A fun day in L.A.

Last Sunday we flew into L.A. a day before the cruise so that we could hang out with my sisters cute family. I don't get to see my 3 nieces very often so I was excited to play with Alex (10), Ashlyn (4), and Avery (3). After a very bumpy flight and an even bumpier landing we finally made it to L.A. in the afternoon. (I must have been really tired because I slept through most of the turbulance to my husband's awe, but ended up having a terrible neck ache from my head beating against the side of the plane). I spent the day being entertained by the girls (and playing "mom" by feeding, bathing, and putting the girls to sleep which included laying with them in their beds until they fell asleep), and Austin spent the day watching sports, the X-games and playing Halo with my brother-in-law Bob. All of the pictures from the day are pretty crazy (that is what happens when you give a 3 year old the camera and she won't give up the camera until the battery dies). Little Avery fell in love with Austin and spent most of the night (when she wasn't taking pictures) sitting on his lap. The girls attacked him with stickers and kisses. It was so cute. He was very patient--he will make a great daddy (in a few more years!) =) We spent the night cuddling on an air mattress and we woke up to 1.2 big rottweilers licking the glass door right above our heads and 2. little girls running in and out of the room whispering about us being asleep. The next morning we saw the girls off to school (with lots of hugs and kisses) and then Autumn drove us to long beach for our cruise. We were a few hours early so we got to spend some time chatting and eating yummy mexican food with Autumn. We had such a great time--we wish we could see the Gunter family more often!
This is the camera culprit (this is one of the few pictures I was able to get of her).





Since I'm a hippie at heart I made sure to teach them the peace sign at a young age... =)




Stay tuned for some pictures from our cruise!!!