Trip to Cali & our new baby

Last Weds, the kids and I left around 6:30am on our trek to Cali. The drive out wasn't really that bad, only 7-7 1/2 hours! We listened to The Hobbit on the way and that made the time go by much more quickly. . . As we arrived in town, my Sister Samantha met us at one of our favorite places to eat back home T.O. Meat Locker (the only place that Kayla will eat a BBQ chicken sandwich). I highly recommend them if you are out that way!

Samantha (or as we call her Mantha) and the kids with her new puppy!! How cute is he!

From there we headed to my Mom's house... and I finally got to meet her baby goats, well they aren't really babies anymore. They were so funny, very friendly and silly.

Mom with Goat babies

Jai with goat babies

Goat baby climbing Jai! LOL!

My Mom climbing goat?!!! No, really she is just scratching its bum!

Thursday we got up early and headed out to Six Flags Magic Mountain. Todd and I LOVE Magic Mountain and were regulars there in high school. I was VERY sad not to have Todd there - he is so MUCH fun at amusement parks and then I never get lost. Poor kids were stuck with just me, and we did walk in a few extra circles...

Mom and Kids

Ok, the rides are WAY different than they were 10 years ago or so. This ride the Tatsu was crazy. You are strapped on the outside of the roller coaster and are basically flying around being held in only by the bars that go over your shoulders! It was awesome.

My sister had some stuff to do, so my Mom was babysitting her puppy for her. It is a total love bug. It's little play pen was near where Logan was sleeping on the sofa and after he fell asleep it escaped from the play pen and crawled up on the sofa to sleep with him! LOL!!! So cute.

Logan and the Ry-guy

Friday Morning - It was time to go meet our new baby!!! We adopted a little baby Yellow-Bibbed Lory. She is only 6 weeks. We don't actually know if it is a girl or boy yet, but everything else in our house is a girl, so... After picking her up we picked up Todd (who flew in for meetings in Irvine, and so graciously offered to drive us home - even though he could have flown - what a great guy)!

On the car ride home. She really didn't like the car ride and cried most of the time. We tried singing to her, cuddling her, and nothing seemed to help. For a little while she finally passed out (it was very short lived), but she looked so funny passed out. She cuddled under her toy and just went to sleep.

Todd with Baby at home!!

Mom with baby. She had fallen asleep in my arms. She woke up when we took the pic.

Another pic of baby. We haven't named her yet. We are waiting to feel inspired!!! She is so sweet. We just love her. She is mostly covered in downy feathers right now, but should be getting her big girl feathers in the next couple of weeks. How cute!