Sunday, April 26, 2009

Birthdays, Easter, Vacation

Image We went to Yosemite over Easter break with my brother Bryan and his family. We had a great time and had beautiful weather until the evening before we left. We got in all the hikes and then it started to snow on our way back to the cabin. That night it snowed 1 1/2 -2 feet and made the ride home a bit scary, especially with all the people who are snow driving challenged!!!
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Image Olivia on Easter. After church, she sheds the shoes and loves to get out and play!!!


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Jacob turned 16!!!! Hard to believe. He will get his license in June. He's excited, we are not.


Image Jacob at Shoguns for his birthday dinner with the family and his friends Mitchell and Logan.




Friday, March 20, 2009

Andrew's Baptism

Image Andrew's baptism was small and intimate. It was nice to have both sets of Grandparents come and talk. Hannah sang a beautiful song and Andrew accompanied her. Micheal played the opening song. My brother Bryan and his family came and some of our best friends were there as well. It was great!!!
Image The family

Image Andrew with one of his best buddies Ben


Image Nathan, Andrew and the girls



Image Jonathan and Andrew




Andrew's 8th B-day and Jacob's Court of Honor

Image Andrew has never had a birthday party with friends. We told him when he turned 8 he could have a big one!!! He had about 9 of his friends and they had Battlefield Live come. They set up army barracks and have laser guns. It is a boys dream!!!!!
Image Pizza and cake. It doesn't get much easier.

Image Hannah and the bigger boys had a blast as well!!!!


Image It's hard to believe Andrew is 8 now!!!



Image Jacob and five other boys from our ward got their Eagles. It was a great program and best of all.....now he can drive (Yipeeee....NOT). Jacob had to get his Eagle before he could drive.




Sunday, January 4, 2009

Disneyland

Image I know, who in their right mind would choose to go to Disneyland, the happiest place on earth on New Years Eve Day???? Unfortunatlely ourselves and 80,000 other people did. Jonathan is not a Disneyland lover, but when he heard his brother Matt from Utah and his family would be there he jumped on it!!! We knew it would be so busy, but did get to ride a lot of rides. Jared and his cousins Alex and Garrett were riding the river ride at California adventures in the freezing cold. Luckily it was the last ride of the night as they got really wet.
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Christmas Break Snowboarding!!!

Image Our family went up to Alta Sierra a couple of times for some snowboarding (not me of course since I can barely keep myself up on skis.) The boys have all gotten snowboards over the last year for birthdays and Christmas. They love it and Jonathan has really gotten it down as well. I have decided to try snowboarding next time we go. We will see!!!! Andrew is great......I guess the younger you start them the easier it is???
Image Jacob and Michael in perfect powder!!!

Image Hannah is a pretty good skier, but decided to sled with Olivia and Mom.


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Olivia also had a blast and would sled down by herself. I would follow behind on my tube since they wouldn't let us ride together.


Image Jared is my die hard!!!




Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Fall Carnival

Image Olivia gave our dog Snowy the last couple cheese balls. Snowy then decided to lick the container clean of all cheese ball crumbs. We came outside after hearing a loud noise (which was her head banging against the iron rod fence with the container on) and found a pretty freaked out dog!!! It was pretty funny to everyone but her!!!!
Image Look at this little innocent face (with powdered sugar all over it). Olivia was helping me make frosting. She's more help then you could ever need and it takes about twice as long to do anything. TWO YEAR OLDS........make you tired!!!! It's a good thing they are so cute.

Image Olivia loves "howsies". She got to ride the pony at the American Elementary Carnival and then stalked the poor thing the rest of the night.


Image Hannah climbed clear to the top!!!! It was not an easy climb.



Image The whole purpose of going to the carnival was not to help raise money for the school, but to get cotton candy!!!!!




Saturday, November 1, 2008

HALLOWEEN

Image Jared and Andrew getting ready to got trick or treating.
Image Jared is just a natural. He didn't have to try to hard to be a nerd and was cracking us up all night with the way he walked and talked.

Image Michael (last year was supposed to be his last year trick or treating) talked me into one last year.....and now he's done!!!! He threw together a last minute rocker costume. Luke Tenney was a football player and Dane Anderson was a hippie. They had a great time together.


Image Hannah was supposed to be a butterfly, but looked like some sort of superhero chick and ended up taking off the mask and wings about 10 minutes after we started. People kept asking her what she was and she just replied "a little girl".



Image Livy was a butterfly with the $2.00 left over costume from Albertsons that I got last year. She loved it!!!! Everyone kept telling me how cute "he was".