Swimming! (reunion)

Of course we went swimming!! It was so much fun. This year Adriann actually would go in the big pool all by herself. Of course she had to wear a life vest because she still can't swim, but it was nice to not have to hang onto her the whole time. She could go and swim with all the big kids and had such a great time. Kenyon on the other hand did not want to go into the big pool, so he and I just hung out in the kiddy pools and he loved it!

Riding bikes! (reunion)

Well luckily we had a place for our kids to ride their bikes in front of the house we were staying at because we tried to take them on a bike ride to the park.........Kenyon fell off his bike into a big bush, and Adriann was too scared to go down any of the hills. So this year we didn't do any bike rides. Oh well, the kids still had fun riding around the circle in front of the house. And Kenyon falling off his bike was more like he went of the bike trail and his training wheel got stuck in a bush and he slowly fell over into the bush. It was actually kind of funny because he just kept holding onto his handle bars and wouldn't let go until he had fallen all the way over into the bush.

Don't be jealous of our shirts!! (reunion)

These were the shirts that we all had for the reunion. It was actually really fun that all 80+ of us had them on and whenever we would all go anywhere everyone driving by would make comments. Nobody could believe that there were over 80 of us there. This picture was taken during one of the olympic games that we played each day. It was really fun to play games with all the families. The second picture of Akoni is him actually cheating at the game we were playing!! We had to carry one glass to a bucket and fill it with water and then do a swimming stroke on the way back and dump the water into a different bucket. Well as you can tell, Akoni has 2 cups!! It's okay, we were way ahead at this point, so it didn't really matter. And my uncle had taken his glass on his turn and thrown it on the opposing team, so really we deserved an extra cup of water!

Golfing! (reunion)

One day Akoni, my brother, my dad and brother-in-law all went golfing. They had a great time just having fun!

Princess and Pirate Parties! (reunion)

My Grandma had a Princess party for all the granddaughters. It was so cute, they each got tiaras, boas, and a cute little purse. She also fed them lunch on a castle placemat that they got to decorate with princess stickers. They also played pin the kiss on the frog, and played a game where they sat on pillows and one had a golf ball in it which represented a pea, and so if the girls could tell which pillow had the pea in it, that meant they were a real princess!! It was so fun for the girls. She put so much effort into the party and it was such a hit.

Then my Aunt had a Pirate party for all the boy grandkids. It was so fun, they went on a treasure hunt, got pirate names and the cute outfits that kenyon has on. All the boys had a great time and kept saying that they should go and attack the princess party!!

Family Pictures, and final reunion entry.

Here are some pictures of our family before we went and had some professional photos taken. We actually got a picture with all 80+ people that came to the reunion, but I don't have a copy of that picture. The photo's are: 1-Adriann and Paige with Uncle Matt, 2-All 5 grandkids, 3-Adriann and Kenyon with my Grandparents, 4-Our family, 5-My whole family.

Adriann's 2nd Tooth

Adriann finally pulled out her second bottom tooth that has been loose forever and the permanent tooth is already in behind it!

Adriann's School

Well here are some pictures of Adriann's school. It's Friday and so they can wear anything that they want to school, so I don't have the pictures of her in her uniform back yet. The pictures are of her in front of the school, at her desk, and with her teacher Mrs. Tope.

Another funny thing Adriann did at school

So the first day of school for Adriann we had to go to the office to check her in. The second day of school she had a dentist appointment in the morning so we had to go to the office to check her in. On her third day of school I decided to just drop her off at the curb because it lets her off RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER DOOR. So I asked her if she knew where to go and I pointed to her door and she said yes. She she got out of the car, shut the door and ran in the opposite direction to the OFFICE!! I thought it was so funny because I guess that's the only way she knew how to get to her class. So I had to go and park my car and go into her class to make sure that she made it and she did. It was pretty funny!! So today I had to make sure that she knew exactly where to go when I dropped her off and she ran right to her door!

Okay, I finally finished the book.

I won't spoil the book for anyone else that didn't finish it in the first week. I can't believe it took me so long to read it!! I kept reading it really slow because I hate when a series of books ends, so I wanted it to last as long as it could. But, the end is sooo good and so I had to finish it. WEll I must say that i LOVED the book. Did everyone else? And if you don't know what book I'm talking about then I must not know you! just kidding. Anyway, I am so sad that it's over, but I'm glad that it's the kind of series that I could read a few times.

But now I don't know what to read? Any suggestions?

I have a Kindergartner!

Did I even spell that right? I can't believe that Adriann is in Kindergarten. So it was kind of funny when I picked her up from school today. I'll back up, she was actually supposed to start last week, but we were out of town in Oregon, so she had her first day today. And we still don't have a camera, but we bought a disposable, so when I get the CD back from it when it gets developed I'll post pictures of our trip and school. So back to Adriann's first day of school. I guess that I never thought I had to teach her lunch bag etiquette. When I picked her up I opened up her enormous backpack and checked to see if she had even eaten any of her lunch. Inside I found an opened cup of applesauce and a not empty capri sun!! Did she not know that she should have thrown it away? Did she think it wouldn't spill? I had to laugh because I guess I never thought that I had to tell her those kind of things! Which gets me to thinking, what else am I forgetting to tell her that she should know? Oh well, all in all she had a great first day and was surprisingly NOT shy if you can believe it! AND, both she and Kenyon were dead asleep before 7:30! I am loving this school thing!

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Fun with my Sister!

My older Sister Andrea is visiting for the past couple days before we all head out for Oregon on Friday. We had a fun day yesterday at the beach looking at hermit crabs. Today we went to the Aquarium and then to another beach and played in the sun since it was sooo nice today. All the kids got sunburnt, oops, but it was a ton of fun!

2 DAYS LEFT!!!!!

I am so excited for SATURDAY!!!! Breaking Dawn comes out and I can't wait!! We're heading for Oregon tomorrow, so hopefully I have time to get some reading done, but who knows if that will happen. I'll write about our trip when I get back!! Hope everyone has fun this next week!

What a big girl!

Well Adriann can finally ride her bike without training wheels! She has spent the last couple of days riding her little bike because she won't ride her new bike that we got her because the training wheels bend and so the bike is lopsided. So she just kept riding the little one with no training wheels and can finally ride it without falling! So we took the training wheels off the big bike and she is loving it! She just sits in the garage and rides circles all day!

So yesterday Kenyon told me the cutest thing and it made me so happy. He said "Mom, I love going to church, it makes me soooo happy!" I'm gonna write that down because I'm sure that when he's older he won't have as much enthusiasm as when he was 3!

At least we know it's hard to break in!!

So we have our bedroom door as a locked door so we can lock the kids out at night. It's not so we can get frisky, I can't stand them sleeping with us because they are both kickers and I don't really want to be peed on by Kenyon. So today I am babysitting my friends two kids and I locked both sets of keys to our bedroom in the bedroom!! Well long story short, our bedroom cannot be broken into. My friend Sarah's husband Joe tried and could not get into the sliding glass door to our bedroom. The only other option was to take the screen off of the tiny bathroom window above the shower and put my friend's son Slate thru the window so that he could unlock the door from the inside. The reason we chose to send Slate thru the window is because he is tall and skinny and so there was less distance from the window to the floor of the shower for him to fall. So it all went to plan and we were able to get back into our bedroom!!

Carmel Carmel Everywhere, Why did you put it in your hair?

So I fell asleep on the couch which right there means BIG TROUBLE awaits when I wake up!! Well I woke up to: Carmel squirted ALL OVER MY CARPET!! And the kids had walked all thru it, so it was ALL OVER MY CARPET! Then I walked into the bathroom and they were sitting on the counter squirting it in their hair! I'm not sure why, but they did. WEll the rest of my night was horrible and that's all I'm gonna say because I really don't want to relive it all. But I will say, that I now hate carpet and I wish I could have ripped it all out because carmel does not come out of carpet without scrubbing for about 4 days.

Adriann's Highlights

No, not cool things that she has done, yes actual highlights in her hair!! My friend Ember, who's in the pictures, does my hair, and she had some blond left over from my friend's hair that she was also doing, so she put some highlights in Adriann's hair!! I have wanted to do it, but I always thought that Akoni would flip out, but he was the one that actually said that morning, "Are you going to have Ember put some highlights in Adriann's hair?" So I said "Yessss!!!!" My friend had to take the pictures since I still don't have a camera, and so I don't have a picture of her with her hair dry, but you still get the idea, it's so cute!!!! And that's the first thing that she says to everyone that she sees now, "Do you see my highlights?" What have we done!

4th of July!!!

Well our 4th was sooo much fun. We started the day by having a flag raising/Breakfast at our church. Since I am on the activities committee, my friend Anita and I went and set up the night before. I would post a picture, but of course I still don't have my camera, but it looked soo cute. We had all the tables set up with red, white and blue table cloths. Then we (and a lot of helpers, thank goodness) made Pancakes, sausages and hashbrowns for about 100 people! It was so fun. Well I thought it was, it was very crazy in the kitchen, but I think it was a success!!

Then we all went home and rested.

Later we went and had a BBQ at our bishops house which was so fun. Then we headed over to Gilroy High School to watch the fireworks. It was a blast!! Okay, I know that's lame. But it was great. We sat right by the baseball field and they had all the fireworks set up on the baseball field. We were so close that you could feel the fireworks! It was kind of scary too because one of them malfunctioned and flew straight at where we were sitting. Thank goodness the fence was there!! So here is a video of the grand finale!!