Disneyland Day #2

Day #2 in Disneyland

 



Evan's favorite ride was Autopia. He thought he was really big stuff driving so we had to go back again the second day

California Adventure

We headed to CA Adventure the day after we arrived in California. They have added a lot of new things since we were there last. Much better.

Dance party with Phineas and Ferb

New Cars Land It looked awesome. I think the main ride was the only good one. The others were a bit lame. 

Cone hat

Riding the new cars ride

It looked even cooler at night

On one of the lame rides, but Evan loved it

Luckily ran into Buzz Lightyear

And Mater

Allison was gracious enough to sit out with the babies and little kids on some of the rides. She is such a darling pregnant lady. Look how cute she is. I just caught this picture of her without her knowing I was taking it. 

Disneyland Day #1

It was a lot of fun spending the week with my family. Surprisingly we didn't have any problems or contention. The kids had a blast hanging out with their cousins.

Since this post was on the shorter side I decided to include a couple pictures from the house we rented by Disneyland. It was beautiful and had all these murals around the house.

August part 2

My friend Jen Cox and I took our kids up the canyon to play in the water. When we left they were covered in mud, but had big smiles.

We went for a little hike to a waterfall with the kids. They did great walking the whole way by themselves. Carver loved his first trip in the hiking backpack. 

Hanging out at a T-ball game with grandpa

I really really hope this little guy's eyes stay blue!

We went to Bear Lake for a few days and decided to try to cheesy quad-bikes. It was pretty fun.

J.P.'s family and Amy's family trying to catch up to us. 

We took a hike on our way home from Bear Lake. Jon insisted that I take a picture of him by this fallen tree.

 

7 months old

Shawn sat at the computer with me and designed this sign for his first day of school. He chose the color paper and cut out the edges. He was so happy with his little sign.



The class of 6th graders that lined the walkway to Kindergarten cheering for the new students

Shawn was really nervous the morning of kindergarten. I borrowed a book from a friend called "The Kissing Hand". It is about a raccoon who is nervous to go to school. The mom raccoon kisses the palm of his hand and closes his fingers around it. Then tells him to hold it to his face if he is scared at school and think "mommy loves you, mommy loves you". The book really calmed down Shawn. I included this picture because it shows his little hand tightly closed around the kiss I gave him. :)

When you are the oldest in your class and also in the 95% height range for your age, it makes you much taller than the other kids. 

Shawn I went to Lagoon as a pre-kindergarten celebration. It was a lot of fun spending the day together just the two of us. 

August

Jon was out of town a couple weeks ago and it was the first time I have had all three boys by myself at church. They did great! I think I had heavenly help. I sure love these handsome little men.

This is a "cake" Shawn made with his fruit shape thing. It is a combination of toast, breadstick, cantaloupe, tomatoes, strawberries and cucumbers. Mmmm....delicious!

Shawn played T-ball again this year and loved it. I think he is ready for real baseball though. 

We put the boys in swim lessons at a home in Draper. Shawn has done swim lessons before at the rec center but it wasn't anything like these lessons. Shawn was swimming across the pool after the second day when he hadn't been able to swim at all. Evan cried the ENTIRE first lesson but by the end of the 2 week session he could swim most of the way across the short length of the pool. We were thrilled! 

This is another picture from our hike at Bear Lake. This is Shawn's "hiking" face. 

Shawn surprised us with lunch one day. Whole wheat toast, whip cream, strawberries and blueberries. 

He even got a little roll out for Carver and ripped off tiny pieces for him