We Conquered Sea World Again!

So, we did it again! We went to Sea World for Spring Break with our friends, The Garn family, and The Martin family. It was great fun! Except we forgot to leave our kids at home. No, were crazy enough to bring along 10 kids, but it was fun! We got to our Condo on Sunday Night after a long car ride. We were crazy enough to think the traffic from Vegas to California wouldn't be TOO bad on a Sunday afternoon. Boy were we wrong! It took us about 8 hours but we made it and not one kid got thrown out the window so we felt pretty good about the drive.
On Monday morning we were headed for Sea World!One of the first things we did was go see Shamu.

Ry was too busy yelling at Shamu but Aaron gave me a nice cheesier

Madison and Porter weren't very good at looking at me while I took a picture. I think they were pre-occupied.

Brayd was a good picture-taker man

And.....Here is Shamu. Just to let you know we were really there.

We then went off to check out all the other animals....

Ry was pretty intrigued by this big guy. I'm not really sure what it was though.

Brayd liked to chase around this duck, he thought it was pretty funny. So did I!

Madison and Kinzlee quite like each other! They were so cute walking around holding hands and just hanging with eachother the whole 5 days! They are both the oldest of 4 so they know how one another feels. They can be friends.

We took a break in the middle of looking at animals. We went to the play area and the kids ran around and had a good time.

This picture brings back very bad memories! I was just a chattin' away with my friends when Aaron came and sat for a bit, then he turned to me and asked where Brayd was. I quickly scanned the area and could not see him. I jumped up and started walking/running around, while our friends did the same thing trying to find Brayd. After what felt like ETERNITY but was only less than 5 minutes Aaron found him. I should have taken a picture but I was a little frantic. He had climbed up to a bridge-like thing, like the one that Aaron and the kids were on. I cannot believe how scared I was! I no longer think the people that have leashes connected to their kids are crazy!

After we recoverd from the shock of loosing Brayd we headed over to some rides.

Ry stuck with his daddy!


The kids loved these rides and wanted to stay there All Day Long! They felt so big that they could ride without any adults. Madison and Kinzlee still wanted to ride together but Porter, with his little head poking up behind the girls, was man enough to go by himself.

They even went So So High!

Brayd and I hung together. Neither one of us like the scary rides. I don't think I let him out of my sight after our little scare.
This one was a little scary but Brayd and I weren't too scared to lift our hands before the ride for a quick picture. I think Madison and Kinzlee had their hands up the whole time. They are brave girls!

And Ry just might be a tight-rope walker-man. Let's hope not!

Sea World was very exciting but we needed a little break for a day. On Tuesday we stayed at the resort and played in the pools for the afternoon.

Lyndsi was trying to get Brayd to lay down, he didn't do too bad but wasn't a complete fan of it.

Ryan and Brayd don't LOVE, ok, they HATE to be in the water if they can't touch the bottom. So, they pretty much stayed on the steps and played with water guns.

However, Porter is my fish! He loves anything to do with water. He especially LOVED this 150 foot slide.

Madison wasn't too far behind, she enjoys the water very much also.

First Brayd just wandered around.....

Then he found this shower of water that he enjoyed for a couple of minutes. The water just poured over his head and he was ok with it.

Then Aaron got so so sleepy and felt the need to tan his pretty legs. Gosh, he has one hot body!

When it was time for dinner we went home and prepared ourselves for "Spanky's!"
We found this pizza place when we went to San Diego last year. Lyndsi looked it up and found we were pretty close. So, we headed over for some good 'ol Spanky's pizza!

The kids played on the video games while we waited for our food.

After yummy appetizers and ALOT of Dr. Pepper-Diet Coke for the crazy ones-We were ready for our pizza! Look at that mess.

The girls thought their pizza was pretty cool. Those are big pieces of pizza for two little girls.

Not too big for Porter though. I didn't even get a picture of Ry with his pizza. He was there though, that is his arm.

I don't even have to tell you how Brayd felt about his pizza. You can see it all over his face! I know, white trash with no shirt, but I DID NOT want pizza sauce all over him.

When we were all full of fun, pizza, cheese breadsticks, french fries, Dr. Pepper and Diet Coke we headed over to a pier and took a walk on it. It was a nice walk after all the "Healthy" food!

That's a cute family!

And, we found a pelican just hangin' out.

Just us walking along like the Happy Family we are!

The boys were dying to climb on the railing so on our way back they got away with it. They love to climb!

On Wednesday we went back to Sea World and did a couple things we didn't get to. As we were leaving on Monday Porter was so sad that he didn't get to go on this Big 'ol roller coaster. So, we promised him if he was big enough he could do it on Wednesday. Well, sometimes we aren't very good at keeping our promises, which I am working on, but this time we were Very Good and he got to go on it.


Ry was Very, Very sad he couldn't go on the roller coaster with his dad. Porter was the only kid that wasn't scared. He thought he was SO big!

Porter was even in the front and he wasn't scared. I love boys!

On the way out of the park we found this cute cuddly friend. The kids thought that was fun!

It was now time for the Martin Family to head home. We were sad about it, but very happy that Brent gave in and graced us with his cute family's presence!

After saying our tearful goodbyes along with the Garn family we went down to some tide pools. The Garn babies were sleeping so I stayed with them and Brayd. Brecklyn and Adley woke up just in time to get this cute picture!

Which one, which one? Blonde or Brunette? Is what
Brayd is thinking.

That night we went back to the Condo, had some left over Spanky's pizza and baked up some brownies (which Lyndsi was supposed to make before they left) and enjoyed some delicious ice cream.

Madison headed out to this sweet pond which was right out our back door and fed the ducks some leftover pancakes, which were a speciality by Melissa and INCREDIBLE!!

The rest of us joined her a little later. We were very lucky not to have ANY babies end up in the pond!

Aaron rented some fishing poles and fished.

I baked brownies, Melissa fed the kids AND Jordan slept!


Then Jordan woke up and fished. Good Job Jordan, that's a good dad!


The kids did love fishing. They didn't catch anything but they were just fine with that.

I know I have posted SO many pictures that look like this, but I really cannot believe how much it happens.

Ah, cute picture! Just for memories sake.

We let the kids have a sleepover the last night. I went in to check on them and this is what I found....

Cute little Kinzlee just wants to touch someone.

Porter and Corbin are friends!

These next pictures are pretty random. The first time I saw them is while I was posting. I really can't believe how often my kids escape with my camera, but I kinda like it. This is what they thought was important enough to take a picture of.

Kinzlee and Corbin with Madison's build-a-bear.

Corbin's silouette-darling!

Ry. Not really sure what he is up to.

Looks like Porter is trying to run away from something?

Our trip ended WAY fun! We had a lot of babies and A LOT of noise, but I can't complain because I was probably THE NOISIEST!
Are we on for next year?