California

This last weekend we went down to California, Sacramento area, for Ryan's brothers wedding. The weather was so hot and nice.. minus the horrible humidity.. and it was a lot of fun having a weekend to get away and spend some time together. The drive was long, but Peyton did awesome. We bought car dvd players for the trip and the broke the morning of our long drive, and the receipt was back at home so we couldn't return them, so we had to do without. We were very nervous driving 10 hours with a 13 month old without the dvd players but we only had about 10 minutes total of crying on our trip. Peyton is such a good baby, so the long drive ended up not being bad at all!

Towards the end of the trip, Peyton was very bored of all of her toys and books so I just keep giving her random things to keep her entertained. She spent about 20 minutes cleaning herself and her baby with baby wipes and then about a half hour shredding 5 baby wipes into tiny little pieces. It kept her entertained, but made a huge mess! She was so cute when she was shredding them because she was so concentrated on ripping them into to tiny pieces, she had her legs crossed and her tongue out. (This is her focused look.)

We got to California Friday afternoon and had to go to a wedding rehearsal since Ryan and Carson were groomsmen. The girls didnt really have much involvement in the wedding so we just took lots of cute pictures of Peyton during the rehersal!

Peyton loves her aunt Jessica! Jessica is one of Peyton's most favorite babysitters and since I have all brothers and no sister-in-laws yet and Jessica is Ryan's only sister, I am so glad Peyton has an aunt as sweet as Jessica! She is so good to her and Peyon loves her!

Peyton loves her Grandma Douglas too!

That night we went to chilies for dinner and then to bed because we were exhausted from the drive. The next morning we went swimming, which was the highlight of Peyton's life. We bought her a pool floaty and she got very attached to it and had to carry it down to the pool all by herself.

She got very impatient waiting for the elevator

It was taking us forever to get to the pool with Peyton trying to carry her floaty so Ryan took it from her and she screamed "dadddddy nooooo!" as loud as she could and chased him through the hotel.

Peyton always tries to get herself dressed and undressed all by herself.. She also tries to put her shoes on and brush her teeth by herself. She tries so hard to be a big girl.

Peyton had sooo much fun swimming!

Ryan attempted to teach Peyton how to jump off the side to him, but she ended up mostly just falling in.

Peyton always has sooo much fun with her daddy!

Peyton loves playing with uncle Carson. Over the weekend Carson taught her to "pound it" it was very cute!

After swimming we went to the Sacramento temple which happened to be just outside our hotel which we were very excited about. The temple was so beautiful. Going to see the temple was our favorite things about the whole trip. We wished we had known we would be so close so we could have planned better to go inside and do a session and some baptisms. 

Saturday night was the wedding. Ryan and Carson had to be there before all the girls did so we did a little shopping at all the fun shopping centers they have! We found my favorite shoe store, DSW Shoes and Tammy bought me some super cute heels for my birthday! I love them! It was fun to meet our niece Aven for the first time, even though we really didn't get to see much of her. Peyton thought her cousin Aven was her baby doll because she is so tiny. She kept holding her arms out and saying "baby.. mine!"

Peyton doesnt get to see her Grampa Douglas very much but she is always very happy to see him. She loves his mustache and whenever he is holding her she cant take her eyes off it.

Peyton was very upset about her Aunt Jessica holding Aven. She kept whining at Jessica and wanting her to hold her instead. She would put her arms between Jessica and Aven and try to push her away, she was a little bit jealous of Jessica holding someone other than her! 

The ceremony started about an hour late, so by that time Peyton was exhausted and this is what she did for the enire ceremony!

Uncle Ryan got a few smiles out of Aven

Ryan is such a good daddy to Peyton. They had so much fun playing and dancing at the reception!

Peyton was sooo tired by the end of the night

But the next morning she sure woke up happy!

We all had a great weekend and we had a lot of fun spending time with Ryan's family. California was beautiful but after seeing how most people live their lives there and after the long drive we were sooo happy to be back home in Boise!