San Fran

On our trip to CA we went to San Fransisco. It was a beautiful day in the city and we had a great time at Pier 39. The kids rode the two story carosel, and we watched a comedy show (kid friendly) and Dallin even got to participate in it. (Funny story, I'll see if I can get the pictures from it and post them too)

Cody

Casey and Brylee (Thanks for helping her Casey!)

Dallin

Nana, my Mom, Brylee, Me, Tate, Brian, Dallin, Cody, and my Dad. (I wish Casey was in here too, but she was taking the picture)

You can see a corner of Alcatraz here on the right side.

Brian and Brylee by the Sea Lions

Dallin by the Sea lions.

John's Inedible Pizza :)

Who doesn't love unlimited pizza and arcade games? We had tons of fun at John's Incredible Pizza. One ride was a huge hit for our family. Laying on these yellow seats below, you would watch a video with a virtual roller coaster on it, and we loved it. You can see from everyone's smiling faces how fun it was. Notice Brylee's face?? I'm pretty sure she was having a great time, even Tate got to enjoy it!
My dad and I each hit the jackpot on the wheel of fortune game and each won over 500 tickets. So we did a little celebrating over that.
Brylee was trying to play the guitar and that was pretty amusing. And watch for Cody, he's got a gun!
(These captions may be out of order, but you get the idea)
We also played the Dance Dance Revolution game, which was fun, and funny to watch. I have a video of my mom and sister, Casey, competing against each other... I better not post it. But I think I'll keep it handy in case I ever need to get some revenge for something, bwaa haa haa haa. :)

USS Hornet

We made a trip to the bay area one day and went to see the USS Hornet, with my parents and Nana (my grandma). It is an aircraft carrier that fought in WW2 but has since been turned into a museum (still in the water though). It also picked up astonauts after their landing capsules landed in the water. We had a great time aboard it, and we learned a lot. I couldn't believe how big it was, and the newer carriers are even bigger. Dallin and Cody have both expressed intrest in being pilots, or even astonauts, so I know they were very interested in all the planes and helicopters, etc. What a great piece of history.

Houseboat

We had a great time on my parents houseboat. We jumped off the top (even Brylee did it!) Brian did a back flip off the top too. We ate, played games, spent the night under the stars, went kneeboarding and wakeboarding, and of course tubing. We loved it all! The water is so warm and our weather was perfect. I can't wait to go back. It was also nice to have our friends, the Fahrneys, come up with us.

A perfect 10!

Obviously we need to work on the boys diving skills...

Cameron, Dallin and Cody Jump

Family Pictures

It seems like everytime we attempt to take family pictures, it doesn't go as well as I had hoped. I can't blame our photographer, because it was my sister, Kayla, and she was really great! No, the blame falls on ourselves. This time it was about 400 degrees outside and we had to wake Brylee up from a nap. So, of course she isn't smiling in ANY of the pictures. The boys were pretty cooperative. Oh, well. These pictures will have to last until the next time we get the urge to try again. A big THANK YOU to Kayla for doing these!!