights and again headed straight to the pool! The hotel was very nice, but the pool wasn't as good as the one in St. George. After swimming we drove around a bit and made our way down to Disney. We found a Subway for dinner that night.

.vegas wrap up.

We woke up Wednesday morning and checked out of our hotel. We had another room reserved for our last two nights in Vegas. I thought it would be fun to do two hotels and change things up a bit. We drove over to the Palms Hotel to check it out since its quite a ways off the strip. We found the Huntington Tattoo shop. Since I'm a reality show junkie we've been watching the Hart & Huntington Tattoo show on A&E. It was way different than the show! I was glad to get Josh out of there because he made me nervous the whole time he'd really get a tattoo!
We called the kids and said hello that night before dinner. We ate at the Hard Rock Cafe.

We checked into our suite at the Aria. It was a fancy hotel across the street from where we stayed the first two nights. We rested up a bit and walked all the casinos on this side of the strip.

Thursday morning was spent again at the pool. We then went to try and get tickets to an afternoon comedy show at Harrah's. The street side ticket booth said the show was sold out but we went down anyway. We found the theater and asked about tickets which they still had available. We were about 10 minutes late, but the show was fantastic and we were so glad to make it. It was the Mac King Comedy show.

The Vinetian. We wondered around, shopped and ended up eating dinner again at the Cheesecake Factory for the second time!

Our room was really neat. It had windows on two whole sides of the room. I was hoping we'd get a room on the Bellagio side of the resort so we could see the fountains at night. We ended up on the opposite side, but the view wasn't bad! :)

Josh crashed out after all that walking!
We left for home early Friday morning. The drive seemed long and we were anxious to see the kids. It was a fabulous trip, I loved spending so much time with just each other. It was so good to be home, but I'm having some major vacation withdrawal! Can't wait till next time babe!

.Tuesday.

We spent the entire morning at the pool! Poolside is much more relaxing when you don't have to keep your eye on little ones.

We got showered and dressed and then headed to an early dinner. We ate at PF Chang's in Planet Hollywood. Love it there!

Most of the rest of the day we spent walking! Walking and walking is pretty much all you do in Vegas. We got a few pictures of the gorgeous gardens in the Bellagio.