Our Disneyland Picture

Here is my whole family at Disneyland. Tell me which adults I am related to. There are six kids in my family!

Welcome Georgia!

This is my neweset Neice! Georgia Evelyn Brown -- she is my brother Drew and cute SIL Lauren's newest little one -- can't wait to hold her! CONGRATULATIONS guys!

Tagged

I got tagged, so here goes:

Four places I go regularly:
Costco (Spencer has been known to pray for me here), Sam's (Yep, the three year old knows the difference -- the other two get confused :)), the Clinic, my parents

Four people who e-mail me regularly:
Durango Ward RS, Various Travel sites, Marlene, my parents

Four places I like to eat:
Costa Vida, Chick Fil-A, Red Robin, On the Border

Four places I would like to be right now:
In bed, Getting a manicure and pedicure, on an airplane headed anywhere fun, Visiting any friends or family

Four people who will respond (I'm tagging you!):
Lauren, Becky, anyone who wants to respond

Four TV Shows:
Little Einsteins (Can you guess who really watches this?), Good Morning America, Anything on Discovery channel, anything on the History Channel

Cute Relatives

Here are some of my cute relatives -- the little boy is Alonzo and the sleeping baby is Abigail. .

Here are a couple more fun relatives. Sarah is the little girl, and Eddie is below -- Eddie wouldn't let me get very many close up's without him moving his eyes -- I got one that makes a great Halloween picture -- his eyes are almost going two directions!!!!

All right, enough for now -- I guess I had better go pay my taxes -- Fed Ex showed up at my door just now, and then maybe I will clean my house. . . I think blogging would be more fun!

Here is Lucy tending my newest neice, Abigail -- born on St Patrick's day.



We were able to do it -- we got the whole quilt tied! Hooray for us!! If those tiny knots that we had to use from the scraps hold, I will be amazed!!! We were scrounging at the end with no more thread and about 7 more knots needed! What a fun memory!



We even got our signs done! AMAZING what you can do with only newborns and lot's of willing hands around!

Sister Reunion

All right, for those of you that see I really posted a bunch -- I had to clear my conscience before I post the most recent -- I still have a couple posts for April -- but different camera, different card. . . Anyway, I just got home from a weekend trip to Utah, ALONE!!! Yes, I know, not a normal thing for a mom with three young boys and a very BUSY husband!! But, thanks to my mom and dad and brother and sister -- I was able to go to a women only retreat with Jake's mom and sisters and the other "in-law" sisters. . . We had a blast!



On Saturday morning, we got up early and went to the temple in Manti. What a fantastic experience! Our session was extra special with Elder Oakes attending that session to -- for me it just added to a fantastic memory!


Manti is the temple that Jake and I were sealed in -- I guess it has some extra memories and specialness just because of that. . .
After the temple, we came home and worked on a big quilt -- we tied and ate -- and ate and tied . . . Are we going to be able to finish?!


Here is when we were getting some of the yummy food that only Lisa can provide -- thanks to her for hosting!

Easter

For Easter this year, we went to our annual ward egg hunt, and then on Sunday, we hid a few eggs inside and out for the boys to find. It was such a beautiful time of year and the chocolate eggs didn't melt outside -- UNUSUAL!!

With Jake home, you would think I would have been able to get better pictures. . . I realize now that I didn't get one of them all together either in their play clothes or church clothes. . . what kind of mom misses that opportunity?!! -- It seems like that day I was doing well to just get pictures of them while they were running everywhere!! :)

The ZOO

So, maybe someday I will get my blog posted for our Disney trip, but meanwhile, I will blog some of the stuff we have been doing. . . .Like, our day at the zoo during spring break. . . Beautiful day -- fun friends -- thanks Perry's and Jones' for letting us tag along with you!

Spencer really was testing his taste of independence!! I mean big time -- he took off and had to check out the telescope that was on the other side of the animal exhibit -- I thought he was cute, and obviously there were lots of moms keeping eyes on him :)

Park Time

We went to the park yesterday and Spencer was excited to do the monkey bars, the only thing, he wanted mom to hold him while he did the monkey bars, and mom wanted to take some pictures. . .anyway, here is one that I thought turned out cute.

Newport Beach

Spencer really liked the sand at the beach, it was his first time to the beach -- he loved it, it was too bad it was so cold that they couldn't really get in!

Ryan really liked collecting the shells on the beach -- he also like the water -- but he was good about listening and not getting wet!

Spencer didn't love the muddy fingers -- the water and sand -- for this kid, his two loves, one place = HEAVEN

Jacob loves water as soon as we got to the beach, he had run off and was at least thigh deep in the waves just chasing to the next one!

Pinewood Derby

Super Spider getting ready to race! Jacob's car is n the number one position! Go Super Spider!

Spencer and his buddy "Tots" Tatum keeping entertained while the races are going!

Go Super Spider -- the Scouts awaiting at the end of the track their car and the results!

Jacob receiving his award -- the most likely to climb walls! Jacob's car came in seventh overall -- we were just relieved it won several races!