Disneyland Trip...Part 2

Monday morning started our 3 day Disneyland/California Adventure adventure. It may sound like a lot, but it was perfect. We did everything we wanted to in both parks, and then some! Monday was all day at California Adventure, Tuesday all day at Disneyland, Wednesday hitting everyones favorites one (sometimes two) more times!

Mary's favorite rides were: Tower of Terror, California Scream'in, Space Mountain, Splash Mountain, and Grizzly Rapids (even though she got soaked from head to toe)!

Brynn's favorite rides were: Soar'in Over California and Space Mountain. I talked her into Tower of Terror, and she did NOT like that one. She nicknamed it "meanie butt tower of terror!"

Lucy's favorite rides were: the Carousel, the Catepillar, and the Tea Cups. (pretty much Lucy was not worth the money)

Kelsey's favorite ride was by far the Nemo Submarine!

Kacy and I also had a great time going on the rides, big and small. We both agreed that the California Scream'in roller coaster was the most fun!

It was a ton of fun to go with the whole family. The kids loved being with their cousins and aunts and uncles, and having so many adults made it easy to trade and go on some fun rides ourselves.

We all had a great time both at Disneyland and with each other!

Almost all the of the cousins wearing their cute ears! These were fun souvenirs.

Brynn (7), Lucy (4), Peyton (4-amlost 5), Marlee (7), Mary (9), and Blake (2- almost 3)
The whole family at California Adventure.

Brynn knocking on the Mad Hatter's door.

Lucy with Princess Tiana

The kids loved both of the parades. This is Lucy dancing her pants of with the "purple guy" during the Disneyland parade! She really put on quite a show.

MINNIE!

MICKEY!

Silly Mary hanging from Dumbo!

Smiley Kelsey on the KC Jr. trainride!

Lucy's favorite ride...the Carousel!

Uncle Dave was a little nervous, but Kelsey and Josh loved this ride!

All the girl cousins with Tinker Bell!

The Tea Cups were a big hit with everyone...even Lucy after we finally talked her into going on them.

You can see Corey and Jessica and Colin in the background of this picture...somehow I didn't get hardly any pictures with them.

The girls in front of the Disneyland Castle

Uncle Boo and Blake on the bumper bugs!

Kelsey loved Dumbo, but we could never talk Lucy into it!

Here the girls are on the catepillar ride...this was one of Lucy's favorites...it only went 2 miles per hour and stayed on the ground!

Another exciting event that occured on our trip was Brynn loosing two teeth! We were in line for soaring over california, our first ride Monday morning, and Uncle Boo pulled out one of her teeth! Then about two minutes later, before we were even on the ride, Brynn pulled out another one! It was so cool! The tooth fairy gave her an extra bonus because loosing two teeth at Disneyland is pretty amazing!

Disneyland Trip...Part 1

Januray 29th through Feburary 5th, 2010 we had a great vacation to Southern California. Kacy, Kris, and Dave all had a confrence in San Diego the week before, so the families all joined them at the end of the week and made it a Disneyland Vacation! On Friday after school the girls and I drove down to St. George to pick up Corey, Jessica, and Colin. Saturday we caravaned down to Newport and were reunited with Kacy and all the Kilpatrick Cousins!! We were so lucky to be able to stay in some really nice time-share condos (thanks to Dave and Flur) in Newport. On Sunday we just hung out and took a fun walk down to the beach and played in the tide-pools. The kids loved it!

All the cousins at the big Newport sign - our condos were just up the hill from here.
This is the view from our room - it was so beautiful.

The kids walking down to the beach.

All the kids posed for us just before we descended to the beach.

Cute Cousins!

Everyone had so much fun at the beach looking for shells, rocks, and sea life. The kids got wet and sandy, but it so fun to see them so excited on the beach - something they rarely get to see!

I'm going to blog again....the 2010 experiement!

Okay, I'm going to start blogging again. Due to the fact that I am completely behind in my "scrapbooking", yet very determined to document our family's life in some way shape or form, 2010 will be the year of the blog experiment. I am going to blog all of the noteworthy events in our family's life this year on the blog, and then turn it into one of those books. We'll see if it turns out to be the easiest way to "scrapbook" our life, or if my hunt continues. I know it is already March, but hey "better late than never", actually I've been waiting for our new computer (our other one was knocking on deaths door everyday), and it is finally here....so let the year begin!

SOCCER!!

Both Mary and Brynn decided to try soccer this spring. It has consumed our lives for the past 2 months, because Brynn plays on Wed/Fri and Mary plays on T/Th, but it has been so fun. Both girls have great coaches with lots of friends on the team, and they have both really enjoyed themselves. Mary even scored a goal!

Mary, walking over to throw the ball in.
Brynn playing "defender".
Mary going for it.
Brynn trying to get inside the pack of girls that follow the ball around. Oh yeah, and isn't Kelsey cute? She is pulling herself up on things these days!

Spring Break in St. George

For Spring Break last week we went down to Southern Utah to visit Corey, Jessica, and little Colin. We had a great visit, and a lot of fun - Thanks Corey and Jessica!

Colin, Lucy, and Kelsey in the tub. Colin is so cute, and very energetic...my girls LOVED playing with him!
A rare family picture! This is us at the Brigham Young house tour...it was a rainy day, but the tour was very interesting.
Mary and Brynn at the Fiesta Family Fun Center...one of our rainy day activities.
A beautiful day at Red Rock! My girls LOVE to go to this park and hike around, they have so much fun.

Happy Easter

We had a great Easter. The girls were so cute finding their baskets. Then we went to church, and ended the day with a great dinner and Easter Egg hunt with the Kilpatrick cousins.

Lucy showing off her Easter dress. She picked it out, and she LOVES it!
Brynn and Peyton on the hunt.
Marlee and Mary
Kelsey loved playing with the eggs.
All the cousins! Can you believe we got this good of a picture with this many kids?!?

Kelsey is 9 months old...Today!

Rub your eyes again, they are not deceiving you...I am actually updating my blog. Today is this little sweetie's 9 Month Birthday!! I can't believe she is already that old. She is kind of high maintenance, but she is very sweet, very cute, and we would not trade her for anything...even a baby who actually sleeps. We LOVE our little bubbles!!

Isn't she so cute? This picture was taken by my friend Angie Clayson when she was six months old, but she really doesn't look much different, except she's gotten a little more hair. Everyone loves her red hair, and we constantly get asked "Where did that red hair come from?" Kelsey is a great eater! She started out my biggest baby and had kept the title! She has figured out her "pincer" and loves to eat dry cereal, crackers etc. She also loves all of her baby food.

Like I said she is a great eater, and although she looks bigger than Lucy in this picture, she isn't...yet.
I had to capture the rare moment of her sleeping, because she just looked SO sweet!
Kelsey has learned to crawl, and is constantly finding fun things around the house that aren't actual "toys", and if it is smaller that her hand it is immediately in her mouth!