Huntington Beach

After unloading at the hotel, we headed down to the beautiful beach. The kids were so surprised at what they found. "This is the softest sand I've ever felt!" Yelled Ash. The ocean was quite cold but they lived running from the waves. Until RJ got hit by a big one that literally made her do somersaults in the water till her dad grabbed her and pulled her out. She wasn't going in after that- it offended her :).
On the way out we saw some teenagers smoking. Aaron says to me "aren't they a little young to be smoking?" Then we hear Ashton say "Oh the taste, the taste is awful!" I respond with "how do you know that?" Ash says "Cause I fell into it and got some in my mouth!" He was talking about the ocean water. Few!

When RJ was ready to go, "Lets go back to the hellto. " she said. We all giggled.

On Our Way

It's 4:00 am and we pull the kids out of bed. Ashton is sleepily saying "I'm just so excited!"
RJ has on her new neon outfit. She looks like a mini teenager from 1990... So cute! "First one in Disney gets to see the princesses!"
Colten is only concerned about having a pillow and how long till we get to there.

6:15 am- first stop. No one needs to use the restroom... Oh wait yes they do but only after the previous child comes back.

7:53 am- Aaron is listening to a comedic audiobook that explains to aliens what life on earth was like before the human race became extinct, on the iPod. Once Ashton realized he couldn't listen to the end of Harry potter because the iPod was in use he says, "now dad is listening to the goofy stuff, aliens please, that's impossible. "

9:47 am- Hit Arizona.
10:14 am- Nevada.
12:43 pm- California.

1:20 pm- Thank you, I win the alphabet game.

4:30 pm- in our surprisingly nice hotel room. We made it. The kids were great the entire ride. No fighting, minimal "I'm hungrys" were said. We arrived to the 'happiest place on earth' happy. On to the fun....

Speaka Spanish 2

Here are new recordings of Ashton having a conversation with his teacher and another girl in his class. I am so proud of him, he really has picked this up well!

Easter

We had three Easter events this year - the ward Easter egg hunt, which I didn't take pictures of (I need a smaller camera), my niece's blessing and family hunt, and the Jackman family dinner.  Whew, busy day.  Here's some pics from the Reid event, thanks to mom.  Hopefully I can get some pics from my father-in-law for the Jackman stuff.

Mad Hatter

To celebrate the Relief Society's birthday my ward had a Mad Hatter party.  I helped to do the invites, decor, making playing card garlands, mini top hats and giant flowers with eyes.  My favorite item was an alice upside down looking like she was falling into a pot of flowers.  You could only see her tutu and legs.  It was a lot of fun!  Mom came to enjoy the dinner with me.  I made both of our hats for the occasion. 

I Speaka Spanish

Ashton is in a spanish immersion class at school.  The teacher only speaks spanish after lunch and the kids are expected to do the same.  She has told me that Ashton is excelling in spanish, we are very excited about that.  She sent us recordings of Ashton's spanish test - it is so awesome to listen too, we thought we'd share:

Recent Accomplishments

Recently Aaron took a fishing trip to the Four Wind river.  The weather wasn't great but he managed to catch this 12 lb trout.

A Day with Dad

Aaron took the twins for a day out.  They went to do some HVAC work and then went to Scheels to play.

A New Generation

"Sting, Sting, Strike like a Bee!" Ashton made up this cheer for his wrestling club.

Our boys just joined the Stingers wrestling club at Box Elder high school. We're really excited! Aaron is loving going to help - especially the really big boys! He had fun literally throwing them around at today's practice. It made him feel "awesome" :).  I just have fun watching all my boys.

Colten is less thrilled. He's still so little. There is one other boy his age and they wrestle for a minute and then mess around for a bit, then try it again.

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"I don want toooo!"

 We were a little nervous about Ashton liking it but he loves it. There are a lot more boys from our neighborhood on the team than we knew about and Ashton loves it.

 

  His fancy push ups to get strong.

Soccer Dog

This video doesn't do it justice but Harley was actually dribbling and trying to keep the ball from Ash, it was pretty cool to watch.