Disneyland Day One and the Beach

We went to Disneyland last week as a family and we had so much fun!  We were lucky because we actually had both sets of grandparents join us at different points on the trip.  It was nice to have people to trade off with to go on the roller coasters and stuff, and it was fun to get to spend some time with our parents.  Lucas and Paige loved spending time with their grandparents too.

The first day we went to Disneyland with Ryan's parents.  This was our first time going to Cars Land.  It was pretty awesome!

Lucas has always loved Cars and Mater so he was pretty excited to see all his favorite characters.

We actually took this one later in the week, but I'll just post it here.

Both Paige and Lucas were troopers for the whole trip.  They did really well missing naps and being out all day.  Paige was even getting over an ear infection and she was an angel the whole time.  We have such good babies.

Here's a couple ride pics taken with our phones so they're grainy.

The second day we were there, we decided to take it easy and just go to the beach.  We found this really pretty beach to go to, Crystal Cove State Beach, and we were basically the only people there.

Both of my babies LOVED the beach.  I think they get that from me.  I don't know what it is about the beach, but I just love it.  I love sitting there in the sun, listening to the waves.  I just feel so happy when I'm there.  There's probably more beach pictures than Disneyland pictures.

This was Paige's first real experience with the beach.  She loved walking in the sand and watching the waves come in.  She was a little hesitant when the waves touched her feet, but as soon as they went back out she wanted to be down and into everything again.

Lucas was just running around in the waves, getting knocked over and loving it.  We are going to have to take him back to the beach more often, he really enjoyed playing there.

Here's a little video of the kids playing in the waves.

We stopped to have lunch, and Paige kept trying to eat the sand.  I guess that's just what happens when you take a baby to the beach.

Then she decided to take a little nap...

..while Lucas and grandma George looked for star fish in the tide pools.

We kept forgetting to take pictures with Ryan's parents so right before they left to fly back to Utah we took a picture of them with the kids.  This and the tide pool picture above are the only photo proof we have that they were actually with us on this trip.

Thanks for making the trip out to spend time with us, Jim and Cheryl!  We had a lot of fun with you.  Next up, we have two more days at Disneyland and Grandma and Grandpa Crapo join us.