Easter

i miss my little nubbins.....kennedy....i want to squish you....sniff sniff.

Jill's baby shower

Happiest place on earth

We just got back from Disney World this week and it was so nice and warm! It was really a fun trip but definitely exhausting. We went to the Magic Kingdom the first day and it was sooooo packed with people that we probably went on 4 rides the entire day! Then we went to Hollywood Studios the second day which was also jam packed with people, then we went to Animal Kingdom which was my favorite and probably the kids favorite (we should have just skipped the magic kingdom and spent more time at the animal kingdom), the last day we drove to Coco Beach and the kids had a blast boogie boarding and playing in the sand. Even with long days of walking and walking in circles and waiting in long lines (even the bathrooms were a 20 min wait) the kids had so much fun...Kelty said her favorite parts were roasting marshmallows at the hotel's beach, space mountain, and the parade at the Animal Kingdom...Walker's favorites were the Dinosaur ride and when we bought him a dinosaur at the gift shop.

Scrapbooking

Well after a trip to park city and to St. George, i finally feel like i have a hold of my scrapbooking.... well just as long as i don't take too many pictures this year. these were a few of my favorites:)

My little Monsters

Halloween was fun. Kelty was sooo cute in her costume (which i sewed myself). Walker was cute too but a little violent when holding his sword...and Kennedy was the sweetest cow i've ever seen! I just love trick or treating, doughnut eating contest, the pumpkin patch, homemade rootbeer, decorating sugar cookies, and i especially love the colors of halloween.

Kelty is 5!

We had an ice cream movie night for kelty's birthday this year. The kids loved watching a movie outside on a big screen...whatever happened to drive-in movies?!! We just might have to do the same thing next year cause the kids had so much fun.

California in a nutshell

We started our trip to cali with a visit to Disneyland...we went on almost every ride because no one was there and the kids had a blast.
Then we drove to Carpintria beach for a family reunion with the stevensons. We camped for three days and the kids rode their bikes and played on the beach.

Lake powell, vivint style

Lake powell this year was even bigger and better than ever!! We had four house boats full of beautiful vivint people and then one house boat full of our office. There was an amazing fireworks show, we had some professional cooks making all our meals, there was a full time DJ playing music in our little canyon non stop all day, the genius idea of the blob, we got to participate in a rigged volleyball tournament (kidding Nat:) and the only child in site was sweet little taytay! It was so fun and such a nice getaway from the kiddies. P.S. I will never go to lake powell without a hot tub again...soooo nice on those sore muscles...man i'm getting old.
This year at lake powell we had the blob for entertainment. People got thrown so high and twisted that one girl was coughing up blood after her crash landing...I did not participate in such foolishness.
Matt's ongoing excuse to have a mustache...
My favorite part of lake powell was all the quality time i got to spend smiling at Courtney's precious Tay Tay!!

Memories

In our last days in Tennessee we visited Nashville and took the kids to this awesome water park. They loved it because it had tons of waterslides just their size and a lazy river for kids. We also visited the Temple there with our ward and walker broke his finger while i was in the temple during a session. It was a fun trip besides the broken finger.

Peachy king!

It was pioneer week so we participated in some pioneer activities such as picking our own food, making our own ice cream, and churning butter. Thanks to courtney, the girls even looked like pioneers with their cute little bonnets.