Millie's happy place

Miss Millie totally scored an invitation to go with cousins Kamryn and Jordan to stay in a beach house on Santa Monica beach! They were going to celebrate Jordan's 16th birthday!

She rode down to St. George with my friend Jill, met up with the Parkinson's, and they were on their way to California the next morning! 

On the road

They were totally spoiled, staying in a fancy house right on the beach. Check it out:

They met up with Shelly and Jordan's friends from Arizona (Jennifer and Jodie Parkinson) because they were celebrating Jodie's birthday too. Millie and Kamryn mostly hung out on the beach with Shelly for 3 days. She was in absolute heaven!

A visit to the famous Sprinkles for some cupcakes! Yum!

When the fun was over, BS and I drove down to St. George to pick her up. We took Q with us. We enjoyed having our baby girl to ourselves and spent the day swimming at Parkinson's house while we waited for them to return.  Of course we had a little business to take care of with Aerie.

Spring break continues in Las Vegas!

After spending 5 days in California, we drove back to Las Vegas to meet up with the Clarks and spend 4 more days! All but Candice and Doug were able to come so there were lots of cousins! 

We stayed at The Mayan Resort which has an awesome pool with waterslides! 

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa! It was so fun having baby Sunny, Nixon, and Jace there too!

   

Here the kids are messing around at the outdoor shopping on the South end of the Boulevard: 

 The last day we hiked up Red Rock Canyon and the kids were troopers!

Everyone had a blast and it was so fun to be together with this crew!  It is getting harder and harder to go on trips because there are so many family members. Good times!

Spring break in California!

For spring break we completely SURPRISED the kids with a trip to California...more specifically...Disneyland!

We picked up the kids from school, they thought we were going to Las Vegas, and just kept on driving! I have a great video that captures their response when we told them we were going to Disneyland - but I can't get it to load on blogger :(

Of all the many trips our family has been on, this is one for the books!  It was pretty much as good as it gets - because this time we could ride the big rides all together, the 6 of us!

Quin was tall and brave enough. So fun and priceless! 

And, I'm happy to say that the kids are still pleasant and happy to be with each other. Mostly ;)

We spent 3 days split between Disney and California Adventures.  The only characters that Quincy really cared to meet was Elsa and Ana from "Frozen," so we didn't have to spend a lot of time chasing characters and waiting in big lines.  

The big frenzy this year was the new "Cars Radiator Springs" ride. And rightly so - that ride is absolutely fantastic! We were all laughing so hard the first time we rode, not knowing that it entailed a car race!  Luckily we are Disney pros by now so we didn't wait long for even that ride. 

I have a ton of pictures from this trip but I will just post some of my favorite moments:

Madd Tea Party

The Matterhorn

Elsa and Ana

Jungle Cruise

Parades!

Tower of Terror

One time was enough for Quinny

Meeting Minnie

Space Mountain

Dumbo

Big Thunder Mountain

Toy Story 2

Splash Mountain

Tom Sawyer Island. Not a favorite but right in front of Pirates of the Carribean - which we love. And this trip we actually had time to go to the island

Just cute

Q trying to decide between the many, many stuffed animals. Settled on a baby Pluto

And of course the famous Mickey picture

And I can't leave out these action ride shots. 

Anybody see a pattern in these pics? 

Oh, Dad!