To celebrate Jeff's graduation and to spend some much needed family time together we decided to take a trip to California! We had so much fun! Thanks to the Chris, Jeannie, Cassie and Mandi for letting us go along with their plans which made everthing a whole lot easier. Not to mention all the help we had with the kids! You guys are the best!
Jeff, if you notice Mylie's hair in this one, this is why I said be super carerful not to get any sunscreen by Mylie's elastics in her hair! Notice her hair in other pictures of the same day!
Hair before the suncreen ate her elastics!
A very awkward hug between Mylie and Donald Duck! This picture makes me laugh so hard. Mylie walked up to him and didn't know where to hug him so she bent down to hug his leg! Donald Duck didn't know what to do so he bent down to meet her! I love Ethan's look too, not knowing quite what to do with himself during this awkward embrace!
A day at the beach! Mylie just woke up. 
Soggy Chris
Crazy people in Ethan's fortress they spent all day on!
Thanks for your help everybody!
Greg, this one's for you! Frazier's Rule!
Chris insisted we get a close up shot of the seaweed so that we could research it's type when we returned home. Here you go Chris! I think it's actually a pretty cool picture!
King of the Fortress!
Cute Brother shot!
Trying to get more seaweed with Ethan supervising!
Nice!
Way to go Jeff! Use those muscles!
Collecting shells
I don't even know what to say.........
How Arie and Mylie spent a lot of our beach day:)
The Beautiful Cassie!
Mandi the Magnificant!
Cute Cassie again!
What a cutie!
This was Mylie's pose of choice!
E man!
Some of us! Notice how there are no one else on the beach! It was a little chilly that day so all the locals probably thought we were crazy! Oh well! Good times!
Chris Jeannie Cassie and Mandi
Mylie Mandi Cassie and E
The gang at knott's berry farm! (we will remember it more as the place that searches all your possession to make sure you don't bring a scrap of food inside and then charges you $4 for a juice box)
Arie checking him out!
Jeff's a trooper!
So cute and funny!
My cute fam on the train!
E all tuckered out!
My all tuckered out!
Arie all tuckered out!
Arie hiding in a tree.
Again, nice pose My! They loved the tree house!
My cuties!
Ethan in his Jedi training! His dream come true! I have never wanted something so bad for my kid before then to have him be chosen out of the audience for this. I really probably would have missed the entire day at disneyland returning to this show over and over again just for the chance for him to be chosen. Luckily, he was chosen the first time and we all couldn't have been hapier! 
"I've been waiting for you" said Darth Vader 
Ethan performed his moves perfectly and defeated Darth Vader! I couldn't be more proud of my boy! Way to go E!
Lunch time!
Oh so fun!
Ethan pinching Chubacca's tush at Legoland!
Legoland too, was a dream come true for little E! We didn't even tell him we were going there until we pulled into the entrance and let him figure it out. He kept seeing the letters made out of legos as you enter the park and was way excited about that. When he finally saw the entrance and read the sign he couldn't believe it!
This was his favorite ride.
Mylie doing the smaller version of it!
Me and My on the boats!
So Daring!
Mine and Ethan's expressions in this picture are hilarious! He didn't really want to go on any rollar coaster rides after it :( Not the big ones anyway!
The sign he read and nearly passed out!
My handsome little guy at the beach the first night in California.
Just me and my kiddos!
Jeff E and My
Mylie in the car
E in the car
Ar in the car! All the kids did great on the drive to and from California. We rented a minivan and I definately think that it would have been a different trip entirely if we hadn't! Great idea Jeff! It was gold and beautiful! We called it the Disney Dream Mobile! 
E in Vegas climbing rocks. Something he does very well!
Being a pirate!
We stopped in Vegas for a night on the way to California. It was very crowded and this was about all that we saw. I really have no desire to return anytime soon!