LEGOLAND CALIFORNIA

Talk about fun for the entire family...Legoland is an awesome and unique park good for little kids and even big ones like us!  I guess now that I'm a "boy mom," I'm automatically supposed to love legos, but I have to say even if you're not, and not into legos, you will still enjoy this place.  First of all, it's huge and there are so many rides and so much to do.  Secondly, everything around the park is constructed out of legos from small little animal statues to a giant replica of the New York City skyline and the Taj Mahal (and there are signs telling you how many legos it took to construct from hundreds to tens of thousands).  There were plenty of small rides that my kids could enjoy, and there were a lot of rides that Rich and I had so much fun on.  We went on a train ride, drove lego cars, went on a plane ride and a boat ride, to name a few.  The place is so colorful, and there is so much beautiful natural scenery around too- it's so pretty!  Now I have to say, I've heard from a lot of people and even read it a lot online, Legoland is pretty expensive.  In fact, the price to get into Legoland is pretty comparable to what it costs to get into Disneyland- which is sort of crazy.  That being said, I really do think it's worth every penny because the place is enormous.  There are ways you can reduce the price of your entrance fee like going in the afternoon and only staying for two hours.  But, since we planned our trip that we only had one day to be there we figured why not go for it.  Legoland was amazing, and if you have kids between 4-10 years old, you really should check this place out!

UN-WELCOME WELCOME HOME!

Hey everyone!  We are back from a week-long vacation to California!  We went to San Diego and to Disneyland in Anaheim, and boy did we have fun!  We checked out the San Diego Botanic Garden, The San Diego Zoo, Legoland, and of course Disneyland and California Adventure.  I am working on plenty of posts about the trip which I'll have coming up next week.  I'm still unpacking, re-settling in, doing laundry...you know, all the not-so-fun parts of coming back from vacation.    In the meantime, I just wanted to tell you a quick little unpleasant story that happened to us when we got home.  After a long flight with two kids 3 and under (which turned out to be better than I thought), we got home late Saturday night to a house that was only 40 degrees!  Yup, our heat wasn't working, so we had to check into a hotel close to home.  It was the worst, after a week of sleeping in hotels all you want to do is sleep in your own bed, but nope!  Thankfully, we got our heat working on Sunday and were able to return home, and then boom- we were hit with another snow storm on Monday.  Talk about un-welcome welcome home!  Take us back to sunny, California!!!

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Hey guys! We are on our first real vacation as a family-of-four this week...we jet setted to sunny California to see family and friends and do fun stuff with the kids!  We are exploring great new towns, trying awesome restaurants, and discovering lots of amazing things that I can't wait to tell you all about when we get back.  In the meantime, I'll probably be sort of MIA this week, but if you want to follow us along on our trip...check out my daily posts on Instagram!  Hope you're all having a great week! :-)