Lake Powell 2012

We had the best weather and water in the month of June ever!

It made for a super fun trip. 

The only thing missing was Kevin, hopefully some day he will join us again. 

School keeps he pretty busy!

Ashton just loved being with his Grandpa...

by far his favorite thing to do was go for rides in Grandpa little boat.

"Us girls need to stick together"

Izzy and her cousin Maddie swimming. 

 

Ethan learning how to wake board!  This Auntie Sallie was such a great teacher. 

Both Ethan and Cole got up this trip.  Staying up will have to wait until next year:)

Tanoai just had to try as well!!  His little almost 3 year old has no fear!

Cole riding the knee board...it was a new fun toy all the older kids loved.
Cole also tried to slalom, I was so proud!!

Ashton was eating an orange and was super cute. 

Sand sculpture building.

We had it all this year except the sunburns!

The parents rocked the sunscreen!

Isabel turned 5

Isabel turned 5 at the end of our spring break trip. Her birthday was on the day we were to go home.  So we surprised her with a surprise party that morning.

I got up early and went over to grab some donuts, fruit, and a few other things.  We all waited in my moms kitchen to say surprise when she came down stairs.

She loved her donut cake and now wants everyone to have one for their birthday.

Not so awake yet, but very happy!

We finished her party at home with Kevin. 

He had some more presents for her when we got home.

Izzy is very happy to be 5!



Spring break in St. George

I took the kids to St. George for their spring break. It was fun to get away and spend time with family.  Izzy and especially Ashton hung out with the horses as much as they could.

Snow Canyon

One of the days my sisters and I took the kids to Snow Canyon for a picnic and hike.

It was a beautiful spring day and we all had a ton of fun. 

Andresen's Visit

Back in March my sister Sallie and her family came down to visit.  We had a lot of fun with them.  We went to the Zoo, shopped, picked lots of lemons, and went to a baseball game.

Spring is a great time to have visitors and we enjoyed having their family come down!

At Midwestern picking lemons.

Baseball game:

It was cold and windy, but we still have fun.

We almost made it to the end, but the little ones were getting tired.

Mama and Papa J Visit

In January my parents stopped by to hang out.  We love when they can come down and see us. 

We just hung out visited and took the kids to the park.

Played a little ball

Climbed a few trees!

Ashton loves his Grandpa J

Ashton turned 3

Back in February Ashton turned 3.  It is our family party year and we had a great one.

Each kid was in charge a game and they made it tons of fun!

Birthday Breakfast

The cake!



Kevin and Ethan made pin the #95 on Lightning McQueen.

It turned out so cute and Ashton Loved it!



Cole made a treasure hunt and Izzy was in charge of Duck Duck Goose.

Ashton loved his gifts and loved all the attention:)

California for Christmas

For the first day we wanted to have a chance to go to the beach.  Our hotel was only a block away from Carlsbad State beach and we couldn't check in yet, so we headed over.

It was great, and the kids waisted no time getting into the cold water.

It was low tide, which made for some great finds...three star fish attached to some rocks and lots of mussels.

Carlsbad Beach - making a free slideshow

Legoland!

The second day was spent at Legoland. 
The kids had a blast on the rides and looking at all the things made out of Lego's

Legoland California - slideshows

The last day we drove down to San Diego to see some things before heading home.  The plan was to see a air craft carrier museum and The Mormon Battalion Historical Site in Old Town San Diego(which I didn't know that was were we were going)  I went to Old Town with my family as a kid and it was a ton of fun.  I wish we had more time to spend there.  In fact we ended detouring from the plan when driving down I-5 we passed the San Diego temple, so we had to stop.  The kids all thought the temple was so beautiful and we had fun exploring the grounds.

After the temple we headed to Old Town and had a picnic lunch beside the Battalion site.  After we finished lunch we went it for the tour, it was great!  We all had so much fun, that was the last thing we did that day before having to go home.  We really recommend visiting this church site. 
We didn't get to do all the fun things we had planned, so we are definitely going back some day.

San Diego - slide show

We drove home on I-8, which was an adventure.  Only because a couple of times we were really close the the border with Mexico.  We could see the "wall".  With all that is going on in Mexico right now, it did make me a little nervous, I guess. 

We also had to go through a border patrol check point, with dogs that sniffed our car as we slowly passed by. 

It was an interesting experience!