Trip To Meet Annie and Oliver

We were blessed in late March to have Annie and Oliver join our family. Calee and Tony welcomed these sweet babies into their lives and we were looking forward to meeting them. Unfortunately with my work schedule, pre-planned vacations, the boys school schedules and other commitments, we had to wait a while before we could get to CA to see the sweet bundles of joy. In mid August, Ricky had a trip planned with his cousin to go shoot night pictures at Arches National Park. I decided that I would take the boys to CA for a quick weekend trip to finally meet Annie and Oliver. 

We left Friday after school and headed straight for CA. We stopped for a quick dinner at In-N-Out near Palm Springs and headed straight to Calee’s house in La Habra from there. We got in just before the babies were going to bed so we go to hold and kiss them for the first time. Saturday we spent most of the day helping with and playing with the babies. They were precious! We went out for lunch to one of my favorite places - Mad Wolf Mongolian BBQ. Ricky and I used to go there fairly often when we lived in La Habra Heights…that was 14 years ago. I wanted to take the boys there and share that experience with them. Calee and Tony joined us and brought the babies. To my surprise, the place had totally been made over inside and it looked better than ever. It was also as good as I remember it being. Delicious! We certainly missed Ricky but glad he was having a good time with Tyler.

Saturday afternoon and evening we connected up with Tevye’s family so the cousins could all play together. They had such a wonderful time and the boys couldn’t be happier. It was so fun for all of us to get to visit and be with each other. Grammy also came to Calee’s house so she could visit as well. Sunday morning we started our trek back home to AZ but first had a quick breakfast detour to Rainforest Cafe in Downtown Disney. We walked through the shops to burn a little energy before jumping in the car for our drive home. It was a quick trip but so fun! The boys were pretty well behaved and made the drive an easy one. We missed Ricky and we were happy to get home and squeeze him. We already miss Annie and Oliver and look forward to seeing them again shortly!

Dinner stop at In-N-Out

Logan, Annie, Lincoln

Lincoln holding Annie

Logan holding Annie

Selfies certainly do a good job of entertaining children. Oliver, Logan and I had a good time taking silly pictures. 

Lincoln, Oliver and Logan

The boys at my favorite Mongolian BBQ in La Habra

Inside looks much different, and way better, than when we used to go there ten plus years ago.

Delicious. We still talk about the famous hot pocket bread from the sun. 

The boys seemed to love it. Like mother like son...he stuffed his noodles in the hot pocket like I do.

Annie and Oliver

Grammy and the boys

Cousins! Logan, Lincoln, Danica, Caden and Vance

Downtown Disney visit.

Breakfast at Rainforest Cafe.

Lego friends