Newport Beach...aahh

Yesturday and today we relaxed from parks and decided to partake of the sweet escapes that newport had to offer.  We have a marriott time share so for this trip we are staying in the newport coast villas in corona del mar...cute little town.  We are just a few miles from balboa island/park and all the awesomeness of the coast.
We headed to balboa island for lunch and ate at the cute little italian restraunt called Ciao.  It was yummy!  Then of course we had to get the famouse frozen banana and balboa bar from a little ice cream shop.  Funny story with that...so Allisandria had her cute ice cream cone and was lovin everyminute of that cotton candy flavor. She was running on the side walk when Splat!  Classic...ice cream scoop fell to the ground.  She turned, looked confused as we are laughing.  As this happened a cute little old lady, her husband, and all their riches were walking by...the lady was absolutely heart broken.  She wanted to buy her a new ice cream.  I assured her that it was unneccessary that allisandria was fine...she wasn't even crying, she immediatley started eating the cone which is her favorite part.  The lady said " I am a grandma, let me please."  I still refused...what a weird situation.  She walked on and I thought she had left when a few minute later she appeared with money she tried shoving in my hand.  We argued for a minute and she pulled the grandma card on me again even worse than the first time.  I knew I had to take it or I think she really would have gone and bought allisandria a new ice cream.  I thanked her and she said "no, thank you".  What a tragedy in her eyes.  I bet her grandkids get her for all she's worth.
After that we went to the beach to play in the sand and throw the frisbee.  Turned out to be the warmest day we have had since we started our trip and the wind was pretty much non existant.  Awesome.  We left just as the birds flew in to catch the crabs and the wind made an appearance.  Enjoy the picks.!


Xoxo, Tricia

California trip day 1,2, and 3

Thanksgiving day, me and mu family were so excited to come on our california trip. We are here now and are of course having a wonderful time. We invited our good friends to come along with us to enjoy disney and our time share.  With that, we left thanksgiving morning, we ate traditional thanksgiving dinner at the hotel.  It was amazing.  I have never eaten out before on thanksgiving, and I must say it was nice.  No preparation, no mess. But sadly, no leftovers.
On friday morning we ventured out to hollywood to the chinese theater on hollywood blvd.  Walked the stars, took pictures and enjoyed a little shoe shopping.  After that we heads to santa monica pier and walked along and rode the faris wheel.  Allisandria loooooved that part. It reminded her of charlottes webb.  She thought that was pretty cool.
Saturday we woke up with excitement for our first day of disney.  Marideth was also celebrating her birthday so it wa extra special. Of course I balled when we were in line first thing in the park to see pluto.  Christmas was everywhere, I was with my family and friends, what a magical moment.  We ended up getting rained out and with two small children we couldn't wait the storm. It was pretty cold and I wasn't very prepared as I should have been.  We left. Today the rain was gone, but wind took its place. It was fine for a while, but it ended our day quickly. Although we still had tons of fun. The park was way less crowded than yesterday so that always makes things more awesome.  Allisandria was able to ride way more rides today. She even liked the matterhorn. We were able to do some one on one time while everyone else did some other things.  I was excited,  she was excited to ride the carousel. Then while riding that I saw the the pinnochio ride was way short so we did that too. She thought that was pretty neat just the two of us but was of course excited to meet up with everyone and tell them of her adventures.  Its a small world was awesome.  All decked out in christmas, they added some traditional christmas songs in their theme song. It was awesome.  Bells really liked that one too. With the winds getting rather obnoxious, half of us decided to depart and head back to the resort. Much needed for the girls who were cold and exhausted.  Tomorrow the nelson family leaves and we are having a day of relaxation at the resort before we hit up sea world on tuesday.  Pictures will be posted after our trip. My phone camera is not clear anymore for some reason.  Loves! Happy holidays.


Xoxo, Tricia

mom and dad

my parents came last weekend. This is the only picture i got though...sweet right? Dad always takes a picture like this with Bella...sssshhh don't tell Pia.