Kaiden's Award!

When they called his name, they said "someday, we will probably see him on the Discovery Chanel!" I'm proud of my little wild life expert!

Family Pics

Disneyland

This was Kaiden's birthday trip to Disneyland. We had such a great time that day. The kids didn't really remember the last trip so this was a lot of fun for them.



This was a trip that we went on a whim... I have to say it was probably the best trip we have every done. Avery got to meet princesses and they boys got to go on some rides with Daddy. We had some great food, and there was no rush. The kids where all so good. It was a great day.



Then there was Uncle Logans Birthday





Pretty much any excuse we can think of we go..:) The kids love it.
Avery's birthday came next.....




We took Avery to the Bibbity Bobbitiy Boutique. She got her hair done and her nails, and a little makeup. She was very excited. It's a small world was open for the holidays. So we got to ride that. Kaiden has been my little roller coaster buddy. I'm so glad he likes them as much as I do....well maybe not as much but he is willing to go on them with me. We still havent done to much in California Disney, but we will work on that :)

That's the end of the trips so far. Its been a lot of fun to see Disneyland through the kids eyes. They get so excited!! I'm sure there will be a lot more trips to come....

Again, so long between posts...

I guess that could be a good thing right???? I am so far behind...Lets see, Halloween is a good starting point :) We went to Brandon and Becky's this year, which has been turning out to be a tradition. When we all lived in Utah that is where you could find us all. We have a great dinner, then hit the streets. This year was no different! The kids love to go out with the cousins and they have the best neighborhoods to trick or treat in. We had some fantastic candy this year I have to say. The kids made out pretty well...(which really means, I got to eat a lot of great candy) Kaiden wanted to be a knight. We had a really hard time finding a knight costume. We even went to the specialty store with no luck. So we got the closest thing to it that we could find. He was a Gladiator. Avery was Alice in wonderland (thanks to Aunt Brooke who works for leg Ave.) Brinley was a flower and Ry was Scooby Doo.

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Kaidens Birthday was on the 29 of October. We got him a great little cake that was shaped like a monster. He thought it was great. We also started the Disneyland tradition. We did little goody bags filled with candy for the class which I'm sure the parents loved 2 days before Halloween.:)


So now its time to make dinner but when the kids go to bed I'll have to post more...I hope :)

Katie Clips :

My friend Katie makes really cute clips for her daughter. I have always admired them...now she sells them..check it out!

Pumpkin Patch and Bunkbed :)

Today, Avery's class went to Lane Farm Pumpkin Patch. I got to go with themand I brought Ry and Brinley of course. The class got there at 9, I was suppose to be there too, but I got lost and got there at 9:30 instead. Avery was really excited that I was there with her class. I got to meet all her little friends! She got to ride the bus, so she was pretty pumped. After the pumpkin patch we got to go to the park. Ryland got to run off all his energy so that was nice. That means a long nap!! Here are some pictures from today...






Here is a picture of the new bunk beds we got for the kids. When we get into a place it will be the boys bed. It has a trundle, so we will have an extra bed for everyone who wants to visit :)


I actually took the kids to the pumpkin patch on a whim this week too. Before Avery's class went. That's why they aren't put together. We got Ry and Kaiden pumpkins on this trip. It was a lot of fun. The kids got to see the farm animals that they had. They had a little area where they could play in hay. That was fun trying to get that out of Avery's hair. We got to go on a hay ride together around the farm. It was so hot that day. I couldn't believe it, we are in mid-October and it was 92. CRAZY, and I love it!









Poor little Ry, we where getting the kids ready for bed and he insisted on putting Avery's swim suite on...I don't think he will ever live this one down!!

P.S. that is a Halloween bucket on his head!

Where to begin?

Again, sorry for the lack of blogs...I'm not even sure that there are any readers left out there!!

Well Santa Barbara has been a lot of fun. Especially this summer. We had many trips to the beach and hanging out with cousins who live only an hour away, 3 trips to Utah and back. We had 2 weddings and a visit with Nana and Papa. We had a trip to Fresno for a baby blessing, and got to see great grandparents and Aunts and Uncles. We had school start (blogged about earlier) and zoo trips. Like I said, crazy/fun times.




This was taken at our favorite spot, Foster freeze. We usually hit it up after a beach trip. The kids love it. Ryland actually isn't to crazy about ice cream, but loves to go anyway. You can see by the picture they have a great time. Avery is super funny. She thought she would be silly and make a crazy face. We laughed so hard when we had seen what she had done.



This was Avery one night. I came into check on the kids and saw she had fallen asleep with my brush.



My 2 girls, Avery is always asking to hold Brinley and always wants us to take pictures of it. Brin really loves to watch Avery. She always smile when she sees her. I can't wait for Brinley to get a little older and they can play together.




Now that Avery goes to school all day, I have a lot of time with little Ry. I took him to the Zoo one day. We had a little Mommy and Ryland date. This was him watching the monkeys. Its his favorite. We had lunch together and walked around for a while. Came home and had a nap! It was a great day.



So this was a REALLY fun thing. We woke up at 1:30 in the morning to a car alarm going off. Jeremy got up to go see what it was. We didn't think anything of it and went back to bed. In the morning we where getting ready to go out for the day and we found our window busted out. In the living room there was glass everywhere and a window busted out too. I was SO mad. I couldn't believe it. I thought we lived in a great neighborhood. We called the police and they pretty much told us the only thing we could do was to come in on Monday and file a report. So much for them...We took my car in to the dealership to have it fixed. Unfortunately our deductible was $500 and the insurance company quoted us $250. Ok, fine it had to be fixed and there wasn't anyone to blame or to make them pay for it, so we got it done. I went to pick up the car 2 days after they said it would be done (because they didn't have it done) and the bill was a whopping $600...what?!?!? I called the insurance company to tell them that they quote was WAY off and they told me, "did you go to our preferred glass company?" Nobody told me about that. The guy apologized and said sorry about that. Next time go through them and they will beat or match our quote. GREAT! So that was that.

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Another picture of Brinley. I realized I don't have a lot of pictures of Kaiden on here. Ill be working on that :)



This is Avery walking to school with me.


Avery with her golf clubs. She and Kaiden go every Saturday with Grandpa and Dad and hit balls at the range. Kaiden is going to start up junior golf.



We went to Fresno for Cortney's little boy's blessing. We saw some of the Great Grandparents. These are some of the pictures from the trip.



I just got back from St. George for a little visit with my Mom and Dad. We took some new pictures of Brinley. I can't believe she is 3 months old now. She is a really good baby. She pretty much sleeps through the night. She does have a fussy time, as we like to call it. But she gets over it quickly. I'm really lucky this time around. :)