We're going, going back to Cali, Cali

 We did our yearly drive to California! With Aaron gone for 3 weeks, we figured it was a great time to spend time with our California family! Before the drive, I had a bag of only 300 DumDums on hand for the kids. The kids did great in the car with the long 12 hour drives each way!

They only watched 7 movies on the way there! :-)

 First, we celebrated Renee's birthday at her awesome pool! The kids played for hours in the water with their cousins!

 Learning to swim from her cousin, Lillian.

 Oma and the choo choo train of kids!

 He played in the baby bath forever! It was nice and warm with hot tub water!

 Travi and Paulina

 Travi and Dani

 Smacking the crap put of Renee's pinata filled with pounds and pounds of candy!

 Travis (1), Paulina (4 mo), Lillian (3), Maddox (3), Chantilly (4), Jake (3), and Max (5)

 My Babes

 We got to spend a day at Grandma Little's house in his fun pool!

 Trying to be safe with life jackets

 Really safe!

 Precious

 Totally content

 Grandpa Little and his Little's

 Cheesy face

 We spent a lot of time lounging at Oma's and jumping on her "jump-oline!"

 Priceless smiles!

We also went to Great America! I hadn't been there in probably 15 years! These 2 are going on the old Blue Streak (now yellow and called something else)!

FUN!!!

Watching a Snoopy show! Me and mom were able to go on Top Gun, the one where you go over water upside down, thrown around, with your feet dangling. It was crazy awesome and I didn't even puke! ANd of course, we had to get delish funnel cake!

 For FHE, we visited the Oakland temple! Gorgeous!

 They LOVE books and Oma!

 We had to go to Parkmont pool, of course, the neighborhood pool I grew up swimming in with my BFF every day during summer!

 To end off the fun weeks, we went to Lake Tahoe with all of my siblings and all 15 grandkids and stayed in a cabin! The water was gorgeous!

Exhausted from lack of naps the last 2 weeks!

 See, water is gorgeous!

 Uncle Tom took each kid for a ride on his motorcycle! Tilly loved it!

 The boys...not so much!

 But eventually, they all 3 loved it!

All 15 grandkids from the left: Emily (5), Dani (1), Rylee (7), Rebekah (7), Maddox (3), Travis (1), Chantilly (4), Brody (5), Leah (7), Paulina (5 mo), Lillian (3), Britlee (1.5), Taylee (3), Max (5), Jake (3)