Milestone Pictures

On Sunday my wonderful sister, Angie, took pictures of our kids. Kenzie's now 7 months, but we're saying these are her 6 month pictures and Zack will be 3 on June 7th, so these are his yearly pictures. They turned out perfect. Thanks again Ang for putting up with us. It really saved us a lot of $ with you doing this and they are better and totally what we wanted.

Enjoy:

California Family Vacation April 2010

The last week of April, we spent 6 fabulous days in California. We spent 3 days at Disneyland and the others just hanging out at the Los Angeles Temple, at the hotel pool, and doing tourist stuff. We had a blast and didn't want to have to come back to reality. We can't wait for another vacation hopefully soon. Enjoy the slideshow of our trip.

That's not Grandpa

Children are so smart and funny.

Everytime we go to Evanston to visit Paul's family, we go through Heber. On Main Street there is a park. At that park there is a statue of my great great grandfather, who founded Wallsburg, not quite sure why it's in Heber, but not the reason for the story. Anyway, everytime we drive by we wave to him on his horse. Zack has gotten into it and we've told him that he's his great grandpa. So, we were driving down Main Street in Springville the other day and there too is a statue of a man on a horse. Zack sees this and waves to him and says "Hi Grandpa!".

With a little chuckle, we tell Zack, "That's not grandpa." His response, "Yes, it is!" We go back and forth for a while and decide it's not worth arguing with an almost 3 year old. So everytime we drive down main street in Springville, he continues to wave and say hi to his "grandpa". They do actually look a lot a like, except for the size they are very similar. I took pictures of the two of them and I'll let you decide.

Heber - the real grandpa

Springville - not grandpa

What we've been up to

I really hate the internet sometimes. I've already done this post once before, but I got kicked off before I could finish and post it. Now I need to remember to save every once in a while.
Anyway...it's been a while I know. I'm just going to do a quick update by adding pictures and captions. They are in no order. Hope you enjoy...

Mom's (Shauna) Birthday party - January at our house

1/2 the grandkids playing cars. Zack, Isabella, Camden, Jaxon, and Jordan

Adri & Paul chatting with the adults.

Dave, Skyler, Jaxon, and Zack

The blanket that I made for my mom's birthday. Mom holding Mackenzie, Angie holding Baylee.

Mackenzie and Asher. Mackenzie is 2 weeks older than Asher, but so much bigger back then.

Easter dinner - Dave's family moved to Georgia just a couple days after this so it was kinda a going away dinner.

Dave, Brayden, & Paul in the adult conversation

Susan, Mom w/ Asher, Dad w/ Mackenzie

Jordan and Zack running in the back of my parent's house

Adri and Baylee

The 3 babies. Asher, not too happy, born Nov. 5; Baylee, born July 1; Mackenzie, born Oct. 20.

Easter morning: Zack, Paul, and Mackenzie

Zoo - March

Zack measures to be a juvinile and Paul much taller than an adult male

Zack, Paul, and Mackenzie in front of the elephant that spits

Paul & Zack by the giraffe's.

Jordan World Circus @ UVU - Jan or Feb??

Jaxon, Adri, & Baylee

Asher, Mom, and Susan

(back to front) Skyler, Camden, & Jordan

Mackenzie, Becky, Zack, & Paul

Just yesterday...hanging out on mom and dad's bed.

Our new addition to our family - Cinnamon

We got Cinnamon at the shelter in Spanish Fork. She is our outside cat that takes care of our vole (mouse/mole) problem. They have burrowed all over in our new grass in our back yard. We're not too happy about that.

Yard Adventures

We were able to get our fence up this year and with that we decided to get a play set for the kids. This took about a month to put up with all the other projects and aweful weather we were having. Zack loves it and mom is so excited to let him go outside and play and wont have to be chasing him all over the neighborhood with the fence in now.

Thanks to Chad, Maren, & Jack for all your help with the swing set.

Mackenzie's Room

This is just the beginning of her decorations that we are making. We are hoping to finish here soon. I'll post more when we do get it done.

Family Pictures

Well, it's been a while. I guess my excuse is still the same, we don't have internet at our house so I don't get to blog as much as I should. Anyway, we got Mackenzie's 3 month pictures done just Thursday (so she was really about 3.5 months and we're going to blame that on Kiddie Kandids since the went out of business and they did it the day we had an appointment) and we did our family pictures with Zack when he was 3 months so we decided to do the same with Kenzie. Enjoy the pics:

Mackenzie's Blessing Day

Sunday was a special day. Mackenzie Ann was given a name and a blessing by her dad. There were many people there to share with us in that special occassion and we wanted to thank all those that came. The weather was really bad so not as many as we had hoped would be there, but we thank you also for wanting to be there and we know you were there in spirit.
Mackenzie was so beautiful and so was her blessing. She was quiet the whole time. She slept - that really helped. Here are some pictures from that day of her and our family.