California Love

From August 4 - 10 the Niessner family headed to California to visit my sister Laura and her family. Our trip didn't start out as planned, but we had a great time anyway. We were scheduled to fly out of Pittsburgh at 1:30 pm, however, Delta had other plans. After being delayed, for an hour, we landed in Atlanta at 4:00 pm with 20 minutes to reach our connecting flight. We ran though the airport like Noel Devine running down the football field. Giving it our best effort and running with a car seat and 4 year old, we missed our flight by 5 minutes. This started our long day in the Atlanta airport. We were on stand by for the 7:15 flight, which we didn't get on, then our 9:50pm flight was delayed until 10:30 pm. We did not land in California until midnight west coast time. We then had to drive 2 1/2 hrs to Laura's house. On the bright side we did manage to get our luggage and the rest of our trip was wonderful. Here are the pictures from our trip.

Here is the reason for our trip to CA, our new nephew Luke David

Getting ready to go though security

The girls' first plane ride

Mommy and Charlotte on the plane

On the other side of this sand dune is Mexico

Those dots are Leo and Drea

Luke and I swimming in the Colorado River in Yuma, AZ



Drea running in the river

These next two pictures are my favorites from our trip, I promise she only looks sweet.

This is at a park that was right around the corner from Laura and Leo's house, we must of rode by it 15 to 20 times and no one was ever playing at it. I guess that was because it was 112 degrees outside. We managed to go at 10am one morning it was only 95!

Drea enjoying the Pacific Ocean

Family Photo

Drea buried up to her neck, this was fun, until it was time to clean the sand off of her.

Pictured from left to right: Melissa (Leo daughter), Leo (Laura's boyfriend), Luke (in Leo's arms), Laura, Stacey, Drea, Andy, and Charlotte