California

We had lots of fun in California and Utah. I know this is an extremely long post so I posted the best part first. We convinced Natalie to go on splash mountain. Actually, no convincing was needed because she had no idea what she was in for. Needless to say she would never consider going on splash mountain again. Using the same strategy I got her to go on Thunder Mountain with me, because she loves trains, I terrified her of that ride for life. She quickly caught on that any ride that had the name mountain in it, she would not go on it. Anyway, here is a video of her going down the big hill on splash mountain. The first part is black but watch until the end, her face is classic.

Alright, first things first. I flew to Utah for a day and while there we blessed Rebecca in my parent's ward. Here are some cute pictures of Becca and family as well.

She knows she is cute

Excuse Amy's squinting she has severly inflammed eyes.

Natalie loves her little sister

The Leiter Family

This is Amy's Grandpa, Jim, he is one of the greatest guys. He has always played a prominent role in our lives and just adores our daughters; as you can tell.

The Esplin family

Disneyland:

The Leiters at Disneyland. I know, I know my brother is a Lakers fan. [Everywhere we walked in Disneyland there were laker fans, mostly Kobe fans. I wanted to vomit everywhere I went. I had no idea that so many people loved Kobe, the black mamba (what is that). I hate Kobe and I hate the lakers. Amy and I walked to get ice cream right after the Lakers won the title and everyone was honking and screaming. Our blood was just boiling, Amy and I were hoping so much that the lakers would lose and the Kobe jersys would disappear at Disneyland. That did not happen. It was so bad there that when in the car we happened on a radio station that was completely dedicated to songs about the lakers. We puked multiple times]

This is what Avery thinks of his dad's decision to like the lakers.

Disneyland was so fun, more fun then we ever thought it would be. I have gone to Disneyland many times, but going with our own kids was by far the most fun we have ever had. We cannot wait to go back. We had a 5 day pass to disneyland which worked out perfectly, we were able to go back to the hotel for naps each day. Amy and I could go back at night while the kids were sleeping, it really was just an awesome vacation. Since my mom, Amy and Rachelle did a day of service for a disneyland pass; we were able to turn the free passes in for a ton of "Fast passes" We had so many fast passes that many times at the end of the day we would start handing them out to other people to use. Thanks for your service.

Becca was perfect the whole time. She just smiled, ate and slept.

Natalie loved seeing all of the characters and would always give them an awkward hug as seen below.

Natalie and Lynsey. Sorry about my face in the background (probably looking at a Kobe fan).

Natalie loved "princess" alice (it took us a while to find a real princess so we told her alice was a princess. Pretty soon she will not trust us at all). Anyway, Alice was trying to get Natalie to wave to the Mad Hatter. Natalie was ready to bolt.

Natalie, Chris, Rachelle and Avery with the chipmunks/

On the carousel

Everytime we go down to Disneyland we try to catch an Angel's game. It just so happened that the Angel's were playing the Brewers. Brewer's won.

Natalie and Avery at the baseball game.

We took an afternoon off of Disneyland and headed out to the beach. Natalie had so much fun she was running around like somebody gave her a redbull.

Thanks Grandpa and Grandma

After Disneyland we went to Nicole and Justin's house in LA. We went to the beach, did some surfing and boogie boarding. We also went to the street where all the stars of famous people are in the side walk. We also went to a place where a bunch of stars have their hand and foot print in the ground. Natalie is jumping on Adam Sandler's pad.

Trip over