Taylor Family in JUNE

Unfortunately for half of the month of June, myself and the kids were having fun in Arizona and California, while John was stuck in Kansas City. He is not allowed any time off in June or July, so he had several days without us here with him.

We had a lot of fun in Arizona. We spent time at the Children's museum, learning how to train your dragon, spending lots of time with cousins, and playing outside and in the pool.

Here is Grandma Jones with 4 of her grandsons.

The 2 babies were sleeping. All of the boys were smiling, that is amazing!

Jude loved to swim in the tub. Him and his cousins spent hours outside playing in the water!

And little O, she just hung out, watching all of her crazy cousins play!

Here we are hanging out, after a day at the pool.
Olive is showing off her cute swim suit from Grandma Taylor!

Jude loved playing with his bubble gun and catching all the bubbles!

Here is the group of boys! They were inseparable. Jude could not get enough of them.
Here they are enjoying some pizza on the patio!

Our little girl is on the go, she is loving to crawl around and pull herself up! She can even stand for a few seconds all by herself! She thinks she is pretty cool.

After a week in Arizona, we left to San Diego for a fun week of hanging out on the beach and relaxing, well, as much as we could with the kids anyway!

Jude could spend all day playing in the water and sand.
It was nice, our beach house was right on the bay.

Every night bath time was quite the circus. All the kids were filthy and they would all love to play and splash in the tub! The picture of Olive above, reminds me of Jude. And the picture below is of all the boys ( minus little Alex), it was awesome that we were able to get the older boys to all sit still for a minute.

We spent some time at Belmont park, and here are Jude and Jacob riding the carousel.

One of the boys' favorite activity: to get buried in the sand!

Little Olive loved the sand, she loved to crawl all around in it!
We tried to contain her on a blanket, but she did what made her happy!

Here is mommy and girl on one of our morning walks on the beach!

The boys all loved to run in and out with the waves, they would try and jump over the waves! Jude was in heaven! He loved the beach!

Here he is sporting his sun glasses.

After a hard day on the beach, Jude passed out in my arms.

So he enjoyed a nice relaxing nap under the shade on the sand.

We had such a fun time, as always it was nice to spend time with family.
But it is also nice to come home, and see John and be home.

Much needed update for May

Yes, we are still alive and doing well. I have been a HUGE slacker.
So I will be doing a few posts to update you.
May-June- and July.
So let's get started!

Hope everyone had a great Cinco De Mayo, we sure did. We had a Cinco de "Mustache" party. We enjoyed yummy Mexican food, a pinata, friends and of course mustache's!

John took Jude on his first father and son camp out with the stake!
It was a little cold, but they still had lots of fun!

Mid May Grandma Jones came to visit. We had so much fun playing together. We loved spending the day at Deanna Rose, watching Jude Fish, feed the goats and ride a pony!

And here is cute little Olive, she is loving to stand up!
She is always happy hanging out with the family!

We were lucky enough to leave my mother (grandma Jones) home with the kids while John and I enjoyed a get a way to New york city. A pediatric dental convention brought us to the big apple, but we ended up playing together a lot more than he spent at the convention. We had such a wonderful time playing, while unfortunately my mom spent the weekend caring for sick kids. :(

We spent one night on an air craft carrier on the Hudson River.
At dusk, we watched Top gun while enjoying beautiful views of the city!

A few days before we left, I was looking for things to do in NYC for the weekend we were there, and I found that Lady Gaga would be in central park performing for Good Morning America while we were there. Why Not?! So we gathered in central park with hundreds of other crazy monsters to watch several performances!

Here she is, Lady Gaga rehearsing before she goes live.

While we were in New York, we went to eat at several famous and delicious bakeries, and deli's. Here I am with some treats from Magnolia Bakery. We enjoyed them before heading into our Broadway show that night- 'Catch me if you can'.

After NYC, my mom went home and brought Jude back with her. She would take him and her other grand sons to Aspen Grove- a family camp in Utah. So my sister and her baby came out and spent a week here with us and Olive. We had so much fun. We ate, did some crafts, shopped, we relaxed and we even went camping with some friends!

We had fun camping with our friends, the camping spot was awesome, and allowed all the kids to run around and have fun! Here is the group of girls!

And here are the men!

Alex ( my sister's youngest) and Olive hanging out in the tent
after their first experience camping. They both did well.

So that is it with May.

Stay tuned for June- fun in Arizona and San Diego!

EasterTime

Happy Easter Everyone.
We had a great day filled with lots of fun spending time together as a family. We also enjoyed a few fun events prior to Easter. And of course, we brought them to sit on the Easter bunnies lap. Jude did well, considering last year, the picture was of him screaming and reaching for mommy. He sat still, no crying, but definitely no smiling either. Here is a run down of our Easter happenings.

Visiting the good old Easter bunny in their Easter outfits.

On Saturday we had a fun little Easter egg hunt here in the town homes. Jude loved gathering a few eggs, and of course eating the candy inside. Olive also loved playing with the eggs, and hanging out. She loves being outside.

Jude got lucky this year and received a few fun gifts from the Easter bunny and from grandma's.

And Thanks to Grandma Taylor, I think Olive may be the hottest girl on the beach this summer!

Happy Easter Everyone.
Yes, next year we will be dying eggs, this year we ran out of time!

And I included a few fun shots of Olive and Jude. As i was cleaning the house the other day, she got stuck under the chair and was making some cute faces so I had to snap a few, and of course Jude had to sneak in too!

Disneyland Fun

This year for the Jones Family trip we went to Disneyland, my dad really wanted to go and see all the kids have fun. In fact a few weeks before he died, he had told Olive that he was so excited to see her at Disneyland. The trip was already planned, so although my dad was not here to join us, we still went and we had a blast. All of the kids LOVED it, and I myself am a kid at heart, and think I loved it even more. It is such a magical place.

We had a 3 day park hopper pass- for Disneyland and California Adventure. We also broke up the week with a few beach days, and went to Knott's berry farm. It was a very busy week with long days. but we had so much fun! Surprisingly the adults were able to have fun too, we went on lots of rides, thanks to the fast pass and rider switch passes.
Thank you so much Mom ( and Dad).

Here we are at the Newport Beach temple, what a beautiful and special place.

Our little family at the beach, it was both Jude and Olive's first time. Jude loved running from the waves with his cousins, flying kites and building sand castles, and Olive loved eating the sand. - we continued to see the sand for a few days in her diapers :)

Olive was just as happy as can be, after all she was in the happiest place on earth. She was a trooper, playing, sleeping and eating with a smile all week.

Jude loved all the rides, he could not wait for a new ride. It was so cute to see how excited he was. He was a good kid too. He is so happy when he is with his cousins.

We found Goofy at Toontown, Jude was so excited, but once we got close he was a little scared.
This was on the first day, by the end of the week, he loved the characters.

Jude and Jackson playing on Goofy's car.

As you can see, it was Spring Break for quite a few people. It was crowded, but we had a good schedule (yes, I planned our day out- I'm weird like that) so we did not have to wait in crazy lines.

One night we ate at Goofy's Kitchen where we enjoyed a nice meal with a lot of characters. Goofy, Minne Mouse, Chip (from chip and dale), the mad hatter, Aladdin, Pluto etc.
It was so much fun. Jude was in LOVE with Minne mouse, he would walk around the restaurant and follow her. It was so cute.

Here are the boys at Knott's Berry Farm, getting ready for their first ride of the day!

It was a nice trip, it is always fun to vacation with family.