Friday, October 1st

Today was a relax day, for most of us. Ches had homework to do, so I took Kimmie and Kenz over to play with the Watkins. The girls had so much fun playing dress up and being together.

For lunch the Watkins and Frasers ordered a giant pizza.

The kids got a kick out of Ali and Erica carrying it in from the car.

It was yummy 30 inch pizza!

The boys still had one more day left in D-land so they joined the Poulsens in Disneyland.

They were excited for one more day

They went on a bunch of "big" rides

Looks like Robbie is liking the fall this time around.

Say cheese boys =)

Look at Rick smiling away, he loves these rides

After a morning of fun they kids relaxed and watched tv in their room.

This is why we don't have tv in the kids room.

They can't even look away from the tv to smile at the camera, hahah

Ches getting his homework done.

Taking homework on vacation really sucks!

The whole family came over to the Flippen house for a bbq swim party

and to celebrate October birthdays.
Jake and Maya are ready for the fun to begin.

Loading up plates of yummy food

what a goof

Erica's not thrilled to have her picture taken

Lee telling stories

Dad having fun at the BBQ

Love this picture of Cass and Andy

Cousins having fun in the toy room

After everyone ate it was swim time

The pool was really deep so all the little kids needed life jackets.

Luckily, the house had a lot.

It was totally chaos with all the kids swimming. It got really loud. The neighbor even called and complained, but seriously, it wasn't even after 9pm on a Friday night. I think they were just trying to cause problems for the renters. So we just ignored them, besides how can you keep 20 kids quiet in the pool?

Kimmie and Emma on the slide

After swimming we got the kids ready for bed and Olivia and Robbie opened presents

Some kids started to fall asleep while others were still bouncing off the walls, typical

We found a fun birthday hat in the house and made Robbie wear it.

He loved the nerf gun present

After presents we walked over to the neighborhood park and watched the fireworks from Disneyland. Then every went home to bed.

Actually, only the kids went to bed at our house. We were leaving in the morning and had to be out of the house by 11:00am, with everything cleaned up. That was they only drawback to staying in the rental house. We had to have the laundry done, the dished done, the beds cleaned, and a bunch of other things cleaned and all our stuff out. So the adults stayed up most of the night packing and doing laundry. We made it out of the house just in time.

Our plan was to drive to Beaver UT, which was the half way point. It was a good drive, but everyone was tired and a bit more grumpy than the drive to CA.

We stopped in Barstow to have lunch at the Train Station McDonald's

I remember stopping here when I was younger on our family trips to Cali.

I thought it was the neatest place, my favorite was the giant candy counter.

I loved being able to pick out a piece of candy to enjoy on the drive.

We made it to Beaver around 9pm, a bit later than we planned. But the hotel was nice and we got the sleep we needed. We got up early to drive home to Idaho.

We arrived just before dinner, exhausted and glad to be home.

This was definitely a wonderful family reunion. One we will always remember.