Happy Family

We had a fun trip to California, and I have come home with an added appreciation for my sweet family. I sat and watched Adam play with the kids last night, and got a bit teary. I am so lucky and blessed to have such a sweet husband and loving kids. They really get a long great and are such good friends.

What a neat man I've got. I think I will keep him! And Audrie is growing to be such a pretty little girl. We are in big trouble when she gets to dating age.

We have such energetic happy boys that are always giving me hugs and kisses. They are so much fun!!1

Our California Trip

We went to California for Grandma Mathews 81st birthday celebration. We stopped in St. George for dinner and the kids had a race in the parking lot with dad.

Jacob found the candy at Grandma's party and stuffed it in his pocket, we found melted chocolate later that night coming out of his pants, and were glad that it was just chocolate.

On our way we stayed at the fairfield in Las Vegas. We will not be staying in Vegas again. Too many questions of why the pictures are immodest. We tried to keep them occupied by looking at other things, but they were still tainted.

My cute boys!

And my silly girl who decided to get a REALLY BIG piece of cake at the party. Shes so cute.

Beautiful San Diego

One of our favorite parts of the trips are the hotel stays. We really like new hotels and swimming in the pools.

We got to eat breakfast at the Pam Pam cafe. It was fun to have pancakes with grandma and grandpa.

This is a picture of the bridge we took to Coronada Island. It was a giant bridge that went right over the ocean. It was beautiful, but a little scary.

I love the San Diego temple. It is so beautiful and the grounds were covered with Jasmine flowers that smelled so pretty. The kids were happy to get out of the car after the drive from Grandma Mathews house.

What handsome boys!

SeaWorld 2009

SeaWorld was a fun adventure. We went with Grandma, Grandpa, Jamie, Brad and kids.

This is the Journey to Atlantis ride that Audrie "was not even scared on". They liked this ride the best.

We liked watching the shows. This is at the Dolphin show just before we got soaked. I was the only one who stayed in my seat the entire time. It felt good on a hot day, but maybe not dolphin water.

This is the shamu show. The kids have been playing like they are at Seaworld ever since we got home. They thought it was cool to see a real whale.

The kids rode on some fun kiddy rides with Daddy, Grandma, and Grandpa. They wouldn't let me go on anything because I was pregnant. I certainly thought this ride looked dangerous.

Disneyland June 2009

We knew we were crazy for attempting Disneyland in June, but Adam is addicted. The first 1 and 1/2 hours of the day were perfect. We rode on all of the rides in fantasyland. The park quickly filled up, and we had to leave in the middle of the day to rest and recoup. We came back in the evening for fireworks and a few more rides. We later found out that California residents with season passes could only go on that particular day and the rest of the summer was blocked out for them, which explained the rediculous crowds. Oh well we still had fun and were reminded why we go in January.

The kids love the teacups ride. Daddy usually takes them by himself, but I actually went twice this time and didn't get sick. They liked the little Alice in Wonderland house outside of the ride.

The "horseys" as Isaac calls them, is always a fun ride. We walked on most of the rides in the early morning.

This is a picture on the Mark Twain boat. Isaac had been talking about going on the boat but didn't want to get on the pirate boat because it was too scary. We liked the chance to rest awhile. The kids were quite tired after a full day before of Sea World.

We love getting the pineapple ice cream outside of the tiki room. This is one of Adam's favorite traditions and has become one of the kids favorite too.

We had a lot of fun cousins at Riley's baptism celebration. After we went to the park and had tacos and played at the ball field. All of the cousins sat in the bleachers and cheered " Riley, Riley" when he got up to bat. He felt special.

Here are a few more of the people that were at the baptism.

We had fun watching the three amigos playing by themselves for most of the afternoon.

Riley is now Baptised. He was so cute. He looked in the mirror in the bathroom after and said that he looked different. Later in his journal he wrote that yesterday he didn't look the same because today he has the Holy Ghost.

We were so excited to have our first child baptized. It is a neat feeling and a special event. It was hillarious because a lot of things went wrong. There was a big traffic accident that made a lot of people really late, and even prevented Grandpa Spangler to get there in time. Grandma Spangler got the stomach flu and couldn't come. During Uncle August's talk, baby Davey pulled the fire alarm, but in the end it all worked out and Riley was able to be baptized. That is what really matters.

We had a lot of family come to support Riley and he felt really special.

Riley is 8 and he's so much bigger! He called it the week of Riley. At school they had field day on his birthday and they played games the entire day. I took cookies in to his class and he thought it was all for him. We had his birthday party the next day which was the last day of school. It was a bit rainy weather, but it cleared up just enough to have squirt gun fights and go down the waterslide. He was so excited to be eight but the best was that he was going to be baptised the next day.

Riley and his class have been working on a Yellowstone exibit. He is able to bring his family in and he is the ranger who shows us everything they made. There is an exibit for bears, wolves, moose, bison, coyote, owls, and there is even a gyser and mud pot. He had fun showing Grandma and Grandpa Tervort, and Kaylee after Audrie's Kindergarten Graduation. I think he is the cutest ranger ever!

Audrie Graduates From Kindergarten

She was the cutest singer of them all! She did the actions like a star and was the prettiest little princess. It made me happy to know that kindergarten is over, but she cried when they had a slide show of all the fun things they did.

Grandpa and Grandma Tervort, Kaylee, Mom, Dad, Jacob, and Isaac were all there to cheer her on. Riley still had school but we saw him later that day for lunch and to see his Yellowstone exibit.

It's a GIRL

We just went to the ultrasound and found out that Audrie is getting a sister. We took all of the kids with us and they had fun seeing the pictures on the tv. Riley was a little disappointed because he wanted a full basketball team, but we convinced him that girls can be good at basketball too. We went out to dinner at Texas Roadhouse to celebrate. YIPEE!