CA Trip-The Drive & Family

As you have probably surmised from seeing this post up . . . we are back! We got home from our week+ family vacation to California. We had an awesome time and I am so excited to share our adventures and cute pictures. I am going to split the trip into several posts. This will probably be the shortest and most disjointed since I am SO tired after our 12 hour trek home today.

We took off last Friday afternoon around 4:30pm with high hopes of reaching my Aunt's house in Vegas by 10:30. Ha! We ended up taking a ridiculously long stop after only an hour and a half of driving. The food was slow, Weston was slow to eat the food, we changed kids into pj's and in general dilly dallied. Needless to say we didn't get into Vegas until well after midnight. After about 5 hours sleep, we had some fun visiting with the Overson's in the morning. By the time we got back in the car at 10am everyone was ready for a nap.

I should mention that the boys both did awesome with all the driving. My tech nerdy, I mean savvy, husband rigged up the portable dvd player (THANKS Burton's!!!) and a little 7 inch flat screen he randomly had so that they hung in front of each of the boys. We had a car full of little vidiots the entire trip. It was fabulous.

Back to the story . . . about an hour outside of Vegas we (Ian) noticed that the temperature gauge was reading really hot, like almost over the hottest it could read. We didn't notice any other signs of overheating, but stopped in Baker to check things out just in case. After hanging out in the car with the boys for a bit while Ian talked to his dad, the mechanic and my dad, we determined it was most likely that the temperature sensor was bad and it wasn't overheating at all. Then we ate lunch at Bob's Big Boy and picked up some Alien jerky. Yum.
Finally we made it to my parents' house just in time for a family party! Right off the bat Weston got to hang with his cousins and I got to hang with mine. I really appreciated everyone making the effort to be there for me to visit with. I know that's really why they were all there. ;)

We were celebrating Sara and Katie's 17th birthday and they were so sweet doing crafts with the kids half the night.
I forgot to get 4 generation pictures last time I took the boys to CA, so this time I made sure I did. They are extremely informal, but at least I have them now.

Me, Davin, my dad, Weston, Grandma Olson, and Grandpa Olson
Me, Davin, my mom, Weston, and Grandma Snowball
Sunday morning we thought ahead to take pictures of all the cousins looking nice, but the porch swing wasn't the best idea. I still think these kids are all pretty stinkin cute.
Church was interesting. Davin was running a fever Sunday morning, so I drugged him up, but he was still pretty warm and fussy and just slept on my shoulder for most of Sacrament, so as soon as that was over I dropped off Ian and Dav at home so Davin could get some rest. When we all got home from church Davin was still napping. He seriously slept half the day. Poor kid did NOT feel good. By bedtime though he was starting to act more normal and didn't feel nearly as warm. That night was crazy though.

My kids actually slept through the night just fine. Weston went potty once, but Joy's girls were all sickies. Lizzie kept waking up just screaming because she didn't feel good, Mimi woke up fussing and ran down the hall to get Joy and ended up peeing everywhere, and Rachel just woke up like normal for her 8 month old self. While helping Joy clean up Mimi's mess, Joy decided that she and the girls would not be joining us at Disneyland in the morning. It really was just as well. We did miss playing with them at the happiest place on earth, but I'm not so sure it would have been so happy with tired, sick kids. Anyway, here are the kids and Joy playing Zingo right before we took off for D-land.
We had such a great time playing with the Henshaw's. I know it's a lot of work for Joy to bring the 3 girls down by herself, but I was so glad that she was there and we got to have some fun playing time. Woo hoo for visiting with family!

Stay tuned for the Disneyland post . . .