Field Trip with Dillan

Today I went on a field trip with Dillan's class to a musical at the Scera about the Frog and Toad books! It was AWESOME!! Everyone in the play was AMAZING!!! It was so fun!! Dillan fell asleep about 3/4 of the way into it but I think he liked it! I just wish we had seen the production sooner because the last performance is this Friday and I wish I could go see it again but this week is too nuts!! :( Anywho, if you have the time between now and Friday... GO SEE THIS!! It is only about an hour performance, so not super long, and it is soo dang cute! I think even younger kids would enjoy it! My pictures aren't the best because I didn't want to use flash and disrupt the Q&A they had at the end but hopefully you will get the general idea! :) The people that played the birds also played 5 different characters each! They were amazing! They also played squirrels, moles, a snail, a mouse, Momma frog, Papa frog, and baby frog, a turtle and a lizard... and probably more but I don't remember all for sure! The snail was the BEST! He was played by the guy in the middle of the birds. :) My favorite characters were the snail, frog, toad and the turtle (played by the bird lady in blue).

Draper Temple

I just have to rave about my kids! hehe We went to the Draper Temple open house last week and I was SOOOOO impressed with our kids!! They are soo awesome! We had a group of about 8 adults behind us in line and they were spitting straws at each other and making jokes and laughing really loud, it was ridiculous! (I am evil and I hope one day they go and try to take their children to something like that and have immature bratts setting a bad example behind them!) Anywho, our kids, Dillan 6, Tyson 8, Britt 12, and Cory 14, were so reverent, we had people commenting the ENTIRE time about how reverent they were and especially Dillan and Tyson! Everyone just kept looking at them and smiling really big because they are so well behaved! In fact, one lady said she thought they would make fabulous missionaries someday!! Anywho, I am so proud! When I asked Dillan which room was his favorite he said, "The room with the diamond lights!" (He meant the Celestial room.) We talked about how lucky he and Tyson are to be able to see the inside of a temple at their age and how they most likely wouldn't have another opportunity until they go on a missions or get sealed (well except for baptisms for the dead). I just hope that they remember everything they saw and (once we got away from the obnoxious group behind us) the peaceful feelings they had! They all got a little pamphlet and have read them cover to cover and talked about all the different rooms and how pretty they all were! Woot for good kids! :)
Cory and Brittany have the opportunity to go do baptisms for the dead on the 21st and they are VERY excited!! (Especially Brittany, her dad wanted to go four-wheeling that weekend and she wanted to go to the temple instead, even though she has been DYING to ride her new four wheeler! hehe) I am forever amazed at the things my kids do and say! I love them all VERY much!! :)

DISNEYLAND!!

WOOT!! We spent last week in Disneyland!! It was SOOO fun!! We were supposed to come home Tuesday but stayed until Wednesday because we were having so much fun! We stayed at the Portofino Inn which is just down the street from Disneyland so we were able to walk there every day without having to worry about parking etc. and they were VERY nice and upgraded our room for free because the people above us were SUPER loud the first night. We ended up staying in a little three bedroom suite which was twice the size of the kid's suite we originally were supposed to stay in! The kids and Matt LOVED the pool too and spent quite a few hours down there!

The first two days in the park were a little rough for Tyson as you will see by the pictures. He has the "incredible sulk" face in most of the pictures from the first day. He spent most of the time whining and crying because EVERY ride scared him (including Peter Pan) but, once we got him to ride each ride at least once, he was good after that! We went to California Adventure (which none of us had ever seen before) and the first ride we rode was the Hollywood Tower of Terror. Let me tell you, Tower of Terror is an understatement! It was freaking awesome! When we got off none of us could really walk well because we were shaking so bad but it was worth every minute! LOL Tyson had a complete meltdown afterwards and was yelling at Matt and I and saying that we were trying to kill him. LOL Matt said he had never seen someone's face SO ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED until he saw Tyson on that ride! Poor kid! I had to bribe him with two containers of Tic Tacs to get him to ride it again but once he rode it a second time we went 2 more times after that and he loved it and even said it was kinda boring the last time! LOL

On Monday, we went to Huntington beach and saw the ocean. It was FREEZING and after walking out to the water I went back to the car to get warm while Matt and the kids walked out on the pier. We ate at a place called Dukes while we were there and Cory, Tyson and I all got food poisoning so it is good we took a day and stayed longer! Good info for anyone going to the beach in Cali, if you plan on going to a resturant by the beach... don't buy burgers at a seafood resturaunt!

It rained a few times but we were able to time everything so we either had fast passes or only had to wait about a half an hour to get on every ride! We also invested in some hand warmers and that made all the difference in keeping everyone warm! Matt bought some AWESOME ponchos for us before we left so we stayed pretty dry for the most part and they came in handy when we rode Grizzly Rapids or as the boys like to call it Grizzly Rabbids! hehe Anywho, it was TONS of fun! (minus the barfing Tuesday morning and Dillan's puking all the way home.. hehe) But hey it wouldn't be a vacation without some hiccups right?
There that is all our pics... well most of them anyways!! Enjoy! :)

Trip to Whitewash

I know I should have gotten this up a LONG time ago but I am a slacker! We went on a trip to Whitewash with the Burr family last year, and it was AWESOME!! Absolutely gorgeous and SOOOO fun we actually stayed an additional day! (We always bring TONS of food so that wasn't a problem! hehe) Anywho, here are some pictures from that trip (and maybe a video if I get brave, since it is of me.. hehe) Dillan was a NUT when we let him drive Britt's machine! It was either go or stop, nothing in between! hehe Tyson however is VERY cautious, VERY slow and VERY deliberate! Poor Britt has outgrown her machine so, lucky her, she got a new one for her 12th birthday but she hasn't driven it yet! Cory wasn't real happy about riding a bike there, but for the first 2 days he was able to ride one of Doug's 4 wheelers and he LOVED that! I was told (after the fact) that one of the rides they went on was really intense and scary and Cory was driving down some stuff that none of the girls would drive down, only hike, or in some cases slide on their bums down. Lisa told me she was telling Doug, Camie will NEVER forgive us if we kill her son (if that gives you any idea how bad it was). I think I am glad I wasn't there! Britt, Tyson and I, only like to drive down and around the nice smooth NONscary parts! hehe We did have a small hiccup while we were there... Cory tried to ride his bike up this INSANELY steep rock and ended up wheely-ing (is that a word?) his bike over but, he jumped off and got out of the way safely! He was actually standing on the rock with his bike in the air above him for a little while and Matt and I both yelled "let it go!" and he did thank goodness! Lucky for him too it only bent a few parts (he had a fin similar to one's they have on cars for a little bit on his rear fender) but Matt quickly fixed it all! YAAAY! Anywho, we are going back for spring break and I CANNOT wait!!

I know it doesn't look steep in the video but IT WAS!! I was sooo scared, but proud that I drove down it! :)

Here is video of the kids just driving around. Cory is on his bike, Britt on my machine, Tyson on his and Dillan on Britt's all while Matt was packing everything on the trailer. (He is VERY particular and we can't do much to help, sooo we RIDE! hehe

Britt and her Flute

Brittany loves playing any instrument and this year she is playing the flute. Her band teacher is HORRID and doesn't do very well and we are looking forward to getting her into Mapleton Jr. High this next year so she can have a better opportunity to learn and play it better. Her concert this last year was pretty interesting. There were only 2 other girls playing flute and so it was very difficult to hear the flutes. :( We were fairly disappointed with the program in general but we were able to hear a solo flute part and Britt was awesome!! Too bad all the other instruments were there! haha Poor Britt... Anywho, here are some photos of our gorgeous flute player!