First Weekend of Summer

I picked Ashley up from her last day of school & we went to go PLAY! (On Your Mark-Get Set-Go!!! WELCOME SUMMER!)

One of my brothers+his family were up at Snowbird for the week. We joined him for an afternoon. The kids love being with their cousins! It was so amazing at Snowbird! So pretty! Why don't we go up there more often?! It was warm enough to go swimming in the big pool and the kids loved having a hot tub outside the door on the balcony of the room.

Sophie discovered toilet paper.

We didn't stay too late at Snowbird because we had Jimmy's 9:15pm hockey game to go to. Welcome to summer hockey-Go BMA!

Saturday was filled with planting a garden. Jimmy's parents plant a garden & we help provide labor for the garden. The kids help out with planting seeds, watering, and hopefully some weeding. Can't wait till yummy food starts growing!

Sunday, we met our goat "cousins", Duke & Pappi. Cousin Cooper got some goats in his West Jordan backyard (per his other Grandma). So we met the goat cousins Sunday.

What a Busy, Super Weekend! Its great cause school is out for the kids & Jimmy......yes....I still enjoy the fact that Jimmy is done with school. I am still happy he has graduated! And since that first weekend, we have been running almost non-stop all 3 weeks of summer and we LOVE IT!

Memorial Day 2010

First Camping Trip of the Season!

Memorial Day was spent at Anderson Cove at Pineview Reservoir. Pineview is such a pretty place! It is one of my favorite spots to camp! Jimmy found our family a new camping trailer. This trailer as 3 bunk beds! Perfect for our little family! Ashley gets the top bunk, Sarah the middle, and Charlie the bottom. Sophie is also known to take a nap on Charlie's bunk. (Sophie sleeps in a pack-n-play) I wasn't up for a new trailer, but since Jimmy found it, it was a good purchase. LOVE IT!

The weather was rainy the first part of the weekend, but sunshine came out by Sunday. When the weather got bad, we went in the trailer, turned on the generator, and watched a movie. So we had some down time & some naps.

In the morning, when 1 kid is up-almost everyone else in the trailer is up......yipee.

(Outside play time pictures)

Sophie ate a blue M&M. She looks like a little diva with blue lips.

Sarah's Preschool Graduation

Sarah finished up another great year at preschool. Miss Brandie was a great teacher, and Sarah learned lots in preschool. Sarah is a great student and had lots of friends at preschool. Good luck in Kindergarten Girl!

Ashley's Class Opera

Ashley's teacher works about half of the school year on a class opera. A person from the Utah Festival Opera comes into the class. The kids write the story, and gives the Opera person musical ideas. The opera person makes a recording for the kids, and we got a script. The kids learned the opera, and parents help with costumes and sets.

This year Mrs. Larson's first grade class presented "A Ruckus and Riot in the Rainforest". The opera was about some bad guys (some 6th graders) who wanted to come destory the rainforest, and the animals teamed up and convinced the bad guys to not destroy the rainforest. Ashley was a bird-a Macaw. The opera was cute! I was proud of Ashley! She worked hard to learn her part, and performed great infront of the school, and parents. It was worth coming back early to see it!

California May 2010

I am finally here to update the blog......(Jimmy's at hockey and the house is quiet-not clean-and I am blogging.)

Our journey began very early! Two cars were going with 5 adults and 5 kids. We all finally hit the road @ 4:45 am. We started with the two boys Charlie & cousin Cooper and Soph. The older girls started in Grandma's car. We made great time. We stopped for breakfast, a few potty breaks, a long lunch break, switched kids around & arrived safely in Newport Beach, California.

After being in the car so long, and while the guys unpacked and got things into our rooms, I took the kids to go PLAY. Here are some pix from the park, putting green, and sandbox on the Marriott Newport Villa's property.

Day 1 Disneyland



Day 2 Disneyland/California Adventure


Day 3 Villa activities & Disneyland

Tie-dying T-Shirts & Feeding Koi Fish

THEN----> (our day 4)

Ashley had year-end testing and her class opera the week we planned this family vacation. We decided it was important enough for her to come home for those important school events, so Ashley, Sophie, and I flew home early. It was our own adventure together. It was Sophie's first time flying, Ashley got sick on the plane, and we went to some new airports.