Disneyland Part 1...

Holy crap. I can't believe it has been so long since I last posted. I mean obviously a lot has had to have happened in the last year, right?! Oh well. I can tell you there is definitely a bunch I wouldn't like to repeat like Riley's tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy and then his post op bleed and emergency surgery. Or my knee injury at the trampoline place that ended in surgery, no walking for 4 weeks, a blood clot, and a ridiculous amount of fast food because poor Jeff had to work at least 40 hours a week, take care of the kids every need, take care of me, do laundry, keep the house standing, AND worry about dinner. Sigh. I'm glad that's all over! So let's focus on something awesome! DISNEYLAND! Jeff's parents go to Disney every year. They have a time share with Marriott and they trade it in or something and stay at the Newport Coast Villas. Um ya, they are awesome. They are condos with 2 bedrooms, a full kitchen, living room, dining area, 2 balconies, 2 bathrooms, amazing pool views and a short walk to the beach! After our excitement over the last few months we were both ready to get away! We were trying to make sure we had an awesome time, but cut costs too. We knew we were going to need a car down there no matter what so we decided to drive vs fly. I am a big proponent for driving at night while the kids sleep because I really don't want to listen to Addie scream and freak the whole way. She is kinda in a phase where after she has been in the car for like 10 minutes she is ready to get out and has no problem letting you know it. So driving at night was definitely the answer. I am totally a night owl so I wasn't really worried about it, although I did have to work the morning we left and was up at 430 am the day but whatever. We left on Friday night at like 10:00 after fighting about packing the car haha. A mans packing vs a womans packing...need I say more?! Anyway we stopped by the library to drop our books off in the drop box so we didn't get any fees while we were gone (hahaha Erika will appreciate this!) and we filled up the gas tank and off we went. Well we got to centerville/woods cross and there was an accident blocking all of the lanes but one! Awesome way to start a trip right? I guess better them than us...I hope no one was seriously injured though! Anyway, so the kids are asleep in the back and Jeff gets all cozied up. (I don't think cozied is a word, so just pretend). So here I am cruising by myself. It was kind of peaceful. I was a little nervous about animals running out in front of us or someone else falling asleep and crossing over into our lane, but other than that all was well. There was hardly anyone else on the road except for an occasional semi. Jeff and I had decided that we would switch driving in Cedar City. Well as we approached Cedar, Jeff was fast asleep and I was feeling pretty good and I knew we had enough gas to make it to St. George. We made it to St. George in about 4 hours and 20 minutes. I drove about 80 MPH the whole time. Jeff was pretty excited to wake up and be closer to our destination than he thought he would be! So we got gas, a large Mtn Dew and we were on the road again. Both kids had woken up at our pit stop so it was kind of a pain going to sleep because Addie kept yelling. Oh well. So I finally fell asleep for about 2-2.5 hours. I woke up and we were pretty close to Barstow, CA. I noticed the tire pressure light was on and asked Jeff about it and he said it had come on about 100 miles back but he thought it was just due to the change in temperature. My tires tend to be pretty sensitive to temperatures and even if they are 1 psi off the light comes on, so we didn't really think much about it. We got to Barstow and needed gas and food. We stopped at Ihop (which Riley exclaimed, MOM we have hipop in our land too! Ha! Probably the best quote of the trip!) Well while we were waiting for our breakfast (which took f.o.r.e.v.e.r) Jeff decided to check on the car since all of our crap was in there. He came back and told me we had a flat tire. Awesome. So we finished breakfast and then headed to a tire shop just up the road.

The Flat

The Nail

The guy came out and looked at the tire and asked how long we had been driving on it. Jeff told him 100 miles (haha we sound stupid lol) and the guy said well that is 1 of the problems. Besides driving on a flat for a wicked long time, the nail has super close to the wall of the tire so he couldn't patch it. We HAD to buy a brand new tire. $106.18 later we were back on the road. We were going to take the kids to a park so they could get some wiggles out but we drove to a park and the houses near it had bars on the windows and we were pretty confident we could get shot...so we left. Well Barstow to Newport Beach is only a little over 100 miles so we weren't too worried about the wiggles. So we continued on our way. Addie didn't eat a whole lot at breakfast but a bit later decided she was hungry. I had seen an idea on pinterest where you pack a bunch of snacks in an old wipes container. I decided to try it out, and boy was it awesome! It made all the snacks way more accessible and Riley thought it was neat he could look at all his snacks and pick what he wanted in what order instead of me listing off stuff and him deciding. So we filled Addie up on apple sauce, goldfish, pringles, and fruit snacks (super healthy I know, but easy to eat in the car.) So she eats and then they want stuff to do. Well Riley gets car sick so there wasn't much I was going to allow him to do in the car. In fact, I don't think he did anything but sit there. Well I let Addie do some coloring and then she started to get whiny so I gave her the iPad. She was still being fussy so I took it from her to try and get a movie going and the next thing I know she is throwing up everywhere! I am like are you kidding me?!?! We were like 30-45 minutes from our destination and Jeff was like we are not pulling over! Her car seat was covered in puke, as was she.

He was like we just have to get to the condo. So she cried for a bit and then fell asleep. In her own puke. Sad. So we get there and we literally have 3 hours until check in. We knew this was going to be the case but figured it wouldn't matter cuz we could go hang out at the beach or find a playground (because we weren't in the ghetto anymore) or something. But that isn't the case when you have a child sleeping in their own vomit. So I go to the registration desk and let them know we are there and if the rooms becomes available early then we want to check in. The gave us keys to use the amenities while we waited. So we went and parked and waited for Addie to wake up. I cased out the place while we waited. When she woke up we took her entire car seat out with her still in it. We then took her out, stripped her down to her diaper and started the cleaning process. I took her to the bathroom at one of the pools and literally gave her a bath in the sink including washing her hair. I felt homeless haha. Essentially, we were. I just prayed no one would walk in while I was bathing my naked child in the sink of a high class resort. Luckily, no one did. We went back up to the car and Jeff had taken her car seat apart and was scrubbing it with wipes. Yet again we hit the white trash status. Well by that time about an hour or hour and a half had passed. We decided to go get some lunch and wait for Jeff's parents to show up. They were driving too, but didn't take the daredevil drive at night route. Well just so you know Newport Beach pretty much has NO fast food. And not that that was our first choice or what we wanted, it WAS the easiest. Although, it was not easy to find a place! So we ate and Jeffs parent's had shown up by that point. We met them at the condo and only had to wait another 20-30 minutes or so before we could actually enter our condo. Boy oh boy was it nice to finally have a place we could sorta call home! We threw the puke infested items into the washer and dryer and unpacked all our stuff and just relaxed. Ok this is getting wicked long. I guess that's what happens when you don't blog forever...So for now, this is to be continued...