Valentine's and More

Happy Valentine's Day! I bought some supplies and the girls decorated their boxes before we headed to California. We were going to get back right in time for Valentine's. 

Cute puppy box. 

And heart cookies!

The 100th Day of School was right after Valentine's. Penny dressed as a 100 year old, Paige decided not to. 

Visiting Great Grandma and playing Clue

Indoor Soccer! We loved this experience. Just playing for fun. And all the girls had a blast. 

Crazy hair day. 

The girls decorated cupcakes one day and they turned out beautiful. 

Treats are always at our house. 

Playing with the new Soda Stream

And some skiing!

Beautiful...but very cold day. 

Dress up!

Aubrey and her friends at a birthday party. 

 

Paige Ears Pierced

Paige has been talking about getting her ears pierced for awhile, and every time she brought it up I said. "Let's do it!" and she would respond with comments like "Maybe for Christmas" or "Maybe for my birthday.". Well, this time she decided she really was ready. 

She was brave!

The whole family got to come along. 

She's happy to have her ears pierced!

We bought her some new earrings and she came home and organized her jewelry box with all her cute new things. 

 

Universal Studios

We hadn't planned to go to Universal Studios, but our beach days were not as warm as we expected and we decided we might as well check it out since we were already in California. We had a lot of fun, and it was great to experience a new park. We all still decided Disneyland was our favorite, but we loved seeing Harry Potter Land, where movies are made, and lots more fun rides. 

Red carpet

Secret Life of Pets ride. 

Scooby Doo Van

And Harry Potter. 

Frozen Butterbeer. With Hogwarts in the background. 

The sorting hat

This train conducted was pretty fun. 

The details were all so amazing. So much to look at. 

Hagrid's house

A picture with Bumblebee

Hello Kitty

A Simpsons Donut

And Bart and Homer. I don't think the girls really knew who these guys were but they thought they were funny. 

And a whole land dedicated to the Simpsons. The kids was pretty fun too. 

Donkey

Shrek and Fiona

Guy Diamond

We did try to drive by the Hollywood sign, but with traffic and everything, we ended up turning around and saw it small in the distance. 

Minnions

And Super Silly Fun Land from Despicable Me

It was another fun filled day. We loved the Water World show... basically a live action movie right in front of us. Shooting, fire, jet skis, people diving off towers and even and airplane flying in and crashing at the end. 

Universal had a lot of fast action rides with 3D glasses. We did all get a little nauseous. Jurassic Park ride was good. And the Studio Tour to see where everything happens. 

And hotel pools are always fun. 

LA Temple. It is huge

And a few more hours on the beach before catching our evening flight home. 

We had such a wonderful trip. So glad to get away to the sun. Right after we left, California experienced weeks of rain and downpours. We lucked out with the beautiful weather in the 70s. 

Trying some empanadas

And back to cold Spokane.