What a fun time we had in California. We had a mini Ballard family reunion practically. The airplane trips went well despite waiting an hour in the airplane while they fixed the breaks, but I was blessed because Peyton was asleep while we were on the ground and then woke up when we got into the air. Porter just played with his toys while we waited and then when we got into the air he fell asleep. I couldn't have planned it better myself. Peyton made friends with everyone around him and the flight attendant even took him back to his station and Peyton didn't cry, he loved it! He's a charmer. Everyone said, "Wow, look at those big beautiful blue eyes".
In Placerville we got to go out to Shang Hi, which is my very favorite Chinese restaurant and they have the best sesame seed chicken. It was way better than I remembered. We also were able to attend Becky and James' first time endowment, which was so nice especially to see so much family in the Celestial room. I have a feeling that is what it will be like in the life to come. We went to the Old Spaghetti Factory after wards at like 9:30 pm with everyone who went to the temple with us.
Thursday we went to Fairy Tale Town with mom and Kim. Porter thought it was really fun. It's great how it has stayed exactly the same since I've been there last in Kindergarten. Porter loved the Shoe slide the best. That night I went out to Lucille's BBQ with all of the Skinner boy cousins and Kristina. They were very entertaining and we had a great time together. We got home around 11:30 pm.
Friday we went to see Tarrah, Nick and baby Taven. He was so cute. It was very weird that that was the only time I saw Tarrah the entire trip because usually she planning all of our activities together. She was in so much pain with the C-Section and Mastitis, she could hardly move. Porter played a lot with Shawn's son Jefferson and loved it. The gals went to get manicures and I was going to come, but Porter didn't want me to go, so we were going to take him with us with grandpa too. He decided to stay home, but not five minutes later he flipped out and wanted to go to the store with grandpa. He cried and screamed for 20 minutes. Oh so much fun. We also went out for a girls night bachelorette type thing. Kim, Becky, Kristy and I went to dinner and shopping while the kids stayed home with grandpa and grandma.
Saturday was the sealing. It was very beautiful. I cried of course and my nose ran the rest of the time. I didn't have a tissue, so I kept trying to hide my runny nose. Kinda embarrassing. After the wedding we took pictures and then went to Uncle Glenn's house with Gaylene, Judie, Mom, Dad, Amber, and Kim. Betsey had snacks for us and Porter played outside. We then went to Tahoe Joe's so Mom could get her deep fried artichoke hearts she had been talking about for days. We then went to the church to take some more pictures and Porter had more fun playing with the cousins. We saw a lot of people from the old ward including Jard Swarbrick and his wife and kids, and Aaron and Rachel Vonasek and their baby boy. It was fun catching up on old times with old friends. We were ready to come home when we did and Lynn was ready for us to be home too.
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