Beach Day

On our Disneyland vacation, we also got to go to the beach one day.  I forgot my camera (I'm still crying), but my SIL Katie came to my rescue.  Here are some of the cute pics she took of our day at the beach.

I LOVE this picture of Kenzie

Cafe Trio

Rich's sweet Aunt Sue took our kids for a few hours yesterday afternoon.  She made some adorable Halloween crafts with them, and then took them to McDonalds for dinner.  It was so nice of her and the kids had lots of fun!

Rich and I went to dinner at Cafe Trio, an Italian restaurant nearby.  We'd gotten dessert there before, which was wonderful, and decided to try it again.  This is my kind of restaurant.  We ordered the grilled artichokes, flat Parmesan bread, a BLT sandwich (served on grilled panini bread), and the chocolate torte with orange marscapone for dessert.  We just split it all, so it was reasonably affordable and plenty of food.  My tummy was very happy at the end of dinner.

Cookbook

Here is another item for my wishlist.

http://www.amazon.com/Good-Bite-Weeknight-Meals-Delicious/dp/0470916583/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1319780592&sr=1-1-catcorr

Disneyland

The Lowlights:

• Rich getting gastroenteritis and missing the last two days at the park
• Lynnae and Connor catching a cold
• Dinner at Rainforest Cafe (way too expensive, not so tasty)
• Losing my phone
• UTTER EXHAUSTION (6 day park hoppers and 11 day on the go vacations are just too much)
• Not being able to go on any roller coasters :(

The Highlights:

• Star Tours (Mackenzie's favorite ride)
• California Screaming (Aiden's favorite ride)
• $6 corn dog (best deal in the park)
• ElecTRONica (who knew I had a little bit of a techno dance diva in me?)
• Aunt Kelly

• Grandma Hymas

• Clark, Katie, Aspen, and Bryson

Mackenzie called Aspen her sister all week

• Beighnets from in the park and at Ralph Brennan's Jazz Kitchen in Downtown Disney
• Caramel apples from Marceline's Confectionery in Downtown Disney 

• Finding my phone
• Running into the Kluges
• Aiden and Mackenzie both being in the Jedi Training Academy

• Soarin' Over California
• Meeting Mickey

Other Pictures:

The End

The Wedding that Wasn't and Then Was

A couple of weeks ago, Rich's Aunt Sue called and asked me if I'd be willing to be the photographer for her son Matt's wedding in Idaho Falls.  It's been a while since I've done a photo shoot, especially a wedding, but I agreed to take the pictures.

We arranged to stay with some good friends of ours in Idaho, packed up on Friday, and headed out.  The wedding wasn't until Saturday, but we thought it would be fun to spend some time with our friends.  We'd been on the road for about an hour when I got a call from Aunt Sue telling me the wedding was off.  After much debate, we decided to make the trip anyway because it would be fun to see our friends, and we are already 1/3 of the way there.

We had a great time with our friends.  I just visited with Brook all day while Connor and Kenzie played with the other kids and Aiden and Rich went apple picking and potato gleaning with Nathan.

I got a phone call on Saturday from Aunt Sue about 3:00 saying the wedding was back on and asked if I could come take pictures at 5:00.  So, we packed up all of our stuff, said goodbye to our friends, went to the park where the wedding was, and took pictures.  Then we hit the road and headed home.

It was a nice, but short weekend.  Here are some of the pictures from the wedding.