Mexico!

Josiah, who seems to be extremely intolerant to sunlight, kept asking me for my sunglasses. We bought him a pair of his own on the way home.

A horseback ride in Rosarito, Mexico. They no longer let them take the horses on the beach, so that was a bummer. It was fun anyway, y muy barato, solamente cincuenta dolares por media hora por todos de nosotros.

It was SO windy that day! The wind (and the upstairs neighbors) woke me up the night before and I thought for sure they were going to evacuate us at any moment. It was very loud!  Gracie on her horse.

Mi familia querida que vive in Mexico. I've known them since I was a young teenager & they are the sweetest people! It was really fun to see them.

Leaving Mexico. Notice Josiah has a little color on his face?

Some pics of Mexico as we were leaving.

Trying to get across the busy border.

Lots of beggars and vendors trying to collect some money.

A picture of Mt. Shasta on our way home. Took this driving 65mph through a dirty window. LOL!

Trip to Disneyland

We're back from our vacation! Bet you didn't even know we were gone! We had a great time but Kenton & I both came down with the FLU on the last day of the drive home. We're still feeling pretty yucky.  So we drove down to Mexico and back and made lots of stops along the way. And as you probably already figured out, one of those stops included Disneyland.  The children did great on the drive! We brought a set of earphones and a tape/CD player for each of them. We checked out LOTS of books on tape/CD from the library and they loved that. Josiah was pretty grumpy until we got to Modesto though!

Millie listening to her books on tape.

What happened every time I tried to get a picture of Gabe (notice "empty" car seat behind & to the right of Gracie.)

We got to Modesto late Thursday night. We stayed at Kenton's cousin's house, in their very nice almost-like-a-house barn. There is also a Christian school on the property, which meant lots of room to run around! So the next morning we held several running races between the children so they could let some energy out.

Later on, we took Grandma Lola out to lunch at Baker's Square.

Then Kenton took the two littlest and I back to the barn so they could nap. When Millie got up, she played outside on the playground for a while. I didn't take as many pictures as I should've. That evening we got together with my dearest friend, Jeanette, and her sweet family. We had a great time. It was a little hectic to think about taking pics. The next morning I got my hair cut and went to the Boone's for lunch and then to the hall for a get together will all of Kenton's cousins. They all showed up & it was so nice to see them! It's been well over 3 years, almost 4, since we've seen them! I hardly recognized a lot of the children! Josiah woke up with a fever that day & wasn't feeling to well. I almost just took him to urgent care, but I would've missed out seeing them all. I hope none of their children got sick, but Josiah was the only one in our family that got it, so I'm attributing it to his thumb (germ) sucking habit. The next morning we went to our old church and out to lunch with some friends. It was so nice to be there! Then we headed to Anaheim, with a short stop in Selma (near Fresno) to have Josiah checked out since he still had fever. (viral) We got into Anaheim pretty late.