San Jose for Valentine's Day!

Morgan happened to have a 5 day break from school in February.  Plus, Brian and I don't celebrate Valentine's Day (I'll post about that later).  So, that left a perfect opportunity for a road trip!  We had to leave Daddy at home to work and study, but, hopefully, he'll get to come on all future road trips!

As usual, I was extremely anxious to travel 6 1/2 hours alone, with 3 kids.  But, also as usual, I received many tender mercies from my Heavenly Father as we traveled.  The kids were mostly good (thank you, DVD player!), and a gas station appeared right when I realized I had completely miscalculated my mileage and could possibly run out of gas in the middle of nowhere.  And, it was a Chevron, to boot!  Yay for me!

Once we arrived, my tensions eased up, as we had a great time with Alie, Tyler, and Jack.  Man, I wish we had cousins closer!  But, on the plus side, we are close to Grammy and Grandpa, so, when cousins visit, we get to join in on the fun!

Enjoying mustache lollipops in the backyard!

Carson and Jack loved pulling each other around in the wagon!  

It was $2 Jamba Juice week, so we took the kids for a treat!

Yummy!  I haven't had Jamba in ages!

We spent a day at Happy Hollow, and, lucky Tyler got to go on the roller coaster 3 (or more) times with the girls.  They can't wait to be big enough for Magic Mountain!  But, I didn't get any pictures, sorry!

Here they are on one of the old-school swing carousel rides.  They loved it!

 And, just for fun, Carson on the rocking horse.

And, now, more photos, courtesy of my sister's GOOD camera.  Yes, point and shoot is nice and pocket size, but, it makes for terrible photos.  Here are some better ones to enjoy!

The bug ride.  Jack wanted to go on it, until he actually got on it.  And, he proceeded to cry the entire ride.  Poor guy!  The girls enjoyed it!

Crazy kids!  L-R: Morgan and Rae, Sadie and Lulu, Carson and Fillmore, Jack and Leonard.

Carson was so excited to hold the ticket!  Too bad it wasn't his!  He's still free!

Smile = scrunchy face!  Some day, I'm sure I'll look back and miss that little face!

All the kids. But a little more serious this time.  Well, as serious as cousins having fun can be.

Alie got a picture of the roller coaster.  The girls had their arms up the whole ride.  It was the real deal (not really, but, they had a great time)!

Just finished chasing Uncle Tyler through the maze.

We only brought one stroller, and, only one seat for the stroller, so Carson improvised when Jack took his spot.  Still don't know why we didn't grab the doubles kit, but, hey, it made for a cute picture!