California

Well, this month has been INSANE to say the least. It started off with finals for me. Luckily I had prepared myself and flew right through most of them with no problems :) The day of my last final, we flew out to California with Cory, Lindsay, Brooklyn, and Kevin. Naturally, our flight was delayed and delayed again. This would have been perfectly fine, but the plan was to surprise Kandi, Carson, and Maddi (who, obviously, didn't know we were coming) which was becoming a difficult task since it was getting late and we were a few hours behind schedule. Luckily, it all worked out just fine! Kandi and Maddi were surprised and shocked to see us walk into their living room. Carson, however, wasn't because a couple hours before we got there, Marci asked him if we were there yet... nice one Marci! haha

Of course, we left our camera home on most days, but we remembered to bring it with us once! We got to California late Wednesday night so the fun mostly started the next day. Thursday was the only sunny day we had while we were there so we were lucky we chose that day to go to the beach!

Yes, we desperately need a tan! This was the only picture I got of Darren and I at the beach... thanks for posing for the picture Darren...

Maddi is one brave girl! Not gonna lie Darren... that's kind of a weird face...

As I said earlier, that was the only sunny day. Apparently we brought the rain with us because the day after we left, it was hot and sunny... real cool. But we still had tons of fun! We got to go to Kandi's first ultrasound, saw Maddi's Christmas performance at school, went out to eat a lot, went shopping, watched movies (even got to see Twilight for a second time; way better than the first!), went to Sea World (got to touch a dolphin for the first time!), got in the hot tub most nights, and ate lots and lots of junk food! I know we did more... I just can't remember at the moment. Anyways, it was amazing! Thanks Ryan and Cindy for making this trip possible! You guys are amazing! Hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!