Cousins and Irvine Park

It's been two weeks since we've been home from our CA trip and it's about time I post these pictures!  The kiddies and I took a 2.5 week trip to visit some family and to debut little Betsy girl.  Seven hours off of the plane, Tristan started his throw up fest.  It went on for 2 days.  Every time we get on a plane we catch something and get sick!  Plus, we are exposed to so many new germs on the mainland.  It makes traveling so much harder.  :(  After the 2 loooonnnng days were over, we thought we were in the clear of catching it because we had 4 healthy days.  Then Tristan's cousin, Joaquin caught it really bad.  My mom caught it.  Then it hit me pretty hard for 2 days.  Then back to Joaquin.  Then his mommy and daddy caught it.  Aunt Chelcie caught it too!  It was all a nightmare.  I don't even want to mention Tristan's Croup Cough he caught right after with 103 temperatures a couple of nights in a row.  Then passed on to sweet Joaquin.  We spent half of our trip on survival mode and trying to recover.  But the other half was a ton of fun.  I will let the pictures below do the talking, along with the next couple of posts.  

Sweetest little girl.  She managed to stay healthy through all of the sickness chaos.  Also, it has been decided by all that Betsy looks most like her Aunt Courtney (Christian's sister).  

During the 4 days of thinking we were all healthy and good to go, we met up with Ian and Alisa's family for lunch.  Lunch was CRAZY trying to control all of these cutie pies, especially while trying to take these pictures with their Nama and Papa.

This is what was really going on.  We have about 100 more of these pictures.

Someone got her cute little toe nails painted by her Aunt Chelcie!

She mastered sitting up on this trip.

During our first 4 healthy days, we met up with the Hastings family at Irvine Park.  They were in town staying in Oceanside with the Kringels (Christian's sister and brother in law).  I've never been there before but it was a perfect place to have a picnic lunch and enjoy all of the fall festivities.  

Betsy with her Aunt Courtney.  Twinners!

Tristan and his Tutu on the hay ride.

The rest of the gang enjoying the hay ride.

Tristan's first pony ride!  He was singing, "ridin' the range, ridin' the range, let's go ridin' the range, yaw hoo!".  (From the Backyardigans show).  

Notice the same scrunched face in all of these pics.

Tristan got his cute face painted.  He said no to super heros but YES to a pumpkin.

 Checking out his painted face in the mirror.

California trip to be continued...