Monterey

Lexies Family has a beach house in Monterey, Ca and we were able to stay there for a week and play it was awesome! Everyone had a blast and i think the next two bloggings will have taken place in Monterey.

The of these being all the kids playing in the sand.

Baby Luke had just as much fun playing in the sand as the big kids.

Abby was afraid of the waves, so we said hi to them as they came in to see us. It worked after a while the coming and going of the waves was no longer the main event. She could play in the sand without being worried about where the waves were.

Abby and her cousins Joshua and Callie spent a lot of time playing in the sand in the backyard.

Daddy and Trevor even got into the spirit of the beach-like backyard.

Monterey was a blast!

It should definitely be added to the rotation of annual holiday events ; )

Just keep Swimming...

Welcome to the Seattle Aquarium, via my blog!

Okay right when you walk in the aquarium there is a huge tank that has hundreds of fish in it and Abby stood about like this for the first half hour just watching all the fish go around. It was hard to convince her that there were more fish and that we could come back after we were done if she wanted to, we never sis make it back.

I think that this was the aquariums most prominent fish, I swear i saw Dorri everywhere harassing all the nice big fish. It was it was poking all the fish it was around and running away, a lot like a 4 or 5 year old will do.
Caleb loved this fish, I think it's called a Tiger fish if I'm remembering right.

This is an Octopus peeking around the corner at us he was pretty shy it was hard to get a very good picture but he was fun to watch and as he slithered around the rocks.

Abby was able to touch the sea creatures, I actually think that is my hand but we couldn't get Abby to leave this section once she figured out that you could pet the fish. All the poor little sea stars and other soft little creatures where subject to her excitement. SHe had a blast, I think we were there for almost an hour petting things. It was pretty cool, this thing (in the above picture) grabs on and wraps around your finger but you can't really feel it even though your watching it do it. Creepy but totally cool.

Ahh, Scot we love you. This was how Scot enjoyed the aquarium, it was awesome! He went from bench to bench throughout the whole thing. He was on baby duty, Trevor was fantastic. He slept through almost the whole thing, he woke up for lunch.

That was our Aquarium Adventure in Seattle, stay tuned for more summer fun.

I promise I will post the rest our summer adventures soon....

Solo

While we were in CA for Spring Break there were baby horses born and sadly one of the babies born was rejected by his mom. So fittingly Trino named him Solo. Despite the sad situation of being rejected by his mom Abby had a blast going with Grandma to feed him his bucket of milk, which in this case is a dog dish. So without further ado, meet SOLO.

Lunch is served.

Abby and Alina made a haystack in the middle of the stall naturally Solo had to see what these cute little girls were doing.

After his lunch he had a good run around the stall.

He then took a nap I'm sure, I would have.

Spring Break

Over Spring Break we were able to go to California to visit my side of the family and while we were there we had our own little photo shoot of the kids with daddy. I think we got a few good pictures.

Abby was being cute with an old cane she found lying around, I think Grandpa was hoping to be able to throw it away.

We decided to go out to the ponds, and if I do say so myself, it turned out to be a decent background.

Here is a shot of Trevor he's 2 1/2 months in this picture. He's pretty cute out there balancing on Daddy's hand.

I had to add this one, Abby didn't realize I was still taking pictures and I

got caught!

We also had to get a few shot's of Abby with Comet and the other horses.

Comet loves his carrots!

Maybe a little too much Abby was trying to give ka-la, her best friend, carrots but the crowd of horses was a little intimidating. I don't think screaming at them had the effect she was hoping for. They ignored her attempts to scare them away.

Blessing

Here's the little man on his blessing day. I think all of the good pictures of him in his outfit were taken on phones, so naturally they haven't been and probably never will make it to the computer. but this was his little outfit and and he looked pretty dang good, vest in all.

Abby was also very excited about the big day, she got a new outfit too!

She also wanted a picture hold the little guy, I'm not sure what it is with Abby and Trevor's face but she always has to touch it and try to MAKE him look at her. It makes me laugh now, not so much while it's happening.

Sleeping babies always make me happy, of which I didn't much of the night before.

After church Abby was tired and hungry and having her picture taken right then was not something she wanted to have happen. Trevor was the only one doing what everyone else wanted to do, sleep.

It was a great day and I am so thankful to have a husband who is worthy to hold the priesthood. The gospel is the greatest asset we have in our lives, along with our family. We love you guys!