Friday, May 1, 2009

Utah-Family pics

Here are some pics from Utah...

My Papou & XiaXia with SPence and my 4 kidsMy cousin Tiffany & her fiance Mike with Spence and the kids.
We asked Grandma Johnson if she would teach us how to make her famous rolls. Here are Wes and Ender learning. Armour was the one most involved though he is not in the picture somehow...
Grandpa Johnson with Kindle
Cooper (he is the son of Nattalie-Wesley's cousin) with SOlace, Grandpa and Kindle.
Grandma with sleeping Kindle.
Armour dancing for us all.
Grandma and Grandpa Johnson with Wes and the kids.
GG & Ender
GG and the kids (except Kindle)
GG and Great Grandpa Nelson with all our kids.
Charlissa (Wes's cousin) and our kids

Kindle and the popping toy.

This was far too funny to keep to myself, so I recorded it and now I am posting it. Kindle was looking at/playing with this little Easter popping toy and it both intrigued and scared her. It was funny...enjoy!

Kindle the crawler

In case you haven't seen our great crawler in action, here is a short 10 second video for your enjoyment. She foes bonk her head at the end-FYI, she is fine! Also, it is from a few weeks ago, so she is even more mobile now...

Monday, April 27, 2009

When in Daybreak-do as the daybreakians?!

After visiting with GG & Great Grandpa Nelson we walked over to meet my sister Andrea and her kids to walk around the lake and hang out for a while. Here are those pics. (BTW-this should have been posted 2 days ago, but I dropped and broke the screen of my laptop-suck! But now we have the laptop hooked to the TV as the monitor so that is pretty sweet. But I will have to buy a new laptop so if you know a good deal, let me know...)

Stef with the boys and Kindle Solace went up to help Andrea get her kids out of the carhere she is with Kyara.
Supermom Andrea carries her 2 youngest while Mel looks on.
Kindle Cat
Everyone that was there but me, Mel, & Stef
Kyara sporting the newest in preschool fashion...the Kool-Aid smile!
Ender as the inevitabe rock throwing event begins. He is pretty happy with that last toss...
Not to be outdone by her younger brother, Solace takes a swing.
Kyara with a rock as small as she is.
Check out the breezy hair...eat your heart out sports illustrated swim suit edition photographers!
Sol throws
Ender and the "favorite" aunts-just ask them, they will tell you they are...
The rock throwing continues in a different location-check out Wesley's form...
Children and their rocks
Lovely Ladies (NOT like the song)
Little Ender G looks at his cousin Kindle Cat (She's like "hey, I have a belly just like that!")
Kyara runs
Wes
Little Ender taking care of Kindle
These 2 both start Kindergarten this year-I think they are going to be on opposite sides of the height spectrum...
Kyara and the Enders
Army, Wes & grandma
The new temple...

Visit to GG & Great Grandpa Nelson's house

Great-Grandpa said he has pictures of almost all his grandkids and great-grandkids on the zebra, so we had to get our kids in on the action...




Randomness in Utah





Somebody had a birthday...

**Note-somehow this blog got totally screwed up, but I am posting it anyway cause it took me forever to do it. I will try to fix it later.**Well, now that I am back into blogging, I should mention that my handsome oldest son turned 5 on April 5th-that's right, it was his special birthday. We left to drive to Utah on Friday April 3, stayed overnight in Cheyenne and intended to leave there and get to Utah in time for a party at like 4ish that night. Instead we left Cheyenne early, went the hour or so drive to Laramie, where we got stuck with the road closed due to snow and wind. We got a hotel, went over to check in and found it was trashy-I would say at least as bad as our honeymoon Castaway hotel. There was a liquor store attached to the hotel with crazy scary looking people in and out at 10 AM as we tried to check in. I freaked and started to look for other lodgings, was told by every hotel that they were booked up. I hung up with the Days Inn who told me they were totally booked, and my mom called me. She looked online and found a room for fairly cheap open online at the very Days Inn that had just told me they were booked. We booked that room and canceled at the yucky place. We checked in there in the afternoon, after a LONG lunch at the Burger King with a playground and 2 very long trips to the super Wal-Mart. We swam and watched a movie and tried to make it fun. The next morning we planned to get out as soon as the freeway opened. And to make a long story short (too late) we ended up leaving about 10 AM. We made it to Utah in time to have a lovely Greek Easter meal (a couple weeks early) at my parents house and a party for Ender. That was his actual birthday. He had a second party at Wes's parents house the next night. I somehow did not get a picture of the cake at my parents house though. In fact I didn't get a lot of pictures there period. Tell me if you have any good ones...In the meantime, enjoy the many pictures I DO have from the parties...

Birthday Boy!Opening presents
He got a camcorder-his great aunt Kris loves and spoils him! He loves that camcorder!
Army, Stef, & Mel staying entertained.
Party 2 cake

Goofball 5-yr-old
Spence, Sol & End
Mel, Stef & the sleeping beauty



Sol
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Great-Grandma Gerry
Still a goofy 5-yr-old
Reading a card
Tom, Grandpa & Mel
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Me & Army. (If you are into Killer Bunnies, you should note that I am wearing a Killer Bunny necklace that Kris gave me!)

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