Thanksgiving

The kids loved spending time with their cousins!! Everyone loves Savanah!

Sydney and Brooklyn rollerblading at the park.
Shan(2) and Cam figuring out their cam. Mason loves Shannon. It could be the name.
Everyone jumping on the tramp.

Soccer Season

Mason is playing his first sport. He loves it and now thinks that 4 people (a four year old) is officially big.

Brooklyn is a great soccer player. We love these action photos!

more cali pics

Fall Break

Newport, California

We had a great time in California. We took Grandma along for the ride. She was a great help and fun to be with! The kids loved having her there. We went to the beach a couple of times, California adventure Park and hung out at our hotel. We stayed at the Newport cost villas which I highly recommend. They had plenty of pools, hot tubs, golf, playground, tetherball, a sandbox equipped with all the sand toys, an arcade room, a playstation room and they had movies and parties for the kids. They also had lifesize chess and checkers and ping pong by the pool. Our kids loved it and it was quite relaxing for the adults.

Random pics!

Definitely the 3 musketeers!
Owen deciding after a month that food wasn't soo bad!
Ethan is a perfect student. He loves 2nd grade. He's missing his top two teeth.
Owen and Zack begging to go outside!!but it's 150 degrees out there, so they just kept whining inside where it was a cool 74 degrees.
Owen and Mason have some fun in the hose as every kid should.

natural disaster

Our RS had mock natural disasters. I was chosen to not go to the grocery store for 3 days. Seriously, I'm glad to report it was no problem. We have alot of food. I enjoy buying food so it was nice to take time out from going to the store and actually eating our food that we do have. I was supposed to take inventory and realize stuff we can improve on. I did. We need batteries in our emergence flashlights in the kitchen cupboard..they were dead. I need more dry milk. We go through 10 gallons a week. I kid you not. I need more meat in the freezer....at least enough for a month. I'm sure there's alot more but that's all for now. It was a good experiment. We were asked to stage a photo..so here's one.

ward campout

Once again, we were in charge of our ward campout. I think it was a success! The kids had a great time and the breakfast was wonderful! Whole wheat pancakes!!

My new favorite web site. I got it from a friend. This has super cute ideas.
http://www.shesgotitall.net

I'd post pics but it's better if you just check out the whole site. Thanks Jenn.

Our "1" mile hike (or 4)

Damon carried O on the way there, I carried him the way back!
Chris, the other photographer!
The BOYS!
The gang! Mican looks super thrilled with our hike!

We started out on our short hike with 7 kids....sound crazy well it turned out to be alot longer than we thought. We heard alot of crying, stories and laughter. We carried half the kids the whole way. It was fun though. The Masons kept us entertained the whole time we were in Utah. We had so much fun!

boating with the Masons

Taylor looks frightened but they all loved it.
Owen slept most of the day.
All the kids enjoying the day!
Mason's future wife!....we hope
Chris "toilet bowled us", we went completely under. It was fun though!

Park City Utah. Mason loved and it....all he said was "faster mom" I almost threw up!!
Brooklyn wanted to do it again before she was even finished.
We went to south fork creek and had a picnic. It was awesome!
The Dahl! Thanks for letting us crash your family vacation.
We drove around and looked for deer....we saw 29. The kids were so excited

Not in order but pics from Utah!

beach pics

Mason digging a hole to play in!
Owen taking a nap on DAD!
The best boogie boarders ever!
Does she look like a Roxy chic or what!

We love the beach and hope to always go as much as we can. It's such a great family vacation for us. We all enjoy it and look forward to many more beach memories.

Here's one for Brooklyn

Brothers

I love to watch the relationship that Ethan has with Owen. Big brothers are great! Owen and Mason want to do everything Ethan does. Ethan said it would be cool to have a big brother. I told him it is cooler to be the big brother. He looked at me and nodded. He understood.