Sprinkler fun in February!

This is how Emily spent her morning while the boys were in school. It is Feb. 27th and the sun was nice and warm. As much as I do not want to live here forever, Southern California does have its perks!!

More Disney

In the Lego store at Downtown Disney.
The Bryans.
This was Holly's first time at Disneyland and the weather was not so fun.

Eli did not like the Nemo ride so much.

Next time we will start with the train instead.

Eating Taco Bell in the car.

Disneyland

Feb. 9 2009

Emily and her favorite princess Snow White.

She got to meet three princess and we only had to wait 45 mins. She was so happy and excited it was worth the wait.

Dumbo in the rain.

As you go around and around it whips you in the face. The things we do for our kids!!

I was trying to get a picture of them all looking at me smiling. I took five and this was the best one. Aperently they were not in the mood for a picture.

Our Rec center had a Father/Daughter Dance the weekend before Valentine's day. Emily was so excited to be going on a date with Daddy.

Her dress was the one my sister wore to my wedding 9 years ago. It has been hanging in her closet for a few years waiting for a special day to wear it.

Making mommy a Valentine's card at the dance. I was sad I could not go and watch them, she had a lot of fun and ate a ton of desserts!

She had her hair in curlers all day and picked out special jewelery to wear. She said she looked like a princess.

Our front yard and our giant sunflowers. They grew higher than the roof and got too heavy and fell over, but they were pretty while they lasted!

The date on these pictures is wrong, they were taken at the beginning of December this year, Cali winters are great, summers not so much!

At the zoo in Bakersfield, you can see the fog a little in the photo, driving from Bakersfield to Taft the visibility is about 3 feet, we can barely see the lines on the road just outside the window most nights. It reminds me of the scary movies that I don't watch!

My boys on their first day of school. Logan was very excited he got his own locker. Aidan felt more comfortable walking into kindergarten with his shades on. They are now two weeks into it and Aidan loves it. Logan is a little harder to please and thinks first grade is boring. He is reading his homework books upside down to show us how easy it is. Hopefully it gets more challenging for him soon. They both already have new best friends. Girls of course, I think it's their hair!! Emily has also started preschool and this has given mommy 2 mornings a week with no children. It is amazing how much housework can get done in a short amount of time with no children to entertain. Aaron starts school in the middle of September and we are enjoying his time while we have it. We won't see to much of him for the next year and then he will be a grown-up!!!

Emily's 3rd Birthday

Just being Cute!

Logan does have buttoms on.

I guess they do like eachother.

Having Fun.

I now that we can not keep up. At least we are updating this twice a year. Things have been crazy around here even with the kids out of school. Logan is now a first grader and Aidan a kindergartner. We are going to try and get Emily in pre-school, even though Mandy does not necesarrily want to be home alone. Everyone is enjoying their summer wherever they may be. Mandy took the kids to Canada for July and left me in Taft while the kitchen and bathroom get remodeled. I will be leaving to head up there the end of the month. We have used the pool often in the sweltering heat. We had a couple of consecutive days above 100 degrees, with some days reaching over 110 degrees. Can't wait for the Fall. That is all for now.

Well it is almost Christmas time and things are busy. I finished my first quarter at CSUB and am glad to only have five more to go. It is tough to manage school and family but it helps to have a good family. Logan is in kindergarten and has the same teacher that I had in kiundergarten. He loves it and has already met his wife, or so she tells him. Aidan loves the pre-school,much more than his parents, he was attending. He will not be going back after the break because we sent him to CANADA to visit the family and he misse to many days. Emily wishes she could be in pre-school and we will be putting her and Aidan on the waiting list to go back to where Aidan was at. Mandy enjoys being the school mom and tries to get to every meeting that she can along with volunteering for everything. I still enjoy sports, nothing has changed.

Here are some pictures of our recent trip to Disneyland with our friend's the Button's and Mandy's mom.

The kids were excited to meet Mr. and Mrs. Incredible.

Logan was having fun as Peter Pan.

Aidan is just being Aidan while trying to be Woody.

Emily was a Priness, well at least most of the time.

This was the best I could do, at the moment, for a picture of all the kids.

Well we have finally gotten kind of settled from our move to Taft from Rexburg. We enjoyed our first two weeks at the beach where the weather was quite nice and we got to do lots of relaxing. We have been working on getting our place ready so that we can move in. Grandma Dewing has a lot more stuff than we anticipated, but we are making progress. Aaron did get accepted into all of the programs that he wanted to, so he should no have to work while he is going to school.

We are currently living with his parents and plan on moving out smoetime in August. That way we can be settled by the time Aaron and Logan start school. Logan will be in kindergarten and will hopefull have the same teacher that Aaon had when he started school here many years ago. We can not even mention school to Logan because he wants to go so bad that he will not stop talking about it.

Here are some pictures from or last couple of months in Rexburg. Hope you enjoy!

Logan and Aidan at their pre-school graduation.

Logan with his soccer medal.

The awesome cake Mandy made for Aidan's 4th B-day.

Emily as she ran from the BEAR.

Friends!!

Hope you enjoyed the pictures.

Well it has been a while but I was reminded about this a couple of days ago. So I figured since the family is on vacation, I would make some small changes. Logan and Aidan have been in pre-school for t\a while now and really enjoy it. Emily is getting bigger and talking really well. She just wants to be like her brothers. Mandy is being a wonderful mother and housewife. I have graduated and been working for about 3 months now. I was just accepted to Grad school at CSUB, so we are more than likely on our way to California.

The snow came and the boys played. They made snow balls and threw them at Mandy, you can hopefully see there snowman and the attempt to make snow angels from the pictures. It was alot of fun. The snow just kept coming also. All they want to do is go play. Emily has yet to play in it though, hopefully we can get some good pictures of her playing in it.

Here are some pictures from the Halloween Party at the school. The kids had fun dragging us to the various booths and games. The boys did have wigs to match their costumes but they were getting in the way of all the fun to be had. Emily is almost walking, we hope it will happen in the next month. Aaron says that we can add video to this, so if we can then we will be sure to put it on here.