OUR TRIP TO CALIFORNIA

We celebrated the end of summer with a last minute trip to California! We first stopped in Vegas and stayed at the Marriott and then we were on our way to Cali. The kids had their own room which was REALLY nice! We had dinner at Goofy's Kitchen, took the kids to Disneyland. Austin was not fun so david took him back to the hotel and I stayed with the girls. We saw 2 parades, the Alladin show (which is like a Broadway version of it..AWESOME!) and then we saw the fireworks show over the castle which were AMAZING!! They had Tinker Bell flying over the castle during the fireworks which Addie was just thrilled about because she LOVES Tinker Bell. By this time it was 10pm and we had been there was 13 hours and I thought they would be ready to go. So I asked them if they wanted to go and Addie started freaking out saying she still wanted to ride the rides and i asked her which one and she says, "ALL OF THEM!!" So we went on 2 more rides and after being there for 14 1/2 hours it was time to go!!!! The next day we drove around Mission Viejo and had lunch where we used to go for walks, took the kids to our favorite beach, and swung by the Newport Beach temple. We had a great time! (Of course Austin was horrible and screamed most of the time in the car!)

UPDATED PICTURES ON OUR YARD

HOW WE SURVIVED THE SUMMER

BREAKING DAWN RELEASE PARTY!!!

None of us adult married women wanted to admit that we REALLY wanted to go to the Breaking Dawn party, but at the last minute we finally admitted that we couldn't miss it! So we had dinner at joe's crab shack and walked over to the CHAOS at Barnes and Noble and got in line for pictures with "Edward". (Move over Bella!!) We were # 149 and we were worried we weren't going to get it since they were closing the store, but we made it and i pushed my way to stand next to "Edward". The staff was really nice and were very understanding of everyones OBSESSION. They held our purses for us and explained how the picture was going to work and then she looks at me and says,"I just want to make sure you are ready." I saw people as old as 60 and as young as 8. So then around 11pm we went over to Wal-Mart hoping we would be less crowded. Oh no!! Their were propbably 500 people in front of us!! The wal mart staff handed everyone wedding cake. As the night wore on I have no idea how many people were behind us. It was insane!! I have never seen anything like it!! Finally at 12:15 we had our books in our hands and we had a very memorable FUN night!! I just saw on the news that their were 2,000 people at the Barnes and Noble that we were at and over 1,000 at the Wal-Mart!

We had a busy week this past week. Since I drive 45 minutes to take aubree to summer school in West Jordan I try and stay down there and hang out with friends I don't get to see that often. So I have been able to hang out with my good friend shellee & her kids, Robyn & her kids, and we also hung out with my sister and played with her 6 boxer puppies. We laid down some more sod in the yard and we also went to a baseball game and saw an AMAZING fireworks show. ooops, I forgot we all went swimming with rahndi again. Today we took the kids up the canyon and played in the water. This week is Aubree's last week of summer school. YEAH!!!

Check out my Slide Show!

Took a quick trip to Gardner Village today since its so close to Aubree's school in West Jordan. The kids LOVE Gardner Village. We always do the same thing: visit the animal farm, pick out a treat at the candy store, and pick out something at the "Just Girls' store.

THE WEEKEND

Busy weekend! We went on a drive to an old mining town, planted some more bushes and finally laid down some mulch, and had our good friends the Brammers over for dinner. We've known them since college and Aubree & Abigail have been great friends since they were 2! When they were 2 we would take them for a walk and they would be in separate strollers but insist they hold each others hands. So we would have to make sure we would push the strollers close together.

SWIMMING WITH AUNT RAHNDI

We went swimming with my sister in law at our local pool the other day. I took Austin down the water slide probably 50+ times and Addie 50+ times. Austin would say "Slide!" All the way up ( and since he has a vocabulary of 5, it was great to hear a new word. ) and then he would squeal all the way down! When he saw me go down with Addie he would get so excited because he knew it was his turn.

This has been our summer project. We hired a contractor to come out and put some shelves in. It was like Christmas morning for me when they were done! I never realized how badly I needed shelves to store all of my CRAP until they were finished! We put shelves in the fruit room, storage room, and garage. They also extended my 'deck" to put shoe shelves and made something to hang my brooms (they also did one for my shovels) eventually we will hang up hooks for coats and back packs. Since we have shelves in the fruit room I turned a table that I was using for food storage into a craft table for the girls (something I have been wanting to do for a VERY long time.) So then I finally got the playroom how I wanted it and hung up a picture collage. I bought the frames for cheap and painted them (also painted the bulletin boards)Also the contractors found 12 black widows in our window wells!!