Goggles

When I was in Oregon it was so hot so the kids had fun playing in the backyard at Ma2's house in the little pool and going down the slip-n-slide. We had one pair of goggles and they were a big hit all three of the kids wanted to wear them so we had to take turns. I thought they looked so cute and funny in them that I had to post their pictures.

Kallie wearing the goggles with crazy hair

Jaron wearing the goggles, he is a shark coming to get you

Kelsie wearing the goggles getting ready to dive into the pool

Lipstick

Another cute and funny story! While I was home in Oregon one day I was in my room talking to my sister Angie when i heard a thud in the bathroom I went in to see who was in there, I walked in and found my niece Kelsie standing on the toilet seat lid leaning over the sink trying to wash her hands. And on her hands and lips she had black stuff on them, I looked over and saw my mascara sitting on the counter. At first when I walked in and saw her she looked sad because she knew she was in trouble but then I said "were you trying to look pretty by putting lipstick on?" and she smiled and said "yes" it was so cute and after we washed her hands and lips off I realized I should have taken a picture of her with her pretty black lipstick on her lips!

Kelsie eating some yummy watermelon

Candy

While my nephew was staying with us in June we went over to Cody's parents house for Sunday dinner. Jaron had so much fun playing downstairs in the playroom for most of the time that we were there. But after we ate dinner we had dessert Jaron didn't want what we were having for dessert so Peggy said that Jaron could go to the Halloween candy drawer and pick two candies out. I have never seen the Halloween candy before and even I was in heaven, there were king size candy bars, and regular size candy bars. Jaron would pick a candy bar up and look at it then put it back, then there was me saying to Jaron to pick this one and that one but he didn't want any of the ones I told him to get. But then he sees this bucket full of candy so he takes a look in there and in there was little candies like Jolley Ranchers, Smarties, and Tootsie Rolls. Now Jaron was in heaven he picked out two small Tootsie Rolls and he was excited, he went in the other room to tell Peggy thanks for the candy. She asked him what he decided on and he should her and he said I will eat this one now and this one later tonight. It was so cute, Peggy thought he was so cute to have all those big candy bars to pick from and he choose two little Tootsie Rolls. He is one funny boy!

This is Jaron in the bathtub when he was in Utah staying with Cody and me.

Our Trip To New York

This last weekend we went to New York with Cody's Mom, Dad, Jess, and Ryan, it was my first time. It was so much fun we left Saturday morning and got there that evening we went to dinner, we ate yummy pizza. Then we went to our first Broadway Musical which was Little Mermaid and it was very good. The next day we went to Two Musicals the first one we went to was called In the Heights and then at night the boys went to Spam-a-lot and then the girls went and saw Legally Blonde it was so funny and us girls had so much fun.

Monday we went on a boat tour and saw the Statue of Liberty which was really neat looking. Once we were done with our boat tour we rented bikes and went for a wonderful bike ride around New York. We stopped for lunch at this place that had the most amazing tasting bread. YUMMY! The last day we were in New York we went to the top of the rock and then we walked through Central Park it is so big! We finished our trip in New York by eating so yummy New York pizza one last time before we left. New York was a fun trip and I am so glad we had the chance to go.

We were eating yummy cupcakes in the park

This was on the boat tour and we are in front of the Statue of Liberty

We rented bikes and went for a wonderful bike ride around New York

This is at the Top of the Rock with the Empire State Building in the back ground

This is Time Square

Our Trip To Europe

Our sixth stop was Athens, Greece. Where we went to the Acropolis and had a great tour by Dan Campbell and it was a great tour.

Once we got to the top there was a great view, we rented ATV's and drove them all around it was so fun. Before we ended our day in Santorini we went for a swim in the ocean it was fun.

Our fifth stop was Santorini, Greece where we rode donkeys up this huge hill to get to the town it was so much fun and funny to see what our donkeys were going to do next. I felt bad for them they had to climb up lots and lots of stairs with us on them they were breathing so heavy, but they were champs never giving up.

After the Italian farm we went to Pompeii to visit the world famous excavations

Our fourth stop was Naples where we went to a farm and had a tour and we watched this lady make mozzarell cheese and then we were able to sample it, Yummy!

Our third stop at Civitavecchia - Rome, where we saw the Coliseum it was so big and amazing

Our second stop was to Livorno where we saw the famous Leaning Tower

This was our first stop on our cruise Villefranche.

The whole family on the cruise ship

While we were in Barcelona we went to this market and ate breakfast there. I thought it was so neat they had vegetables, fruits, meats, and candy. This is a picture of candy it was pretty cool.

This is in Barcelona, it is a really neat building that was done by a famous guy named Gaudi.

This is the Eiffel Tower, this is the best picture that I could figure out how to put on my blog. The Eiffel Tower was amazing we went to the very top and it was pretty neat to look out over Paris.

Here we are at Hampton Court Palace

So we just returned from our adventure out of the country and it was a blast. We went to so many places and saw so many neat things. We took hundreds of pictures of everywhere that we went but I just wanted to share with you guys a few things that we saw. Well we started our trip off in London and we started early in the morning and went until late at night. We had to fit so much site seeing in such a short time so we had no time to waste. Once our time was up in London off we were to Paris the same applied for Paris as it did for London we had so much to see and do in little time. After we finished our time in Paris we headed to Barcelona where we meet Cody's mom and dad, we spent two days in Barcelona before hoping on the cruise ship to start a whole new adventure. On the ship we stopped at Villefranche, Livorno, Cicitavecchia -Rome, Naples, Santorini - Greece, Athens - Greece, Dubrovnik - Croatia, and then we ended our trip with two days in Venice. It was a great time and I will have the memories forever! Europe

Jaron helping in the kitchen!

Jaron washing his dishes from making his lemonade with the helmet on!

Jaron making some yummy lemonade wearing Cody's motorcycle helmet.

The last night that Angie's family was with us, Jaron found Cody's motorcycle helmet and he thought it was pretty neat so he asked Cody if he could wear it, Cody said yes and Jaron was so excited that he came into the kitchen where I was making some lemonade and asked if he could mix it. I thought that it was pretty funny that he was wearing this big helmet and just wanted to help in the kitchen. When he finished making the lemonade he wanted to do the dishes so he did that as well with the helmet on his head. Then it was time to go to bed so he asked Cody if he could sleep with it on. Cody said that it was OK, but when Angie went into check on the kids and saw Jaron trying to sleep with this over sized helmet on his head she said that he couldn't sleep with it on. I thought Jaron was so cute, wanting to wear Cody's helmet while he was helping me in the kitchen then wanting to wear it to bed.

Birthday Bash!

On June 26th it was my sister Angie's birthday and her family and her were in Utah visiting so for her birthday we went to Thanksgiving Point to a petting zoo. It was fun to look at all the fun animals that they had and to pet them. The kids and Cody loved it, Cody really enjoyed the roosters he was talking to them for awhile and they would come over to him and look at him and check it out it was pretty neat. After the animals they had a couple little old time buildings that you could go inside and play in. Kelsie loved running in them and just hanging out she thought it was pretty neat. One of the building's was a jail the kids got a kick out of being stuck behind bars. After we got everyone out of jail the kids went on a pony ride, they loved riding the pony's, what little kid wouldn't love to go on a pony ride. Before we left the kids were able to go on a hay ride which they thought was pretty cool!

After Thanksgiving Point, we went to a place called Jump On It! It is a place were they have just a ton of trampolines all over the place and you just jump. The kids loved it and Angie and I also had alot of fun. It was a lot of hard work, we only paid to jump for a half hour and 15 minutes into jumping I was so tired and out of it, but I didn't give in I kept jumping until the end of our time. Angie had a blast to and that is what mattered because it was her birthday and you have to have fun on your birthday!