SANTA MONICA PIER

Characters and Jay Leno

It was my Grandma Elene's 80th Birthday and she's a die hard Jay Leno fan so with lots of help from Ranae's friend Steve, she not only got tickets to the show, but all of her kids and most of her grand kids got in....and drum roll SHE GOT BACKSTAGE PASSES AND A PIC WITH LENO HIMSELF!!!! She absolutely loved it. We saw Giliean Anderson, Steve Carell, Aziz Ansari, and Kelly Rowland. It was a lot of fun and so fun to see the look on my Grandma's face. Happy 80th Grandma!!!!

Grandma's birthday dinner and Universal City Walk

We all thought it would be fun to start posing for all of the cameras on the rides....with today's technology (iphones) we were able to snap pics of the pics that were taken.

Autographs please!!!

CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE

Me and Papa---Me and my girls

Evan loved meeting all of the Disney characters...just look at that smile :)

"Tower of TERROR" Hands down one of our favorite rides.....My little Ryleigh rode it 10 times. She was in love~I'm in the green on the top row and Ryleigh is the little one next to me.

The girls with Papa at the "Wonderful World of Color". Lots of fun!!!

DOWNTOWN DISNEY

The whole family

Playing around at the Rainforest Cafe

I think we had just as much fun eating and talking at Downtown Disney as we did in the acutal parks. It was always a nice break away from the people and the lines. If you ever go there you MUST eat at the mexican restaurant Tortiall Jo's-hands down the best!!!

HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA

Harbour House for lunch-a Markham favorite

Evan's first time in the ocean~

Hot dogs and S'mores on the beach

A hard mornings work definitely paid off--the kids had a wonderful time. It was so fun to watch them all play in the sand, swim and boogie board. After seeing Carson at the end of the night, I now know why Rash Guards have the namethat they do--OUCH!!! We left tired and very cold, but had a great day full of fun memories.

Let the California Adventure begin.......

My parents treated all of us to the perfect California vacation. We've been anticipating this trip for 8 months and were so very excited to see our family. We had a wonderful time and made lots of fun memories. I have TONS of pictures so I'll have to do them in sections....so here we go with Disneyland Day ONE.

Chow time at Disney's Frontierland...We felt right at home with BBQ. Enough to feed an army!!

The Warnick Clan

The Classic TEA CUPS-Alyson with her two youngest and Dave with our three oldest.

The guys always had a mission, knew right where they were headed. Where as us Mom's just kind of wandered until we ran into them or a Diet Coke first.

Grandpa Dave with Evan

Ty and Issac showing us their hats they bought with their Disney Dollars. So cute-look just like their mama!!

Happy 6th Birthday to our Ryleigh girl!!!

Somehow Ryleigh's birthday always seems to get overlooked with us going out of town or it being on a Sunday so we decided to go BIG this year. She had a luau themed party with a blow up waterslide and invited 25 (yes 25) kids---and of course with my luck all 25 showed up haha!!!

Ryleigh with just some of her birthday guest.

Present Time!!!

Trampoline fun and of course Quigley ended up being most of the entertainment which I'm sure he loved. We just love our Ryleigh girl to pieces. She spends most of her time making us all laugh. Despite her shy exterior she is one of the most fun girls I know. We love you-you big 6 year old!!!