San Diego Beach Trip--July 2010

We went to San Diego this summer for a fun trip to the Beach with Brad's side of the family. His mom Lisa puts this together for everyone and it is always so much fun. It's so great that the cousins are starting to get older, so they can play more on their own with one another.

One of the days Lisa rented these fun electric boats and kayaks for everyone to try. The kids loved it.

Kristen and sweet baby Gwen

We took a boat cruise one evening. It was so cute, they had all these fun dance activities for the kids. Here are Brad and Lucy striking their best dance pose.

All the cousins, minus little Wesley

One of the days Brad took Lucy back to our room for a nap and this is what we found. Her sprawled on top of him with a very sandy bum. It was the cutest and they were both out cold. I don't even know how he could sleep like this.

Our hotel had a cute little area where they kept rescued seals. Believe it or not, these seals were all blind. Kind of crazy.

Lucy and Clara sharing Oreos

Tree climbing time...thanks to the spotter, Uncle Scott

Lillie and Jackson, looking so big! These two used to drive each other crazy in their younger days. It's so fun to see all the cousins having so much fun together.

Lucy and Davis sharing some very sandy cookies

The bearded man and the pregnant lady

Our hotel had a private beach on the bay. Perfect place to hang out with the little kiddies. No waves and no crowds.

Lucy giving her best beach babe pose

Thanks again to Lisa for always putting together a great trip!

Random Day

One of our random days of summer ended up in the making of this YUMMY Strawberry Shortcake Cake. Don't get too excited, this is NOT turning into a food/recipe blog. I am not that talented. We stole this recipe from the Pioneer Woman. It is one of those recipes that is soooo yummy, but is quite involved, so maybe for a special occasion. Our special occasion that day happened to be the cravings of a pregnant lady :)

Ours turned out looking a little less perfect than hers, but it sure tasted good.

Do these crazies really need any more sugar?

4th of July 2010

We had a fun 4th of July this year. Saturday started out with a ward bike parade/pancake breakfast. The breakfast was held in the backyard of a family in our ward. It was the coolest backyard. I wish I had taken a picture of the yard. Tons of grass, a pool area, playground area with sand, basketball court, huge covered patio....The kids had so much fun. It would have been even more fun if it wasn't a million degrees outside! Even at 7 am.

Lucy and I were a little late to the bike parade and totally missed getting picks of all the kids, so I made them reenact it in the driveway when we got home.

After we got home from the ward breakfast, we decided we needed a break from the heat and packed up for an impromtu trip to my parent's cabin. Payson has a cute little (I mean LITTLE) 4th of July parade that we went to downtown. The girls loved all the old fashioned cars and especially all the candy that was thrown in the streets for them to grab.

One of our favorite things to do at my parent's cabin is to take the golf cart down the road to Christopher Creek. We love to throw rocks in the water, hike around, and most of all catch Krawdads!

Don't worry, no Krawdads were hurt in the making of these memories. We like to put them on the rocks and watch them throw themselves back into the creek.

*Happy 4th of July*

(3 moths ago)

Lillie's Mother's Day Preschool Program

Our sweet little (getting bigger by the minute) Lillie "graduated" from preschool and started kindergarten this school year. Here are some pics and a video from her end of the year/Mother's Day program at Ms. Arlene's house. She had a fabulous preschool teacher if anyone is looking for someone in Mesa. Lillie was reading by the end of the year with this awesome lady.

Mother's Day Bouquet
They all sang "I am a Builder" and wore these cute hats

Nana Darlene was able to come and watch and of course entertain Lucy

One of Lillie's speaking parts that she memorized

The Ocean: By Abbie Randall

One of Abbie's end of the year projects in First Grade was a diarama. She chose the ocean and did such a cute job. If you feel like you need to brush up on some facts about the Ocean, then here is Abbie reading her report.

Writing Award

At the end of the school year we were able to go to the district writing awards ceremony for Abbie. Her teacher submitted a story she wrote about her most embarassing moment and Abbie won Honorable Mention (2nd place) for the 1st grade out of the whole district. We are so proud of her! Maybe we have an author in the making :)

Unfortunately my camera must have been on a weird setting because all my pics turned out terrible.

Abbie with her WoNdErFuL teacher Ms. McIntyre. Her and Abbie had a special bond, it was really sweet.

Receiving her award.

1st of many....

It has been sooooo long since I posted anything on our blog. We had such a fun/busy/stressful summer, so I think it's time to begin the first of many posts from this summer. So, here we go...

First, Brad's darling cousin Lauren got married to her sweetheart in the Mesa Temple. It was great seeing all of the Randall Family that was able to come into town for the wedding. Especially Jenna and her cute kids. We had so much fun with her, Davis, and Gwen.

Lillie, Lucy and Davis at the Tempe Beach Park. Abbie unfortunately missed out on a few things because she was still in school.

Roasting marshmellows at Nana Lisa's

PARK!

Gwen is the cutest happiest baby on the planet. This girl is so sweet!

Abbie and Davis trying their best over the shoulder pose.

Brad did an intership this summer with a law firm in downtown Phoenix. Here he was looking all fancy for his first day. He just LOVED us taking all these pics with him.

Toward the end of the school year, I was able to go on a field trip with Abbie to the Phoenix Zoo. It was so much fun to spend time with just Abbie and see her interact with her cute friends.

Bus ride! Not so much fun with a sick prego belly. I was still in my first trimester.