california!

merry christmas guys!!!! hope you all had a great holiday. just to let you know (in case you were confused) my last post about blogs failed. i was meaning to write everyones blog name below their picture oh and sorry if your pictures were embarrasing (cough aunt hil cough) just joking! but then i went to church before i could finish and my mom must have thought i was done and posted it. but instead of reposting i just realized that all the people who read my blog already read the other ones. except for the girls at the bottom who i guess dont like me enough to read it. but i love all your guyses blogs!! and i seriously check them everyday! so please check mine every...day no just kidding!
but anywayz i'd like to tell you about my trip to california.

i will give you a full story. oh and the pictures go backwards if you look at the one right above ( the one where jake is taking mary to a casino...) thats the first part of our vacation. then it goes up from there. but just like the picture shows we stopped in las vegas at 2am. luke kept on saying "mom this isnt a good place to be." "this is really bad!" and he was scared of all the ladies with purple hair and the tall but way cool hotel we stayed in called the mgm grand. and most of all, he was scared that the people weren't americans.so because of luke's remarks, we left first thing in the morning.


after a long drive to san diego, we finally got to our hotel, the courtyard. it was only a month old and it was very nice. but when we got into our suite it had no hot water and the remotes were still in there packages and the worst part was, both tv's didnt work making dad miss even more of the BYU game. we downgraded to a smaller room but that was ok.


HAPPY ZOO YEAR! we went to the san diego wild animal park. mary's heaven on earth!
she loved it. and so did we! this zoo was way different the salt lake zoo!!
for one thing they had a humongus hot air balloon and me, jake, danny and luke went up!
danny was terrrified but eventually went up with mom. this day was awesome but we are just getting started!

the next day we went to sea world! and it was seriously as if we were literally in a sea world because of the pouring rain!!! but as you could probably guess dad said his famous speech "face it and embrace it" go big or go home!" and so we got our slickers and 7 umbrellas and didnt let the rain rain on our parade or in our case, vacation.
yes! the rain stopped is probably what we kids thinking. yes we are dry! is what mom and dad were probably thinking. but then their kids saw journey to atlantis (which is a ride pretty much identical to splash mountain without the puppets! and without the laughing places. cause we were not laughing when we were even more soaking then before!
but after seeing the dolphin shows and the seal shows we were laughing our heads off.
and the shamu show was pretty fun but what was not fun was driving two hours to anaheim in our sopping wet clothes right after seaworld.


DISNEYLAND!!!! we went to disneyland on tuesday which is always great. jake and i went to the animation studio and drew jack skellington dressed up as sandy claws. speaking of scary we went on tower of terror 3 times! my favorite ride! then i went on california screamin for the first time! but then jake, danny and dad went to a football game (boise state vs.tcu) at the chargers stdium and left about three o'clock
which left mom me mary and luke. i was dying to go on california screamin again but my mom had to watch mary and luke wouldn't come with me no matter how much i bribed him.
so i had to get used to going on the rides alone. which included maliboomer!!! i loved that and several others that luke was too chicken to go on. but oh well. we left at 6
and i was dying to go swimming but wouldnt go by myself so when dad and jake came home i said "lets go swimming" and i lost track of time nd the pool closed in ten minutes. so we ran to get a little hot tub time and literally got two minutes in the hot tub and then it closed.


the next day (christmas eve) we decorated for christmas we bought these little snowmen that you can decorate and we stuck them on our window spelling the word joy.
(speaking of joy, in san diego,me danny jake and dad were driving home from panda express and we drove by the hilton and the windows were lit up spelling the word joy.
sadly we didnt have our camera. but jake took pictures with his phone so ask him if you want to see it. we also bought green wrapping paper and cut out a giant tree and taped it on our wall and decorated it with lights and ornaments and i made a fire place and fire with stockings!! (out of construction paper) later we went to downtown disney and went to the tale of desperaux which if you read the book you probably wont like it cause it was NOTHING like the book! but then we went to the world of disney which is probably the biggest disney store ever made!i even got lost! then we went swimming i think...

merry christmas
on christmas we opened our few presents and we were surprised to find a wii and rockband under our wrapping paper christmas tree.
later mom and i went to disneyland by ourselves and had a blast! the next day we went to disneyland and ran into the roberts and grandma and grandpa neves. we had a great time with them but we had to say goodbye to disneyland. oh i forgot to tell you, earlier this day mom got in a fight with a lady ask her for the details.

to speed things up, the next day we left and got there pretty quick and during the ride luke cracked his head open.... but it wasnt bad. all in all it was a very memorable and fun vacation!! merry christmas guys!