Newport Beach Vacation 2012

New Port Beach California

New Port Beach Temple

 Our family went to Newport Beach for a family vacation with my side of the family;including my parents, sister and her family, and my two brothers and their families. We left on Saturday morning at 5:00am and drove to Las Vegas to meet up with everyone. We went to the Marriott JW resort and went swimming and then headed to Circus Circus and visited the Adventure Dome.  Then that night my Dad took us out to Dinner to a Pizza joint.

Father's Day at Newport Beach

Swimming at Marriott JW

Allie eating her ice cream after Ruby's diner

Tim and I at Ruby's Diner

Allie and Me at Ruby's Diner

Adventure Dome

Allie swimming her heart out at Marriott JW

Swimming at Marriott JW in Las Vegas

Mason at Ruby's Diner

Adventure Dome in Circus Circus

The next morning on Father's Day we drove down to Newport Beach and ate lunch at Ruby's diner on Costal Highway.

We then drove to the condo's in Newport where my parents have a time share right off the Newport Beach. We spent our night eating and walking around the resort.  The next morning I got up around 7am and went running down to the beach and ran 6 miles!! It was amazing! I couldn't stop taking pictures. I embraced the moment while on the beach running. I had the entire beach pretty much to myself!

Writing in the Sand on my 6 mile Run

My Running Path

First Day at Disneyland

Allie and Taylor on "It's a Small World"

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Taylor and Allie

Allie and Belle

Mason on the  Monsters Inc Ride

Handy Manny at California Adventure

The cutest Pixar Parade

Pixar Parade

Allie and Ariel

Tiana and Allie

At Toon Town  in Disneyland

 After breakfast our family,decided to spend a half day at Disneyland and spent the day at California Adventure!  We watched the Pixar Parade and had a great time on all the fun rides!  One Tuesday the entire family went to Disneyland and enjoyed spending the day meeting the princess' and riding on all the fun rides with the family.

The New Cars Land at California Adventure

Wednesday, we spent the morning at Laguna Beach. Allie loved the sand, waves and playing on the beach.  Mason was a little scared of the water..but LOVED the sand!  We had a great time!  That night my Dad got us all tickets to see the Angel's baseball game at the Angel's Stadium. It was the Giants vs Angel's! My dad bought all the gran kids A's hat! It was so darling~What a fun experience! It was a beautiful stadium!! Well, just before the 7th inning Mason and I headed up to walk around and when I lifted him up to walk up the stairs, Mason threw up! I mean on the entire row of people, myself and all over himself. I was horrified and embarrassed to say the least! I just couldn't believe that happened. It was so gross, and I smelt like throw up all night!  Not to mention he had thrown up all over the hotel room the first night, and Allie threw up all over the car on the ride down to Newport. I don't know what was with that, both kids seemed fine. They weren't sick! It was seriously so crazy!

Running in Action on Laguna Beach

Laguna Beach

Mason loved the Sand

Laguna Beach

Laguna Beach

Mason and I at Laguna Beach

At the Angel's Game

Angel's Fan

We spent all of Thursday swimming at the resort, visiting Balboa Island and had ice cream bars and went shopping along main street. We had a great time taking the water ferry to Balboa Island and ate dinner at one of the restaurants along the boardwalk! That night Tim and I had an extra day at Disneyland and so we decided to make it a date night, we put the kids to sleep ( we shared a condo with my parents) and headed to Disneyland for the night! We were able to go on the new cars ride in California Adventure! That was super fun!!

Ferry Boat to Balboa Island

We took our car on the ferry boat to Balboa Island

Our Family at the Beach

Got myself a treat! Balboa Bar

Brooke, My Mom and I on the Beach of Balboa

 Then on Friday our family, decided to go to Universal Studios. I hadn't been there since I was a kid. That was a lot of fun!  The Shrek 4D movie was amazing, the studios tour ride was awesome and the mummy and Jurassic Park ride was fabulous! Tim and I got the child switch passes and were able to take turns on the bigger adult rides! It was great!

Mason loved all the characters! Curious George was one of his Favorite! Allie was not a fan! She refused to take a picture with the characters! (She did take pictures with the princess' though)

The Lorax at Universal Studios

Daddy and Allie at the City Walk

The City Walk in Universal City, Hollywood

Our family in front of Universal Studios

Then we were suppose to drive home on Saturday, but decided since we purchased a city pass that included a day at Sea World...we thought it would be fun to drive to San Diego on Saturday and go to Sea World for the day and then drive back on Sunday!  So, we made that happen..booked a room for the night and spent the day at Sea World..which the kids loved!

Sea World "One Ocean"

Elmo 3D. The kids loved this movie!

Allie loved the shows!

San Diego River

Sea World Otter!

 We had a fabulous time, great memories, fun pictures and priceless moments!

 All good things must come to end....driving home from our great vacation!