Friday, August 10, 2012

Newport Beach Jackson Reunion

We flew into Long Beach Tuesday night, and came to the Marriott Coast Villas just in time to eat a homemade dinner with the whole Jackson family (minus Colby). Livy just absolutely loved being surrounded by 8 other kids who love her and wanted to play with her. It was so fun to watch her run around with them and play. Wednesday we spent at Disneyland, and loved every minute. Yesterday we took it nice and easy. We exercised, went to the pool, took naps, and ate a big dinner with everyone. Then we got the opportunity to be apart of Josh receiving the Melchizedek Priesthood. Bob and Sue got special permission from their stake president, so they had each brother take a few minutes to share some thoughts and scriptures they had about being an Elder, serving a mission, and holding that power of the priesthood. It was so special to be there all together as a family for that moment.  


Then today was still pretty chill. We had a slow morning, took some family pictures, went to Avila El Ranchito for lunch. It was awesome authentic Mexican food. We came home, took naps, the men went golfing, we helped with dinner, then we had a Princess birthday party for Ella's 4th birthday. Livy was so obsessed with the princesses everywhere.  










I just had to throw in these crazy pictures of Livy. Her new favorite game is "sleep". She makes mommy go to sleep, then daddy, then grammy, grandpa, and anyone else in the room go to sleep. Then Livy goes to sleep. She shuts her eyes so tight, and it makes me laugh so hard every time. It's the cutest thing ever. In this picture Livy is asleep, and so are Mickey and the gang. 



 Beach day tomorrow with the Grows and Perdues! Yay! 

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