California - Day 1

We left our house early this morning to start this exciting journey to California.  We had the car all packed and woke up the kids and headed out.
Koda was already at the Kunzler's house so we didn't need to worry about him.  We are so lucky to have such amazing neighbors, though I fear we may have a hard time getting our dog back after this vacation.
We met up with Tony's parents and Tim and Suzanne's family in St. George at Nana's house.  We visited for about an hour and then headed back on the road.  We sure do love Nana.

We then drove to Las Vegas where we got gas and lunch.  After that fun we were back at it.  It was about then that Allie had enough time in the car and started crying/screaming off and on until we got to our hotel in California.  The other kids did really good.  Even Megan did good, much better then 3 months ago when we went to Oregon.

We checked into our nice room and got all our stuff brought up and put away.  They had some nachos and chips out for the guest, so we had some of that before it was pool time.  I forgot to bring swim diapers, but I lucked out and found that I had one in the car.  Good for me that I like to be prepared - usually.  So we all went swimming together.  The pool was a little chilly, but not too bad.  The kids all loved it and had no problem hopping right in and having tons of fun.  One bummer thing was that Megan and Tyler both cut them selves in the pool somewhere so we had to deal with that.  Megan's tip of her toe got sliced open and Tyler got a cut on the top of his foot.  Being the prepared person that I usually am, I had band-aids for them in the room.
They were all really tired after the long day so after showers they all went to sleep pretty fast.  We are excited for this fun week of Disneyland, Sea World, and Lego Land.  A big ole THANK YOU goes out to Tony's parents for sponsoring this awesome family vacation!