California Trip- Day 8 & 9

After two busy days at Disneyland, we were so happy to have a day to just relax and play. Took it easy at the hotel and the kids enjoyed their purchases from Disneyland.


We started out at the pool so Addie could show off her new swimming skills to Clay. There were a lot of belly flops, cannonballs, some throwing, jumping and even a few dives. Will jumped in to Clay one time but the water was too cold and he didn't want to do it again! Good thing I had the video rolling!

After we finished swimming at the pool, we headed down to the beach. It was turnover day in the condos so the beach was practically empty! It was nice! We played in the water and in the sand and found lots of seashells!










James did some more sleeping on the beach while we played and then Carson and Rachelle decided to let him feel the water and the sand. He didn't mind the sand or the water till the wave brought some of the colder water flowing around him!



We stayed as long as we could at the beach...the kids had a great time running around in the calmer water as the tide was going out.







We finally packed up and headed in to get cleaned up. Will fell asleep on the way back to the hotel, slept the entire time we were in getting showered (we just took turns sitting in the car with him) and then slept the entire way back to the pier! It was like 2 hours he was asleep in the car...I think we wore him out! We had another dinner at Ruby's but since we got there so late, it was pretty cold (we were eating outside on the pier and we forgot sweatshirts) so it was a fast dinner!

We headed back to the condo for a few more pictures of the grandkids and to get the last of our stuff packed up before we headed back to the hotel for our last night. I think we all got a little sun!




Sunday morning we woke up, had a birthday breakfast with Grandpa and Grandma at the hotel then got our things packed up to leave.

Wish we could have spent more of the day with them but we had to get on our way. We finally left to drive home around noon. The drive home wasn't too bad. Of course it had it's moments and it took us A LONG time to get home but the kids were pretty good for having to be in the car for 13 hours.

It was such a fun trip with a lot of great memories made. This was one of those trips where I didn't want to come home! I could have stayed a lot longer!!! The only thing that could have made it better was if we all could have been there the whole time (some had to come late, some had to leave earlier) but it was an awesome trip. Thank you, Mom and Dad, for such a great week of fun. These are memories that we will never forget! We love you so much!!!