March

MaRcH!

The first of March, I flew out to DC for Julie's wedding. I met Lars out there, and met her adorable little one and we spend the whole weekend together. Julie was beautiful and we are so excited for her and TH. They are a fun couple and marriage will be a piece of cake for them =) Congrats to you guys again. We sure do love you!

So while we were booking my tickets for DC, we realized there were no flights available back to Portland on Sunday. So I'd stay in DC for an extra day. Lars had already booked her ticket to leave Sunday, and I knew Julie would be off on her honeymoon, so I thought I guess I'll have a day to tour on my own. So somewhere after that, we looked into me flying into LA on that Sunday because the Ricker family was already going to be there. What do you know, a flight open. We all decided to make a trip out of it, and invited my parents too. My parents, Leslie, Joaquin, Jay & kids all left Friday morning in the motorhome, The Rickers & Josh flew out Saturday morning and got there around the same time Saturday afternoon. Then I flew in Sunday to meet up with them. They did Universal studios before I got there, then Disney Land on Monday, then California Adventure on Tuesday. It was such a blast! I hadn't been to Disneyland since I was a kid, and Jay had never been. We definitely needed more days there... Disneyland is too big to hit everything in one day. I guess we'll just have to go back =) A big THANK YOU to both our parents for making it possible to all be together and have a fun trip.

Here's some pictures of our trips...

Julie's wedding in D.C.

Meeting little Carden

Julie & TH

Universal Studios

Jay sent this picture to Aaron and his reply, "steal it for me"

I guess Jay let Gwen down, and she ran right up to Homer

Diego hanging out with Gwen. Jay said there were tons of kids waiting their turn for Diego, saying "it's out turn", but Diego didn't care and hung out with Gwen for a few minutes

Disneyland

On the Jungle Cruise

Chum & Jade on Indiana Jones

Hanging with Fino

So Jay, Gwen & I sat behind my parents on the Toy Story ride. The ride started, we look and both my parents have their buzz light-year guns and are shooting at things.
It was just a funny image. Parents, no kids, shooting the toy gun.

Soy & Les on one of the kid rides

Taking a break for lunch

Pirates of the Caribbean

Take a wench for a bride. Classic.

Big Thunder Mountain Railroad

Splash Mountain
Leslie & Josh didn't follow Jay's lead and go shirtless for the wet ride

"Dad, You got pooped on!"
Roger: "Well, I know what it is!"

Toontown!

Donald's boat

Hanging out in Donald's boat

Us on Roger Rabbit

This is what Gwen did every night, all night long at the condo

California Adventure

The Tower of Terror
We went on this ride like 5 times, and even got Kathy & Soy to go on it. My mom wouldn't. All the tricking and lying didn't work. Kathy & Soy say they wont do it again.

Jay & Jade posing for the camera, Kathy screaming and about to pee her pants, John man enjoying the view, Dad enjoying all the excitement. Heather, Chum & apparently random guy on the front left laughing at Kathy, And the two behind my dad are giving the ride "a double thumbs up" which I think we all (minus Kat) would agree.

Chum and Leslie concerned for Soy, Josh thinking something is funny, Soy's not sure what's going on, and girl behind Leslie, looking pretty for the camera

And we finished the night buying souvenirs, of course

On the road back home... this one was pooped!

On California adventure's Ferris wheel
Maybe you had to be there, but we thought it was pretty funny

Another video of the Ferris Wheel
Why is it so entertaining to watch people who are scared?

kisses goodbye!