Our Trip to Cali

We took a family trip out to California this past weekend and had so much fun. We had to get our niece and nephew back for their sister's birthday, so we planned a road trip! As soon as Conlan got off of school on Friday we high tailed it out of town. Because there were 6 of us traveling one of us had to fly out. So we dropped Bryan off at the airport and Jenna drove the 4 kids and a Guinea Pig on a 7 hour journey! About 2 hours out of LA everyone was in rare form a.k.a meltdown. When we finally arrived, everyone sighed a sigh of relief. Whew! Next time we'll just rent a bus. If our family expands anymore, we may have to! Bryan's brother Matt, daughter Rosy and adopted son Robert joined us! We had a blast on Friday night and are sure the details of the night are a blurr to the 2 McCoy boys. We will spare the details here, but let's just say for those of us not partaking of Grandpa's cough syrup it was pretty amusing! We got a chance to head to the beach on Saturday and Saturday night was spent preparing for Cousin Kyla's party. On Sunday we woke up to magical pixie dust everwhere. Tinkerbell had visited in the night and decorated Bell Bell (as Kyla puts it) everywhere! We had to duck out early, but had a great time and got to see a bunch of friends and family we hadn't seen in a while. We stopped off to see Gaga J and Papa Paul for dinner and then made it home. Whew, what a whirlwind weekend! It was awesome to see everyone. We miss you all and can't wait to plan our next trip out again real soon!

This moment reminisced the movie Stepbrothers. We had to snap a picture!

The girls hangin in Auntie Sasha's bed.

Aisy on her first trip to the beach. She loved it. When mom took her down to the water she snuggled right in and relaxed. She loves the water like mommy too!

Cousin Rosy, Conlan, Daddy and Aisy chillin' (literally) in the icy cold water.

Aislinn, Sasha, Kyla and Sienna.

This pretty much sums up our sentiment for the beach.

Conlan adored the water and had a great time splashing, jumping and covering himself head to toe in sand. It is so much fun to watch his process.

Aislinn was loving the sand. She too was covered head to toe in sand. She even tried eating it. Love those solids!

Saturday night after all of the kids were in bed we made Kyla's birthday cake! As you can see we had a little too much fun posing the fairies in their best pole dancing positions!







The cake was finally finished in the wee early morning hours on Sunday for the birthday girl and the pole dancing fairies were on their best behavior! Happy birthday Kyla!

Sitting with Great-Grandma Barbara.

Aislinn meeting Great-Aunt Michelle and Cousin Stephanie for the first time.