Our annual beach trip was May 6-12 and the four BYU kids had finished Winter term, Patrick had tax season behind him and John could leave work for a week. It was the first time in a long time that we had everyone (except Elder Tebbs) all there at the same time. We had two condos this year so Papa, Hailey and Riley shared the smaller one and Garrett, Julia, Hillary, Patrick, John and I shared the larger one.
We have four May birthdays we tried to celebrate every time we went out to dinner which was fun too! John's was May 1, Hailey and Julia share May 12 and Patrick's was May 16.
On Monday we took the crew to Disneyland and had a great time. It's a very different experience going with adults!
Papa and John left in the late afternoon to go back to the condo and a few of us went on Splash Mountain together where Hillary willingly took the front seat so I could be rider #5 behind Julia. We've never laughed as hard as we did listening to Hillary's piercing screams as she got soaking wet!
On Tuesday we went to one of our favorite restaurants--BJ's--and got lots of free birthday Pizookies.
Hillary had to fly home to Vegas Tuesday night to work at Challenger the rest of the week. The rest of the group headed to another one of our favorites--K-1 Racing where we had a new winner in the group since Grayson is on his mission and wasn't able to defend his title.
Wednesday was a beautiful beach day and we took advantage of the sun, the temperature, the bikes and the pool. Patrick left that afternoon so he could get back to work too. The newlyweds spent a bit of time creating a sandcastle...
Papa flew home Thursday morning to get back to Grammy so we were down to 6 of the 9 of us. We had a 2nd day at Disney where we split up as couples for most of the day and I realized John and I had never been to Disneyland alone before. We've always had tiny kids, teenagers or adult kids and grandparents in tow. We had a great day and then met up with the other couples for the Frozen show, a couple rides and the evening parade.
We lost Julia and Garrett Friday morning as Garrett had a bachelor party in Vegas for his good friend. The four remaining partiers went to the Newport Beach Temple and Sidecar donuts. It was rainy and cool the last day so we hung around in the condo before our flight left Saturday afternoon. It was such a fun week and we can't wait until next summer when we go back and Grayson will be home to join us!
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