Anaheim – Part 3 – Beach Day followed by a visit with family

The most important thing for us to do while in Southern Ca was to spend as much time with our LPA “family” as we could so on Sunday, when there wasn’t much going on at the hotel, I planned a day out in Huntington Beach.  HB is about 15 miles from where the Convention Hotel was, but being a Sunday, everyone under the sun was heading there as well.  We swung by the hotel and picked up the Wise family and it took us over an hour to get to HB and find somewhere to park.  We’re lucky we left when we did because a few other families left 10 minutes after us and it took them 2 hours to get there – don’t you just love Southern CA and it’s traffic!

Caty and Trisha checking out the water

Caty and Caden  - friends for life!

She didn’t care that the water was so cold – I’ll take Maui ocean over CA anyday!

Caden and his cars!

Hanna having fun

Caty and Liz – they became great friends during the week

Avery heading off to check things out

Working together

Such a fun day – got a little too much sun – those clouds sure can fool you!

We headed back to the hotel to drop Trisha, Caden and Dan off then drove out to Corona where my cousins live.  We had a great visit with Jon, Natalia, Ella and Gavin.  Jon is the son of my Uncle Barry who passed away 2 years ago from pancreatic cancer.  We don’t get to see Jon, Nat and the kids too often but the kids had a great time playing together.  Ella turned 2 back in January so she and Hanna aren’t too far off in age.  And Gavin was born in December of this past year. 

 

1st attempt at a group picture

Oops – we lots two of them and now Caty is getting her hair pulled

The 3 girls

Thanks Jon and Nat for having us over! 

Anaheim – Part 2 – LPA friends

We got lucky that this years LPA National Convention was held in Anaheim.  On Saturday we headed over to the hotel and hung out in the lobby for a few hours, just waiting for our friends to come by…and they sure did.

Here’s Caty with the LPA sign

 

Caty and Haley (from Eureka CA)

Caty and Liz (from Crown Point  IN)

Caty with Nikki and Kylie (from Apple Valley MN)

Caty, Hanna and Galy (from Ontario CA)

Caty and Avery (from Derry NH)

We headed out to dinner with several of our POLP (parents of little people) friends – yummy pizza!!

Hanna and Ivy (Baldwin MD)

Tonya (Greenville MO)

Caty and Caden (Wenatchee WA)

With some friends at lunch

Caty and Payton (Fresno CA)

With Liz and Lisa (IN)

What fun we had seeing out LPA friends!!

Anaheim – Part 1 – And We’re Off

During the first week of July we headed to Anaheim for the Little People of America Convention .  Ok, so we cheated and didn’t actually register for the convention… that’s another story.

We headed out by 5:45 am – made for a long day but we got to Scott’s sisters house (which became out home away from home for the week) by 2 in the afternoon.

 

Caty read an entire Junie B Jones book on the drive down

Hanna trying out Desiree’s chair and teasing Gabby with some sort of snack

Found a park down the street to have some fun at

Caty and Desiree

 

Tutu and her girls

Where have I been?

I’ve been everywhere!!!!  To Anaheim and back, to my parents and back (more times than I can count – the girls are taking swimming lessons at their house twice a week and we’ve been spending the night out there), a quick LPA get together, camping with friends and most recently to the cabin and back.

But now I’m BACK and hoping to get some blog posts done.  But unfortunately we’re heading back to my parents tomorrow and will be home Wednesday afternoon.  Then it’s LPA FUNDRAISER day on Sunday – yet another blog post I’ll have to catch up on.  I’m looking forward to school starting for Caty so I’ll have some free time again to actually get caught up.

Until then…. here’s a previous of a few things…..

Anaheim…..

 

Swimming lessons…..

Camping…..

LPA get together…..

And finally the cabin…..

Let’s see how long it takes to make all of these posts.  Any guesses? 

Where Do I Even Start?

I have more blogs posts to catch up on than I can count. LPA Nationals, swim lessons, summer fun, cabin weekend (which is where we are right now and I somehow have internet on my phone - I've never had internet access on my phone here EVER! This is just the start of my list.

I have the LPA fundraiser in just over a week so maybe after that I can play catch up. Just wanted you to know that we haven't disappeared just been beyond easy.

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