Family party time

My dad was taking pictures of us at my brother's house. I LOVE these ones of Marshall....HI mister blue eyes!

Every 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month we have dinner over at my families houses.  We usually rotate houses.  I haven't been able to since we live in the Condo but when we find a house.....we are back in! This time we were at my brother Ryan's house! I love hanging out with my family.....they are pretty fun!

Just me and the boys!

Marshall 11 months

WOW my busy little Marshall! He is getting so big! This month he stood up all by himself while holding on to the crib, he waves hi, he can sit up from a laying position, can climb up the stairs without falling and drinks out of a cup. The saddest thing is that he can crawl normal now.....I miss he cute little army crawl. He LOVES to get into EVERYTHING, he is a very curious little boy. He loves to be doing whatever his brothers are doing. He is still laughing and happy ALL the time. He still sleeps really well. WE LOVE YOU!

Ensign Peak

This is one of our favorite hikes to do on Sunday! It's just perfect for the boys & we get to see the whole valley and the temple. They boys love going there and are always asking "when are we going again?"

This picture cracks me up. My boys love to dress up as twins & I am not too fond of them dressing up alike. Of coarse because I don't like it they love to do it....so I give in every once in awhile. Then after I saw this picture I realized Kevin & I are TWINS!!! AHHHHHHH! After 10 years of marriage I guess you start dressing alike. It is funny though we do find ourselves dressed in the same color sometime. WEIRD :)

Pictures

The boys loves to watch the computer when the slideshow of all the pictures some on. They could sit there for hours. I love looking at the ones of them when they were SO little! Yes, we are still in our condo....12 months and counting. Hopefully we will find a house soon! Don't you just love the chair...it's my grandpa's office chair. All of our stuff is just a little of this and that!

A little grandpa time!

I think the title says it all! I LOVE my dad he's a really good grandpa! It was so awesome when my dad retired! He has always been a great and fun dad but..... he was just very busy all the time with worked and seemed a little stressed, as most of us are with work. Then he retired and he seems happier, calmer & seems to enjoy life a lot more! Marshall really loves him a lot and loves his iPad or anything that has to do with technology.....as most kids are!

Snow Cave

Kevin decided to take the boys up in Big Cottonwood to do some snow caving! They had so much fun, the boys talked about it forever. I LOVE when he takes the boys to do fun things like that. He is a great dad & is a kid at heart! They built caves under the picnic tables & used our kayak paddles for shovels :) Very cute!

However, I would have loved to go but I got to stay home with my cute 11 month old Marshall. I think he would have just been miserable. Marshall & I will go next year!

Snowborading

My cute hubby loves Snowboarding! He gave up the skis for the board & lives for powder days. His favorite place to board is Powder Mountain.....he says it is awesome! His friend from Indiana flies in every snow season to coming boarding & they go together. Kevin bought a Go-Pro this last Christmas and loves to use it for all his adventures that he does.

His friends mom lives in Huntsville so after a long hard day of play they are able to go to her house & get in the hot tub! Nice!

This way to the BEACH

We had a two day pass to Legoland but wanted to go to the beach instead that day. We actually drove to Legoland to see if it was crowded on a Friday....& YES it was! A lot more crowded.....so we decided it was better to go to the beach. The boys however wanted to go back to Legoland. It was funny when we got there Ethan said "you didn't tell me we were going to the Ocean, you just said the beach." "If I knew we were going to the Ocean I would have said yes!" Silly kid.....didn't know we needed to be more specific!

We had a fun time playing in the sand and writing out names. The picture on the bottom right was a tribute to PINTEREST!! I saw it on there and remembered it & it turned out cute. The boys thought I was so cool.....yes I am! :) SO......i actually did something I pinned! Boo-yah!!

We had fun running in and out of the water....I love this picture.

There were some other boys there....so the boys joined them with all their trucks and stuff. I LOVE the beach & could stay there all day. There is the one picture of me! As you can tell I was the photographer that day....so hardly any pictures of me....oh well! Also I was a dork and was really cold after I would run in the water so I was under towels for some of the time. but it felt good to have the sun on my face and to lay on the beach since it was cold back home! LOVE IT

Well as anything that is good must come to an end! It was a fabulous 7 days. I love that we left on a Sunday and came home on Saturday & had one day to recover before going back to life. I don't like when you come home from a vacation late at night and the next day you are back to reality. I need a day to vacation from my vacation!

LegoLand

Now onto LegoLand! This is our little beach Condo we had....very nice diggs! We went from the worst to the best hotel on our trip....it was nice to end it out with a nice condo! We even ate in one night and had a nice dinner. It was nice to eat there instead of going out again. I use to LOVE going out to dinner all the time but now that I eat better it's not so appetizing anymore...:( We gave the boys their Lightsabers in the morning....they loved it....but who wouldn't?

LEGOLAND! I think this place is really cool for kids that are younger. We figured since we made the trip to Disney we might as well drive to LegoLand. It was fun and the boys loved it. I love the picture on the top right were Ethan is checking out the girl....ooolala!! Ethan and Jackson had fun driving the cars.

All the rides are pretty scaled down for little kids and it was just perfect for our kids

I love looking at all the displays and characters they made with Legos. The Star Wars area was cool with life size Darth Vadar, R2D2......also the scene they made from Star Wars movies. They have also made little replicas of the Vegas strip from Legos, it was cool. The park was not crowded at all, I guess because we were there on a Thursday....it was awesome....no lines. Except for the roller coaster, all the bigger kids rode that over and over.....it was pretty fun. To end the day out we went out for Ice Cream.

2 days at Disney

What can you say about Disneyland.....nothing because these pictures speak for themselves! It was SO much fun & we LOVED every minute of it! Next time we will spend 3 days there instead of 2, totally not enough time. I love that we got to spend Valentine's day there......it was a good day!! We even saw 3 families we knew there....weird!

I loved taking pictures with all the characters! I was happy that there wasn't a long line for any of them. I guess it's good we have boys because they never wanted to stand in line for the princesses, however I would have loved to....but we got a picture with Mickey! Ethan and I were the only ones who wanted to take pictures with them.

Ethan got chosen to do the Jedi training......we were rushing there and I put him up on my shoulders and kept pointing to him so they would pick him....and it worked! I sacrificed my boy!! It was pretty cool and Darth Maul was awesome and CREEPY! Jackson was a little worried and wouldn't do it.....but Ethan loved it. We decided to buy the boys light-sabers before we left so we could give them to them because we thought they would be WAY too expensive there....but no......they were the cheapest thing there! Weird!! They were more expensive at Target.

We had fun on all the rides....the boys loved splash mountain and autotopia and the buzz ride was one of their favorites. Jackson and Kevin decided to try out the famous corn dogs there.....Jackson was a fan!

Ethan was just tall enough to go on the Indiana Jones ride, so he went with Kevin. They came back and Ethan was a little scared. After that I went on it by myself and thought it was pretty cool but could see why it freaked him out!

It was so nice in February because there was hardly any lines and it wasn't blazing hot! One of my favorite rides was the Tower of Terror!! We made the boys go on it as you can tell from the picture they weren't to fond of it. However, Kevin and I took turns trading off with the boys so we could ride the Tower over and over again!! LOVE IT!! It was raining that day when we were in California adventure......which was AWESOME.....because everyone else cleared out of the park and we didn't have to wait in hardly any lines and ride the rides over and over! LOVE IT! We were prepared for the rain, so it was no big deal for us! We got to take a picture by the new Cars Land. We debated whether to wait for it to open or just go...... obviously we just wanted to go and said we will go back in a couple of years to see the new Cars area......which I am EXCITED about!

This is one of my favorite pictures of the trip and I almost forgot to include it! (the bottom right) They were so excited to go on the pirates ride but as soon as we went underground they weren't too fond of it. They kept saying "is it dark outside?" "are we ever getting out of here........and on and on. It was pretty cute! My still all time favortie ride is the teacups! I don't know why but I LOVE them! Kevin went on it once and was done....too dizzy.....the boys and I went on it over and over. I love the lanterns that are hanging up too!

At the very end of the day we rode the Toy Story ride over and over and over and over.......the boys loved it & we thought it was pretty cool! While we would ride it we would take turns going on California Screamin'.....which had no lines!! It was awesome. We were going to see the World of Color but it was closed because of the rain :( Next time. To end out the day we rode the Mickey wheel.......that was a bad idea. Jackson decided he had had enough and was crying the whole time.....not a good ride to be stuck on with a crying kid! We left right when the park closed...the boys were really tired and we were driving and hour to Carlsbad to got to our hotel that night to go to Lego Land the day. This is how we transported the sleeping kids to the hotel room.....SWEET! BYE BYE Disneyland! See you in a few years!

Medieval Times Anaheim

We decided that night after we arrived in California to go to the Medieval Times. It was pretty cool. We had dinner and then watched the tournament. We were cheering for the red and yellow knight! It was fun to see them fight and do the different things. They boys thought it was fun to eat with no silverware.

They took a picture of us at the very beginning and them came around to show us and see if we wanted to buy it.......I hurry and snapped a quick picture of it and got caught......"no taking pictures of it, you need to buy it" but I got it! I thought I paid an arm for this I deserve the picture....naughty Lindsay!

Hotel Pepper Tree in CA

When we made it to California we got to our hotel. It was the Hotel Pepper Tree. It was a cute little Spanish apartments that were transformed into a hotel.

I thought the hotel was pretty cute. I like when they have a mini kitchen to buy food and keep it in there.

The boys thought the balcony was very cool and they loved to eat out there.

They saw the pool and really wanted to go swimming......well that didn't last too long because they were really cold, but they loved it while it lasted.

Disneyland here we come!!

We decided it was time to take the boys to Disneyland this year. They were so excited & I was SO excited too! The only sad thing is we decided to leave Marshall home with my family :( BUT he will be a lot happier at my parents! We went to Disney when we were first married & imagined taking our kids there.....and now it is happening......crazy! We left on Sunday Feb 12 after church on our way to Vegas for the night.

We usually rent a car when we drive to California. We have broken down once in the middle of nowhere and had to hitch hike with a trucker. I was in the back sitting on his sleeping bag and getting a nice coating of smoke all over me.....GOOD TIMES! So the car.....we love to put miles on someone else's car and when we go to the beach they can get it all sandy and eat in the car and I didn't have to care one bit....LOVE!

Why the picture of the banana you ask? Well......we had two little cameras and have broken both of them & didn't want to take my nice big camera to Disneyland.....so we just went to Costco & bought one the day before we left. We figured if we didn't like it we would just take it back, but we ended up loving it so.....it's ours & it's blue which i love. On the way I was having fun playing with the different modes on the camera & this is one of the pictures I loved that I took on the way...BEAUTIFUL :) Thanks Jami for LOLA....she was our Co-pilot for the trip....GPS. She is named Lola after the movie RV if anyone has seen it....funny....."take the next legal u-turn”.

We broke up the drive and stayed the night in Henderson, NV in the Fiesta Hotel for $18 for the night......Boo-ya! It still doesn't beat our $6 night at Buffalo Bills in Primm Valley.....yes six dollars! After we got up the next morning to make the drive to Cali we stopped at the local dollar store for some treats and pirate attire! Ye be warned......we are on our way!

My handsome driver signing to the music! Onward to Disney!!

Trains with grandparents & Easton

My nephew Easton is obsessed with trains! When the train expo came my parents were all over that to take Easton there. They decided to take Jackson along also.

HEAVEN.......a huge floor of tracks to build and trains!

I know that they had a great time. Jackson talked about it non stop that day. I know how much fun they have with their grandparents. Thanks ma & pa!!

Riley's Birthday

Our friend's little boy just turned 6 & we were invited to his awesome birthday. They rented a room at a bounce place, it was so much fun & the boys loved it! They are ready for the food!

Here is his awesome Cars cupcake cake! That is some major frosting :)

Here are the cute girls that were there.....Caroline, Ella and Claire

Thanks for the fun time there! Thanks Riley for inviting our boys!