Trip of a Lifetime Part 1

We have been dying to take Liam to Disneyland for years, but knew he'd appreciate more when he was a little older.  Well, we had decided to take him for his fifth birthday, but then decided against that since it's in the middle of the summer at the height of the heat and the crowds, so we just made a family vacation of it.  It's been our first real, big vacation that we've taken as a family.  We were lucky enough to have Nana join us to help out and to have fun!  We started out on Friday morning (after watching the Royal Wedding!-Amazing!) and went to Yerington pick up Nana.  After we got Nana, Nana brought out the map and Liam had so much fun finding all the cities we were in and where we were going.  It was quite the surprising entertainment!

The kids were amazing throughout the trip.  We hadn't told Liam we were going to Disneyland and we had decided we weren't going to go there until Sunday because of crowds. So we did all of these distraction techniques and such to keep him from knowing we were going there, since our hotel was down the street from Disney.  I think he just thought there was a lot of Mickey Mouse stuff around. haha.  We got settled and hung out with Uncle Beannie Friday night. We had a great suite with a kitchen and our hotel had fabulous breakfast and dinners included. Liam was just thrilled to get to stay at a hotel. 

We decided to go down to San Diego on Saturday with Uncle Ben.  Per my request, as seeing the San Diego temple is on my bucket list. Let me just say, it was totally worth the 1 1/2 hour drive.  The flowers were gorgeous and the temple was just stunning and did not disappoint!  We didn't do a session or anything, just enjoying the grounds and the beautiful flowers and snapped lots of pictures. 



















Liam was too excited to run on the beautiful grass and about going to the beach afterward to pose by any of the beautiful flowers.  To be continued with beach photos...