Over The River and Through The Woods . . . .

We went camping! Glorified city-slick camping, but camping non-the-less. Mike and I decided to surprise my parents for the 4th of July. We got in the RV and headed to St. George the Thursday before the 4th of July. We stayed that night in Las Vegas so we could visit Mikes brother and sister in law. When we got to my parents house they were so EXCITED and SURPRISED! My dad hadn't seen the babies since March.

On Sunday after the 4th Mike had to go back to California to go back to work. The babies and I stayed in St. George to hang out with the grandparents and Rori. On Wednesday my mom got a wild hair or some kind of itch and suggested that we go to Pine Valley. I jumped on the idea, being house bound makes me brave! So, we packed up the RV and headed up the mountain. It was so much fun and the babies had a good time too. Grandpa is a die hard old school camper so I think he was a little embarrassed to sleep in a RV. He is used to roughing it in a tent and sleeping bag. He brought all of his cooking equipment and made us foil dinners for dinner and pancakes and ham for breakfast the next morning.

We didn't take very many pictures but here are a few. I really need to document better.


Rori and Anthony, Grandpa and Jaileigh enjoying the morning fresh air. I think Grandpa is trying to teach Jaileigh how to drink Diet Coke out of a straw.


Rori and Anthony, Grandpa and Jaileigh, and Grandma and Mikey

Jaileigh looking at herself in the bathroom mirror. The babies loved this mirror. It was the perfect height. They would laugh and kiss themselves over and over.

Rori and her zebra striped glasses. What a character she is! We LOVE you Rori!
Jaileigh and her snaggle toothed grin

Grandma and Grandpa taking the babies for a stroll.

Grandpa trying to teach Anthony all about Diet Coke.

Bye Grandpa, Grandma, and Rori

Happy 4th of July and Happy Fathers Day!

Happy 4th of July!

Anthony

Michael

Jakob

Jaileigh

The boys waiting to go to dinner, "We're hungry!"

and a belated Happy Fathers Day! We Love You Daddy!

Andy (my brother) and Michael taking a Sunday afternoon snooze



Tia and Andy entertaining the whole crew. This really takes talent!

Happy 11 Month Birthday! & Zoo Pictures!

Boy Time Flies! I can't believe the babies will be a year old in one month. A year ago this week I was put in the hospital. AAAHHHHH it brings back so many memories. WOW! A year. I am speechless. Enjoy the pics! Hopefully I will find words for their 1 year birthday.

Anthony and his flirtatious grin

Anthony and Miss Megha being cool

Look at those teeth!
Michael and his enormous blue eyes

Michael loving the pool too! I have little water babies. They cry when they have to get out.

Jaileigh ready to go

Jaileigh- I left the room for a minute and when I came back in Jaileigh was inside this box. No one knows how she got in it. So, we took a picture.

Jakey loving the pool

Jakob has his hair all dolled up= which girl are you trying to impress this time little dude?

I was also able to get my pictures off of our camcorder from the ZOO. We went to the San Diego Wild Animal Park last week with Rori and Grandma, who by the way decided to desert us and went home to Grandpa on Saturday. We are feeling quite lonely now and the babies are of course very spoiled. Mommy is having a hard time pretending to be 3 people when I am only one. Anyway, back to the zoo. The weather was HOT! The zoo had misters all over and we spent the majority of the time searching for misters to walk under. All in all, I think that fun was had by all. The babies love getting out and seeing new things. This was one of Rori's requests so she was happy and Grandma is just happy being with her babies.

Michael trying to get a drink. All the babies think they are big now and need to eat and drink big people food.

Mom and Jakey- relaxing and cooling off in the shade

Rori having a rare "moment" and Anthony lounging in her lap

Our resting spot- this blanket has been everywhere, motel rooms, parks, beaches, zoos, baseball games, etc. It is a lifesaver.

Little Jaileigh Bug giving some attitude

The Krazy Kouple

We had a visit from the Krazy Kouple all the way from Arizona. Ryan and Karmann came to visit and our children LOVED them. Jaileigh has a boyfriend- finally. She has been so cranky to everyone we were getting a little worried. She looooovvves Ryan. The boys were all fighting over Karmann. It will be interesting to see who wins her over.

When we lived in Las Vegas we met Ryan and Karmann. We moved to California a year after we got married and Ryan and Karmann moved to Arizona. Since then we have been able to keep in touch with them every once in awhile.

During their way too short visit Mike and Ryan went golfing. Mike was very happy to get out of the house with another adult. Karmann, Grandma, Rori, Megha, the babies, and I went to Huntington Beach for the day (see previous post to hear about our fabulous time). We feel so blessed to have such fabulous, positive, uplifting friends. We just wish they lived closer again.

Karmann and Ryan hanging out with Anthony- I think they were really trying to stuff him in that bag so they could "borrow" him for awhile.



Ryan telling Jaileigh a great big story

Anthony, Karmann, Jakob, Jaileigh, Ryan, and Michael

Jaileigh and her boyfriend

Jaileigh being coy with Ryan



Auntie Rori and Anthony

Karmann and Jakob




Michael being silly. He loves his index finger.

Huntington Beach Here We Come

We had a fabulous idea to go to the beach. So, we found the perfect beach, we loaded the suburban, and we headed off down the freeway timing the day so that we would miss California traffic (yea right!)


The AWESOME set-up- need I say more. The wind was blowing and getting sand everywhere so we tried to rig a protective set-up. Notice the purple sheet tied down to the strollers. Rori is holding the umbrella up with her feet. We finally just formed a human circle and let the babies play. In the meantime we called the husbands and told them to drive down to the beach and help us reload the car. We lasted maybe 30 minutes, then reloaded and hauled everything back to the cars and we remembered to call the husbands and tell them never mind. So, the beach turned into a photograph moment and nothing more. I think we will wait until the are a little older to hit the waves again.

Michael and his crackers, Jaileigh eating the booger getter and Anthony searching for something to get into.
Karmann and Jakey

Amber and Jaileigh

Anthony- Can you please get this hood off me, I can't hear!

Mom and Jakey- don't let the little bonnett fool you. We had to put his sister hat on because it has straps and the little rascal wouldn't keep his hat on.

Rori suntanning while Jaileigh is watching and remembering for when she gets older

Grandma We Love You

The Babies all LOVE Grandma and are going to be so sad when she leaves. Here they are all lined up trying to get her attention.

(Grandma is a little camera shy)

Swimming In The Real Pool

We made it to a REAL pool. We have graduated from the WT Hillbilly pool in the backyard. haha. We love it but our landlords probably don't. We went to our friends the Dunkleys for a fun pool day.

Rori and Jaileigh- the girls hanging out. You can also see Anthony in the background.
Kari, Parker, and Michael- going for a surfboard ride.

Jakob, Mom and Anthony

We are sitting in the baby pool. It sits above the big kid pool. When it isn't being used as a baby pool it has a waterfall that overflows into the big pool. The temperature in the pool was 88+ and we had a big easy-up covering us- no sunburns for us.
Rori/Jaileigh, Amber/Jakey, Parker/Anthony, and Riley/Mikey

Have You Seen My Baseball?

Who Needs The Zoo? Come To Our House

The babies waiting patiently for Daddy to finish working on their little pool.

Michael, Jakob, Jaileigh, and Anthony

"Daddy are you almost done?"

Michael trying to squeeze in next to Jakob

"NNOOOOOO this is my spot~!" Jakob

"I AM going to win!" Michael

"I WIN"

Rori, Michael, Jakob, Anthony, and Amber.

Jaileigh was done swimming and hanging out with Grandma. Yes, there is water in the pool. About 3 inches. We filled in from our kitchen sink so it was really warm.