California Vacation: Part 1

The Wedding

We took a trip to California this past week and had a lot of fun.  We started out going to a wedding in San Diego and then Sea World.  Then we headed up to Orange County to check out Disneyland and the beach.  I grew up in Fullerton in Orange County so we planned to tour around a few of my old favorite places as well.  But the first part of our trip was to Scott's cousin's wedding in San Diego.  I was doing a lot of child wrangling so my photos are kind of random...

Here we are at the dinner the night before.  Scott and Grandma Guptill helped Anna through dinner! 

 

Randall and Serena at our table (Scott's sister and her husband)

The dinner was late and the kids got sleepy.  Matthew laid down to rest part way through.

Grant got sleepy too.  He had my big belly to lay on.  :)

The dinner was very nice we got to visit with a lot of Scott's family...and that was only the beginning!

At the temple!  Here are the kids after the ceremony.
I like how Grant and Matthew have the same smile.

And Scott, Grandpa Guptill and Grant all dressed up!

Anna and Matthew with their cousin, Olivia, outside the San Diego temple.  It was a pretty day!

Anna had so much fun playing on the grass.  She kept doing somersaults in her white dress.  Luckily Anna, and the dress survived.  :)

Olivia and Grant.  Olivia is our little niece and she is almost 21 months old.  Grant is just 13 months now, so they are doing different things, but they were cute sitting by each other.

Our little family.  Anna was having a sad moment.

We drove out to Hemet from San Diego for the reception.  A longish drive - 90ish minutes away.  Matthew got tired.

The reception was at a beautiful house in Hemet.  I got very tired of chasing the little Grant around and keep him from falling in the pool.  Luckily I had lots of helpers.  Here's Grandpa Guptill with him.  They were wearing matching outfits that day!

 

They let some butterflies out at the reception.  Here is Anna with the bride and groom, watching the butterflies.

Matthew and Anna were excited to send off the bride and groom with sparklers!

It was a lovely wedding and reception and it was nice to see family.
  More vacation adventures to come!