Oregon Trip

Last weekend we took a really quick trip to Oregon to help Brady and Jessica move. It was short and sweet and a good excuse to take a trip! :)

Ella and Kennedy playing in the playhouse...
Holding the sweetest baby on planet earth....
Carter and Patrick playing basketball....
and trying to round up4 kids for a photo shoot. Doesn't go too well. :) The kids all dressed up for Grandpa and Patrick's birthday dinner.
How cute are they, really? I talk about them like an overly proud grandma. My friends think it's weird. :)


Carter was sick pretty much the whole time we were there, but still a really good sport about the whole thing. He's just so sweet and cute all the time!
She doesn't waste any time with a napkin....good choice. :)

Happy.

There's nothing like starting a new dance class....again. :) But I have hope for this one, and so excited about it! A lady in Soda has been doing this for 20+ years. I'm learning jazz and ballet and clogging, which it turns out is very similar to tap. :) She's really good, and cheep too, so what more can you ask for? Can't wait to get down and do some actual dancing again, and for now I'm just happy!
Ummm, 4th grade, I think?
6th grade

My cool edit I made! It's my new thing...

My birthday!

For my birthday we had a sleepover aaaand, shocking I know, had another photo shoot! I found this awesome site called Picnik that I used to edit them. It is sooooo fun to do and the pictures turned out awesome!

My life...

Will never calm down it turns out! Here's what I've been doing instead of posting on my blog...

Napping with baby Brighton....

Eating frozen bananas....
Lots of Disneyland..
Getting a cute pedicure...

Driving Autopia cars.... and having fun in my favorite state! :)

I love it when.....

...I'm so busy doing stuff I COULD post about that I don't have time to post. :) It is my favorite. We have been very busy, going to Nauvoo, moving Chad and Amy T to Rhode Island, on a roughly 24 hour car ride. Very fun. :) Anyway....here are some pictures from Nauvoo first.

A very nice lady offered to take our picture together....and my mother actually let her do it! :)
Emily's highlight of the trip- a pink gumball.
Nauvoo temple

Wagon ride/tour
Annie's highlight- she found a BABY in he family living center. She loves babies and was very proud of her find.


HEY....we sat next to each other for that long? :)
Gorgeous.
Liberty jail was probably the best of all. Incredible.

"He is not graduating! He is moving from the 4th grade to the 5th grade!!!"

Well said. Actually, I moved from the 8th grade to the 9th grade. They make a really big deal about it when you graduate middle school, when really you are just relieved to be done with it. We did all cry a little about retiring teachers, but that was it. Any of you who have had Mr. C as a teacher, let me tell you, the 8th graders made him a giant poster of Griselda. It was awesome. And since I know Jessica is the only one reading this who wouldn't know.....:) Anyway, I don't have pictures yet, because my mom didn't come. :)

Seattle.. finally...

It's taken me a while to get around to this...but that's life. These are of our day out in Seattle over spring break. I really wish the blogger upload would put the pictures in how you upload them, instead of how they do it. It makes no sense to me. So, these pictures are in no particular order.

Classic picture...
Floating houses. Who knew?


THE SPACE NEEDLE!!!
A really nasty fish market. Where they throw fish.
Seriously love these kids. A lot of teenagers say they don't like kids....let me tell you. I'M NOT ONE OF THEM. :) All we needed on this trip was Emily, Annie, and Brighton, and I would have been in total heaven.

Ferry ride to Seattle