Other Things

Spending 9 days in SoCal and having the parks close earlier with it not being the summer, we had a lot of time to do other things.  Despite filling our days and coming back to the hotel late each night the kids were always too amped up to go to sleep easily.  We gave them some alone game quiet time to calm them down a couple nights and that definitely helped.

We got sushi at a fairly nice place in Hollywood.  You sure could tell that we were a very unusual sight.  I don't think I would have gotten more stares had I walked in naked!  I guess its not that often that early 30 somethings have four kids, take them out after dark to Hollywood and go to eat at a nice sushi place.  Our kids love sushi and behaved very well so it was awesome! 

We couldn't go down Hollywood Ave or whatever it is called because it was all blocked off for the Academy Awards that were a couple days later.  The boys thought it was awesome to walk on the "covered" red carpet.  Trey went over to a corner and was proud to have stuck his finger under the plastic and actually touched the red carpet.  

Needless to say, they loved the hotel pool and hot tub.  Trey here really didn't enjoy getting in the pool right after the hot tub though.

We went to Newport Beach and ate some pizza in a shop with a bunch of stoned surfers.  The kids enjoyed playing in the sand even though it was kind of cold.

After three mama's boys we finally have a daddy's girl.  It was nice to spend so much time with her every day.  My left shoulder that was damaged pretty badly when I was hit by the car started to separate slightly again from holding her so much, but it was definitely worth it!

Despite being locked in a stroller most of her waking hours she found some time to practice walking.  We haven't been doing much to encourage her, but she enjoyed doing it in the sand.

I asked the boys what their favorite part of the trip was...Legoland?..Nope...Disneyland?...Nope....the Curtises!  We stayed over Saturday night with them and most of Sunday.  It was great to see our friends that we had gotten so close to.  Bex and Trey started to feud again over who gets Emree! 

We unfortunately didn't take a picture until after Brackon left for his business trip.

We also got to hang out with our friends the Benders.  Trevor had a surprise party for Sally that night and we tried so hard not to create any problems but Sally was so nice she kept wanting to take care of us :-)  We finally got her to her party and had a great time hanging out with them and seeing their kids.  Our kids loved to hang out all together without parents.