Sweet Lillian turns four!!!!!

I can't believe that Lillian is four. I used to feel sad every year she would get older, but now that she is older, I am loving every second. She loves to do so many fun things, has fairly predictable behavior and is so sweet and funny! I just love her to pieces. Her and Eleanor are best buddies. They play with their little dollhouse together all day practically and don't fight often. They're so sweet together and so much fun. So blessed.  

Lillian's birthday was a lot of fun! She had school on her birthday, and daddy made sure to take the day off. He went into school to celebrate with her. She loves when daddy goes to school with her. Such a great daddy! 

We had her party about a week later, and it was princess, Dora and Minnie Mouse themed. :). Mama made a Dora cake and we ordered one just in case it didn't turn out. Ha ha. We had some fun friends over and were lucky enough to have grandma Cshell in town for the party, making it that much more fun. (We also had a great time with her visiting!). Eleanor and Caroline also had fun at the party. So lucky to have such sweet friends and so blessed to have the sweetest girls and husband ever. :)

California dreamin!

Wow! We had an amazing trip to California a few months ago, and I can't believe I haven't written about it until now. We drove down to San Clemente with several stops on the way. On the way down, we stopped in Eugene, Oregon, Fairfield, California, and pismo beach California. We thought the driving part would be miserable with a 3 (almost 4) year old, a 2.5 year old and a 9 month old who screamed on the way to even the grocery store. We were so lucky that the driving part was part of the fun! We had lots of fun movies to watch, songs to sing and stories to tell. The girls had tons if yummy snacks and had so much fun. All the hotels we stayed at had pools so we got to enjoy swimming on our way down! The girls had so much fun, and so did we. We loved playing on the beach so much too. We stayed in San Clemente, California, which is an awesome little beach town. The girls thought everything we did was SO fun, even just going to Walmart to get some beach towels. They slept better than we could've asked, and were so well behaved as usual. We surprised them with a day at Disneyland, and thinking about it seems like a dream. It was just perfect and so fun. They met some characters there, and went on a lot of rides. Even Caroline enjoyed the rides! Winnie the Pooh, dumbo, small world and teacups were their favorite. They also adored the fun parade at the end of the day. We did something fun every single day, and wish we were back on vacation now. Such fun memories and such a perfect little trip. Can't wait to do it again with our three little beach bums!