The Reed Family: California Trip!

Hudson and I took a quick little trip across the country last weekend to see Carrie and Andres and celebrate baby Rooney turning 1! We had a super early flight out on Friday morning...we had to be up by 4 and out the door by 4:45. Well Mr. Hudson was just so excited that he was up at 3 am and ready to go! Whew! It was going to be a long day. Who else looks this good at 5 am?!?!?

The great thing about having such an early flight is that we got to California by 10, so we had basically the whole day. We might have been a bit groggy, but we powered through it! I was very proud of my big boy. He is just such a rock star and is so go with the flow. I was SO glad he accompanied me on this trip!

We visited for a little while and then since we were 2 blocks from the beach, we decided to head down an "look" at it!

"Looking" turned into getting our feet wet (it was FREEZING by the way)...

Then the pants just had to come off so he could go in further...

And then that turned into swimming in his undies! I was clearly not prepared for beach time in November, but that didn't matter one bit!

We had so much fun with Rooney. She loved the beach too!

My favorite picture!

Hudson literally fell asleep at dinner that night. Thankfully we had decided to just stay in because we knew the crash was going to come at some point, and it came at about 6:30. I thought that was pretty good for a boy who had been up since 3 am (that's 1 am California time!).

The next day was Rooney's party day! When we woke up, we had to hit up Sidecar Donuts. If you are near Newport Beach, you HAVE to go to Sidecar. I literally drool just thinking about those donuts. The one to get is the butter and salt donut. It is SOOOO good! Then it was football watching and party prepping the rest of the day. Oh and Hudson and I snuck in another trip to the beach...this time to where the surfers were! We had fun watching the surfers and once again, Hudson took a dip in the ice cold water. He is ca-razy!

Then it was time to celebrate this princess! They had a Mexican party theme and Carrie went all out. It was so cute! They don't have too many friends with kids, so it was mainly adults, so they had a taco man come and make tacos and a salsa bar, and of course had a margarita bar! So fun! Hudson made friends with a little 5 year old that was there and they just played their little hearts out! Carrie had set out a stomp rocket, a ball pit, a tee ball set, and of course bocce ball and cornhole! There was definitely something for everyone!

I was loving the party lights they set up...

Finally it was time for the princess to have her cake!

I don't think there was ever any doubt that she would tear into the cake! She LOVED it.

Sunday morning, we decided to go to Disneyland! Poor Rooney and Andres stayed home, so just Carrie, Hudson and I went. We were sad to say goodbye to her for the day, but it was going to be a fun day!

It was a beautiful day! This was on the main street. I have to say that the castle is not nearly as impressive as Disney World...actually, it was a little dinky.

Hudson really had no interest in the characters. I was so sad...but also very thankful that we went to Disney World when he was 5 and was all about the characters then. I made him take a picture with Goofy!

Hudson had us wrapped around his little fingers. I absolutely hate Splash Mountain...like my hands start sweating just thinking about it. I just do not like that drop at the end! However, Hudson is such a daredevil and he was not going to let us off the hook. It was pretty chilly at this point in the day too, so you can imagine how we felt after we got soaking wet too. :) All for our little buddy...

He loves his Aunt Carrie!

We literally rode almost every ride in that park! It's smaller than Disney World, and it was not that crowded, so we never waited for too long.

The Matterhorn was Hudson's favorite ride all day. We started with it, and ended with it! And we did Thunder Mountain twice too! Space Mountain was unfortunately closed...bummer!

This was the little castle up close!

The one ride we waited on for longer than 30 minutes was Indiana Jones. We got all the way to the front and the ride had to shut down. We were not leaving though! Thankfully, they got it back up and running in about 15 minutes. It was definitely one of our favorites and was worth the wait!

The teacups is another one that Carrie and I could have done without...

Disneyland was all decorated for Christmas and was so beautiful! We even caught the Christmas parade on the way out and it got us in the Christmas spirit for sure!

We had such a fun day and a great end to our trip! I'm so glad we had the opportunity to go for the day! I love all things Disney. We were sad that Harrison wasn't with us, and it is definitely top secret that we went. He has NO idea and hopefully it will stay that way! He was just not old enough to make that kind of trip. Hudson brought him home a Darth Vader light saber though and he thinks it's the greatest thing ever.

Carrie showed Hudson how to use a selfie stick!

Hudson was sacked out on both flights on the way home. This boy was exhausted! Heck, I was right there with him! We got home really late Monday night and then it was back to school and work early Tuesday morning. We have spent the weekend trying to catch up on our sleep!