A Whole New Experience.....

I have been a blogging slacker but we have been busy and I have been tired but enough excuses.

We went on VACATION!! We flew out to California to visit Dad, Nancy, Julianne and Nicki and had a blast. As we all know Hannah turns 2 in November so we figured we needed to head out one more time before we had to buy her a plane ticket too!

So Hannah and I flew out early Saturday morning, Chuck was already out there due to a work trip. Our first flight left at 6:30 in the morning, which meant I woke Hannah up about 4 and she was not happy! Anyways, after the shock of getting up so early, we made it to the airport and on our first flight for the day. Any normal person (including the poor girl I was sitting next to) would want to try and sleep on this flight considering the time, but an almost 2 year old on an airplane for the first time in a long time wants to do anything but sleep and she also wants to make friends with everyone around us. Hannah was great on the flight except for keeping up perfectly nice strangers.

The next flight we were fortunate enough to get to sit in a row just the 2 of us, it was a smaller plane but it wasn't full so Hannah and I were quite comfortable. Hannah was awesome on this flight also, the one thing I learned is that smaller planes do not have changing tables and the bathrooms are tiny!! Anyways, Hannah and I arrived to the Orange County airport right on time, Dad and Chuck picked us up and we headed to Lake Arrowhead. Hannah was so excited to see her Dad and Grandpa but as soon as we hit the road she was asleep for the trip up the mountain!

When we got to the lake house Nancy, Nicki, Julianne and Julianne's roomate Britt were there to greet us and Hannah was up and ready to go. We spent 3 fun filled days in Lake Arrowhead!

Nicki, Julianne and Britt had to be back at school after the relaxing Labor Day weekend so the rest of us also headed down the mountain to hang out at the pool in Glendale for a few days. We had great weather for the most part. We did alot of swimming and we also took Hannah to Universal City, she is way to young for Universal Studios but she thouroughly enjoyed Universal City and ended up with some great shoes!!

We spent the last couple days in Newport. We have never spent any time in Newport and it is beautiful. We went to dinner in the Duffy which was awesome and we took a boat ride to Catalina!! Catalina is kind of like a completely different world!! Chuck, Dad, Hannah and I took a golf cart tour which was pretty fun!

The whole trip was wonderful, I was very thankful Dad and Nancy could put up with us for 6 days straight!! Now we are back to the grind and getting ready for fall!