On the way to Disneyland................

So like last year's Annual meeting I am going to have to break this up since I have a weeks worth of pictures and breaking it up makes it easy for you to follow and me to blog. Well mostly me to blog but hopefully it is also easier to follow as well. I will start with our drive there and just explain as I go.

We stayed the first night at my sisters house to cut an hour of driving off of our time. So this is the start of our trip at a Wendy's getting some lunch and heading out. My husband is so good to let me take a picture of him eating to document this.

Below the kids are doing their favorite car activities while driving. I had made both of them a flannel board with Disney characters out of a dollar store cookie sheet that also functioned as a hard surface for them to color on and do puzzles. However puzzles did not work so well still. Maybe I will make flannel puzzle pieces the next time we go on a trip. My daughter did the crafty things and my son played with his flannel board and toy cars the whole way.

Here is what we mostly saw of Vegas on our way. We actually did stop in North Vegas and went to an IHOP for Dinner. It was a great chance to get out of the car and stretch our legs have a potty break and have something somewhat healthy that the kids love to eat.

We stopped in Barstow for the night a couple hours away from Disneyland. So here is the first hotel we stayed at on our trip. We stayed at the Comfort Suites and we were not disappointed. The rooms were spacious and bed were comfortable. My daughter and I went to the pool for a little bit to work off some energy before it closed.

We had a late check out and went to church before we packed up and left. Here we are after church packing up and the kids being oh so "helpful". At least they are cute!

Since it was Sunday and we had time we though it would be fun to stop at a few temples that were not too far out of our way. The first one we stopped at was the Redlands Temple. We were surprised how small it was and that the entrance was actually through the stake center parking lot next to it. We didn't have too much a chance to walk around the grounds since 1)The gates were closed and 2)Our kids were asleep.
I kind of have a lot of pictures of this next temple. Our kids were awake and the grounds were open for us to walk around. We actually ran into another couple who didn't live to far from us and were on their way to Disneyland as well. So they took a picture of our whole family for us. Newport Beach Temple was also beautiful.
Here's a few of the flowers. The flowers were amazing as well.
Something funny. My daughter in the car while at this Temple Said," Um Daddy I think you forgot something......." Daddy asks,"oh ya what is that"? Daughter replies,"Dis-ney-laaaaaaand". What can I say she knew where she thought we should be.