San Diego Zoo

We went to the San Diego Zoo for a day during our trip. We saw lots of different animals that we don't have at our zoo. Ty liked the flamingos the best, since he decided on his way to California that his new favorite color was pink. McKinlee got pretty excited when she saw the bears and was growling at them. It was pretty fun, but it was a really hot day. We were glad the stroller fit on the sky tram at the end of the day.

The giant pandas were neat to see.

Darren, McKinlee & Ty on the tour bus.

Coronado Island

After we left the zoo, we wanted to go to the beach. We decided to go to Coronado Island because it was close and we love the bridge. The sun was setting when we got there. It was really pretty. I took some pictures out of the window as we were going over the bridge. We about had the beach to ourselves, it was really nice. This is looking back at San Diego.
Ty and McKinlee had so much fun in the water and sand.

Disneyland Slideshow

California 2008

We had such a fun time in Disneyland this year. It was the perfect time to visit. There were hardly any lines at all and the weather was almost perfect. It was a little hot the first few days.

We rented a nerdy mini van and drove down with Brenda and Melinda. The van was quite comfortable to ride in (thanks to the bucket seats in the middle row), but it was very noisy in the front seats...thanks to the roof bag. Oh well, we needed it for the stroller on the way down and it was packed full on the way home.

Ty was finally tall enough to ride most the fun rides. His favorite ride was Splash Mountain, we rode it so many times. He rode it at least twice everyday. There was always someone willing to sit out with McKinlee so he could go again. He really liked them all except for the Matterhorn. He had watched "A Day in Disneyland" too many times before we left and knew that the abominable snowman was in the ride. He loved all the other rides.

McKinlee was really cute with the characters. She was not nervous about them like Ty was, she wanted to hug and kiss them.

I think the highlight of Disneyland was breakfast in the park with Minnie and friends at the Plaza Inn. It was a great way to see the characters and the food was really good too. We will have to make this a tradition of every trip.

With only a few major and a few more minor "incidents", we got along pretty well for spending eight days together.

The kids were good in the van, they had fun

with Melinda & Brenda entertaining them for the long ride.

We stopped at the park in Washington for lunch on the way.

Halloween

Halloween was really fun this year. McKinlee dressed up as Eeyore and Ty was a Monkey. They had fun a lot of fun. We went and visited Grandma & Grandpa's houses and did some trick-or-treating.

Eeyore McKinlee

Monkey Ty

Ty had a Halloween party at preschool and he wanted to dress

as Mickey for the party. He was Mickey last year and it still fits

him so he got dress up in two costumes this year.

Molly came trick-or-treating this year too.

She dressed up as a crab...poor thing.

Of course, Ty had to try on Molly's costume too.