Good times!

So Tyler has been an Cardinals fan forever and we've always talked about trying to go to one of their games in Pheonix, and we finally made it. Ty has actually been to one before this with one of his good friends who happen to have season tickets, but it was fun this time cause we went with my brother Rand and his wife Tracy, then we met my other brother Kade and his wife Maddie down ther(they live in Mesa). It was our first NFL game and not to mention our seats were fourth row in the endzone! It was a very stress free and kid free mini vacation. Just what we needed. We did some shopping, yapping and relaxing. The guys, of course, enjoyed a few rounds of golf. The day we got there we went to Kades seminary class and sat through about a half hour of one of his classes. I love to listen to him teach. He does such an awesome job. We got to hang out with our cute little niece Livi and love on her. I love hanging out with my brothers and im so, so glad they married who they married. We all get along so well and always have so much fun together. We did miss Nate and Candice, and Jeff and his future wife, who ever she is! Were hoping to make many more trips down there with everyone cause there is nothing like good football and great family!

Pee Pee in the potty, pee pee in the potty

Im so proud to announce that are little guy is potty trained. Ill admit that i was terrified to do this but hes done so good and it was not bad at all. It was much easier than ive heard it being. Hopefully when its Quins turn it will be just as easy. Im so proud of him for wearin big boy underoo's!

California!

The end of july we took a vacation to california and went to disneyland, the beach, and a dodgers game. its completely picture overload and they are backwards. The very bottom is of day one and it moves up from there. These pics are of our last day in Califonia adventure which is way better than disneyland. We had a blast and the kids were awesome.

Quiny playing in the water and loving it.

Our little bear. Dont ya just love those eyes?!

Ty and Quiny...she threw up after this one. She had one to many rides in a row.

This is DAY THREE! Im so glad my kids are water babies. They had the best time here. I dont remember what beach this was but it was way nice and and we had so much fun here. The kids were glad to be somewhere they could run around. Later that night we went to downtown disney and got some dinner. I love downtown disney at night. They have live bands and not to mention the weather is perfect that time of day/night.

Nixon and his "serf berd". Not really a surf board but we didnt tell him that.

This is DAY TWO and day one at disneyland. This is actually breakfast with Goofy. You get to meet some of the characters here. They had a good time with this. They were a little hesitant at first with the characters but soon warmed up to em!

Nix got a little bashful here with Snow White.

Tylers sister Reese and Dale.

Waiting to be sat.

Our Dolly Doll...

...and Nixon

She got a little tuckered out at Disneyland. Im so glad she napped there. She usually wont fall asleep anywhere but her bed.

With Grandma PP and grandpa.

Nixon with his weapon of choice...his ferd (sword)

DAY ONE- so when we arrived to cali we got setteled into our "nice" hotel and then we headed for los angeles to watch the dodgers play. to be honest i was quite worried about how our kids would be for this because the previous day was not a good one. they just werent feeling the travels. But to our surprise they did awesome and it was the first of many good days. they did so good and they had so much fun. Our seats were in left field (behind Manny, of course) and it was shaded and no one was sitting in front of us so the kids had all the room in the world to play. it was a blast.....Did i forget to mention that we got lost in LA after the game. we only drove around for an hour lost.

We are huge manny fans... he'll always be a Red Sox in our eyes:-)

July Shinanigans!

This year on the 4th we just did the usual and stuck around cedar. Of course we attended the ever exciting parade and park then after the guys had a golf tourny. It was a pretty good time and the kids had fun.

On the 3rd of July was my nieces birthday so we loaded up and headed to Richfield to have a pool party. There was also a three on three tourny fundraiser that my brother does every year for the basketball program and my hubby, dad, nate, and kade all partook in a little b-ball action. We had so much fun and it was fun to have the entire fam(except for Jeff) together cause it doesnt happen to often.

the birthday girl Hallie