Ian & Flynn: California

While I usually post these for our families in California, I still wanted to share our trip to Cali even though most of you were there! We broke the 18 hour drive into 2 days, staying with the Leibengoods on the way down and the Shaw's in San Diego. Then we has 3 days in Palm Springs with Dave's dad and Charlie and 3 days with Dave's mom and Kathy in Joshua Tree. It was scorching hot, they were having a heat wave (of course!) and we found ourselves heat sissies! Then we spent 1 day at the big D, Disneyland for Ian's 3rd birthday! My mom went, too and it was so fun to see my child enjoy a place I have so many great childhood memories of! Flynn stayed with gramma and Ian was a champ there, had a jam packed 8 hour day with no meltdowns! It was a good day to go, too; the lines were short and we hit everything Ian had been looking at on their website for 2 months! The kids proved good travelers; we had bought Ian a DVD player for the trip and he maybe watched 2 hours of it during the 36 hours in the car! Flynn was upset the 1st day being in a rear facing carseat and not being able to see anyone. So the rest of the trip she and I sat in the 3rd row together and she was fine! Thank God for mini vans; we were very comfortable and had room for all the crap we had to haul around with 2 small kids! Of course we didn't get to see everyone we would have liked but we enjoyed ourselves and thank everyone for their hospitality!!