July 3rd, we started our long-awaited
trip to California with the Sherwood family. It was the start of the
best week! I took this picture of Lance, Suzanne, and Abby snoozing in
the car. We started the day really early :) Noah rode in Poppy &
Grandma's truck with Ellie and Roxy, and the girls didn't come on this
trip with us.
Abby was prepared with her sunglasses for a week in the sun...
... and so excited to hit the beach when we got to Newport!
It
was fun to be there on the 4th of July. There were TONS of people on
the beach, and also tons of people circling the streets on their bikes
or just walking... as if they were in a parade or something. We had fun
on the beach that day, and just as much fun people watching from the
porch and balcony of the beach house! That night we watched fireworks
from the sand.
The
next day (Sunday), we hung out around the beach house, took a bike ride
down to the pier, and prepared for our variety show that night. There
were some great performances at the 3rd Annual Sherwood Family variety
show!
1st, Brad performed magic tricks for the kids
Next
up, the Gibbons family (and Jax's friends Carson & Hayden)
performed their "family fued" skit. The Gibbons played the MERCER
family, that's right... Roy D. Sharon Jean, Raymond, and Lateesha. This
was so unexpected and hilarious!
We
also got to watch a video performance of Riggs. We missed his
personality on this trip and especially on the night of our variety
show!
Our
family performed a skit, imitating the "thrilla killa clowns" from
Saturday Night Live, who on SNL are imitating the Insane Clown Posse. We
sang the song "Magical Mysteries"...
The
Cummards did "EW!!" from Jimmy Fallon. It was the bomb! They also
video-taped a music video to the EW song and shared it with us that
night. SO funny!
Sara, Mir-i-am, and step-dad Gary
The
Baldwins pulled out another surprise with the "Dope Zebra" performance.
Our kids (especially the babies) love to watch this zebra dancing
online. It's a regular on Grandma's ipad. I'm not sure how it was found
in the first place, but we figured out that it was a dance used for a
CHUCK TESTA commercial. (Chuck Testa is a taxidermist.) There were so
many awesome parts to the Baldwins' performance, including Davis in
zebra dance shorts, Scott dancing in a zebra costume, and Davis being scared of his parents in the costume!
Lucy did a solo dance and it's obvious that she was made for the stage. She LOVES performing and is so good at it!
Ellie, Roxy, and Lucy all did a dance together as well...
Danielle
put on her Tayler Trojans cheer uniform and performed a few cheers that
she personalized for our family... including a cheer for Bryan, the
5-minute & 12 second mile runner / hall-of-famer, as well as a
rivalry cheer for those of us that went to Brimhall Jr. High: "bobcats
for breakfast, bobcats for lunch, bobcats for dinner... crunch crunch
crunch"! She was so cute.
Next
up was the sisters number. We did "Wannabe" from the spice girls.
Auburn was SPORTY, Suzanne BABY, Danielle GINGER, Alisse SCARY, and I
was POSH.
The
closing number came from Poppy and Grandma, aka Sonny & Cher! They
danced to "shake your booty" and invited everyone to get up and dance
with them. It was a great night and another great variety show!
Monday,
we went to Knotts Berry Farm. We were all split up for most of the day
but had an easy time finding each other throughout the day, thanks to
our matching shirts! Abby even got to do a few baby/kid rides and was
scared for the most part. Russ and Noah participated in a basketball
shoot-off challenge. We had dinner at Mrs. Knotts' and finished off the
night with some awesome roller coaster action!
Russ and Abby ended the day on the "baby train" and took some selfies!
The
rest of our week was spent hanging out on the beach, bike riding,
eating lots of donuts & other food we love in California, and just
enjoying being with our family. Noah had a blast sharing a room and
doing everything with Jax and his friends. They walked to circle K
multiple times a day to get themselves drinks and snacks. Abby loved
playing with the other girls and bossing Davis around. Russ and I loved
being together, away from work and home. I also loved being with my mom
and sisters for an entire week. The weather was perfect and we loved the
house that we stayed in. This vacation was seriously so perfect! These
are some pictures we took throughout the week, in random order...
Alisse took some cute pictures of Abby while we were at the beach, to document her cute (and sassy) 2-year-old self!
Our
last few nights on vacation were spent eating dinner at Stacked with
our whole group, and going to Balboa the very last night for dessert...
This
is a picture of Abby on the way home. When we were almost home, she
kept saying "go back to the beach house". I felt the same way! One week
wasn't quite long enough. Thank you to my mom & dad (Grandma &
Poppy) for providing the best vacation for us! It was one of the best
ever!
