Cali Day 3

Our last full day in Cali we were off to the beach! This would be the first time my niece and her dad had EVER been to a beach, so they were both REALLY excited!

But when we got there, the temperature decreased by at least 20 degrees!!! It was mighty cold and we were only about to see about a quarter of a mile in any direction! The fog was awesome but did not make for the best beach weather!

As you can see, Lilah still has on her jackets AND leggings! Needless to say, we didn't stay at the beach long because the wind also started to pick up! But the kids were able to swim at hotel pool where the temperature was 20 degrees warmer and no wind!!!

We were sad to say goodbye to Cali, but we all had a BLAST!!! If tickets remain as cheap as they were I'm sure we will be making another trip in the very near future!!!

Here we come CALI!!! Day 1

$80 round trip! Yep, that's all I paid for ONE ticket, round trip to Los Angeles, CA for a weekend! When my sister called and told me about the tickets, we went that night and bought ourselves tickets for our families! I am so glad that we went on this mini-vacation. It has been a while since Lilah and I have been on a plan and had a trip together, we all had a blast and the weekend was to short to enjoy all the sights- but we were able to have fun, visit with family and get a home cooked hot breakfast!

The plan ride there, ready to go go go!!!

Most of day 1 was spent traveling on the plane. Lilah is a well versed traveler and if she is not in her car seat, she won't fall asleep. Thus, why mommy made sure to charge the ipod, bring her personal headphones and her early V-day gift, a purple pillow pet!

 Unlike Lilah, her cousin can fall asleep anywhere! This was nap time and the perfect time to take a snooze, on her first plane ride!!!

After we landed the kids were able to stretch their legs and enjoy the sunny Cali skies!!!

Oh the divas!!! They are in the right city for all this attitude!!!

This was not the sleeping arrangements we had planned, but they were all tired because of the traveling, they fell asleep together while watching television. We decided it was best to leave them there!!!

First Day of School/MDO

As promised, here are the photos of Lilah's first day at MDO! She was VERY excited to be going to school-I think more so because she finally got to carry her back-pack and her lunch bag!

Daddy not wanting to take her to school. His words were, "she can't go to school yet!"

This is a funny face, but she was trying to lift it up so I could take a picture of it, whiel she was lifting she was saying "Heavy!" Guess I packed to much for the first day!

Waiting patiently in the car to go in! Daddy is a stickler for time, so we were almost 30 minutes to early to even go in the classroom!

Yep, Daddy getting to walk her in on her first day. We're not to sure how many times he'll be there for her first day's of school, so we made sure that he was able to go to this one atleast!

Ok, here is her teacher for the classroom. She was trying to show Lilah that that was her chair, the one with the pillow on the back, but Lilah is clearly not interested! She'd rather play with the baby dolls! This is a bad shot because Trent was literally pulling me away as I tried to get some photos of her in the classroom!

All in all, the teacher said she did great the first day, no tears at all! She ate all of her lunch and her snack for the day, only one accident also! YAY! Bu the other two days, she did just fine, without any accidents either! She loves going to school now and we don't have any trouble when we drop her off.

We are in IL for the next week, so look for more post between now and then! Until next time, have a fun and safe Labor day weekend!