Who looks like who?

So this past week I have been working on making photo books (finally) for my kids. I made them all books with their first year last week, and after looking at all their baby pics for days and days, they all kind of started to morph into each other!! What do you think? Who do you think is who??

Its about time!!!

Well I know some of you....namely my brother...will be in utter shock to see this. I know, it's taken a LONG time to get back into the swing of blogging, but I figure it's about time! I will begin with Kevin's Birthday, kind of appropriate since that is where I left off 2 years ago! We had a great day, Well let's start off with the weekend before. Kevin and some neighbors had the opportunity to go to the UTAH/USC game in Cali, he had a great time even though it was a whirlwind trip. They lost :( but it was still a great game! Noah and I spent the day on his birthday getting ready. I decided to have a "favorite things theme". We collected all his favorite items from various stores (not Noah's favorite thing) brought them home and put boxes over them oprah style! The kids thought it was fun revealing them that way. We finished off the night by going out to dinner with the family. It was a good day. Thanks for having a birthday Kevin, so we could do some celebrating! We love you!

Thirty Three

From June 28 to Sept 12 Kevin and I are 2 years apart...IE, I am 2 years older than him....and boy does he love to remind me of that! So with that said, Happy Birthday to my sweet husband of almost 11 years!! We had a lovely day with a whole 8 hrs away from our kids!!! It has been since my birthday that we have been alone without our sweet children, way too long, and we very much enjoyed ourselves today!!! Thanks Rhonda for watching them and feeding them and loving them! H A P P YB I R T H D A YK E V I N!

Dinner Prayer

Noah's dinner Prayer tonight:
(he doesn't get the closing of the eyes yet during prayers)

Heavenly Father:
Thankful for this day,
Thankful for the food,
(Pause)
....OHH we have CORN....!!!
( quiet snickering all around....including the parents)
(Pause)
I think he was ready to eat it at this point.....
Please bless it
Maybe Jesus Christ, AMEN

Oh Noah, there is never a dull moment with you around, even during prayer time!!
I just didn't want to forget your sweet prayer tonight!!!

Lake Powell

We had the awesome oppurtunity to go to Lake Powell this past weekend with Kevin's dad, and it was the BEST time ever!! All in all we probably spent 30 Hrs on the lake and we had a BLAST! Every morning we would get up really early to get on the lake and spend all day swimming, tubing, exploring, rock jumping, seashell hunting, eating, and just hanging out, and at the end of the day we would drive back to our hotel and get showered and go out to eat! The kids thought it was the best place ever! They never wanted to leave, even after spending almost 12 hrs in one day on the lake! We all slept VERY well every night (to say the least!) We are so lucky to have a Papa that loves his grandkids and will do anything to make them Happy!! Thankyou Papa for a very fun weekend! Showing us their muddy hands

the kids with their Papa

Noah was not so sure about this...

But he loved to drive the boat!!

The girls loved to swim with us!

The most beautiful scenery!

Kevin climing a rock to jump!

the girls got in on it to!

Allie's favorite part(finding seashells)

Our Family!

"FIRST"

Yesterday donned a new school year, the girls were VERY excited to start the new year!! We have a lot of "firsts" this year here are some of them!!

1. Brand new school, "first" year opened!

2. "First" time walking to school, no more buses!

3. Hadlee is a "first" grader this year, her "first" day staying all day, and "first" day eating lunch at school! (WHEEW...that was a big one....) but she did awesome!

4. We tried Early Bird this year, might be a "first" or a last!! (morning's rough, but having them home earlier is great)

5. Because of the early schedule Hadlee woke up before 7, that's a"first" for her!!

6. Noah and I joined the girls for lunch at the school for the "first"day of school!

7. I was the "first" one up in the house yesterday, (Kevin is ususally,well let's be honest....., ALWAYS up before me!)

8. If you write and say "first" a lot it starts to sound wrong!

Well there is a recap of our "first" day of school a lot of fun and new things for us and we're excited to see what else the new year brings. Hope everyone had a great day!!

San Diego

We took our family vacation to San Diego in the middle of June, it was a lot of fun, our kids had never see the ocean, so they were VERY excited to experience it!! We had one good day at the beach playing in the water, hunting for seashells, digging holes, and filling buckets apon buckets apon buckets with water/sand concoctions!! But the rest of the days it was quite CHILLY!! But that 1 day we were there for 8 HOURS, so I was good with it!! We also visited seaport village and saw all the Huge navy ships with the helicopters and planes on them, and that was really cool to see! We also took the kids to the San Diego temple, Allie thought it was the most beautiful temple she had ever seen!! I have to admit I agree Allie!! I love that temple :) All in all, we had a great time and can't wait to go back again!! Someday we hope to stay at the beautiful hotel in the back ground of the first picture Hotel Del Coronado.....:)