Harvest

Just some of the veggies we've picked :)

Hurricane Harbor

Monday the boys and I went to Hurricane Harbor with my Mom, my sister Amber and her boys (Kevin and Cody). We had a wonderful time.

Beach Trip

We love the beach :)

Ty playing with the boys in the park before heading through the sand to the beach

our castle (I actually helped this time)

Luke and Ty flying a kite :)

It's a Jungle in Here

Jessica painted the boys play room last week... Ian got to help a little :)

We put Luke's feet prints and Ian's hand prints on the door.

Their bedroom is themed outer space!

Toy Story 3

I took Ian (and my nephew Kevin) to see Toy Story 3 last night....This is only the 2nd time he's been to a movie theater (his first time was to the $1 theater). He really enjoyed it, although he got a little scared when he saw the monkey!

Vegas

My mom, my sister Jessica and I left Friday afternoon for Vegas. Our first stop was the LV airport to pick up Jennifer. We then checked in at our hotel and then headed out for dinner. We ended up eating at the Harley Davidson. After dinner we went back to the hotel and crashed. The next morning we went to M&M world before heading to Massage Envy for our massages. Then we went to lunch at Outback. Afterwards, we gambled a little. Jen and I finished gambling before Mom and Jess so we decided to hit the mall at Caesars. We didn't buy anything, but it was still fun to look. Around 6 we all met up and went to see a show...DIVAS. Super-good. We all had a great time, I'm still trying to figure out where they hid everything (they were men dressed in drag impersonating famous celebrities). We got to see Madonna, Liza, Bette, Cher, and a few others. Then we got all dressed up and headed out on the strip. Around 1am we decided to go into the club that was at our hotel, 40min later we were super-tired and headed to bed. Sunday, we got up and packed our stuff. We checked out of the hotel and headed to the Hooter's Casino. We stayed and gambled there for 2hrs before having lunch at one of their restaurants. Then we dropped Jen off at the airport and headed back to Bakersfield.

Pickin' up Jen at the Airport

Our Drinks at Harley Restaurant

M&M World

Divas show

All dressed up

7th of July

Since the boys didn't get to light their sparklers off on the 3rd we let them light some in our backyard when we got home.

*In Utah, when the 4th of July is on a Sunday, they celebrate either the day before or the day after.

Evelyn Family Reunion (and more)

We started our trip to Provo, Utah on Wednesday, June 30th. Our first stop was at my sister Amber's new house in LaVerkin, Utah. We woke up early the next morning, so we decided to take a little walk and see if we could find some hidden treasures (aka Geocaching). We went to 3 different locations (all within walking distance of Amber's house), but we had no luck at finding the Geocaches.

(left) Luke and Molly (right) one of the Geocaches led us down this pipe and along the Virgin River

We packed up from Amber's around noon on the 1st and headed to our next location, Kenan's house in Hooper, Utah. While we were there, we checked out a few more Geocache locations. We found 4 of the 6 we went out looking for.

Kenan's house

(left) Ian's holding the first Geocache we found (right) another Geocache we found contained a Travel Bug. It originated in Canada and has been to 12 different US states. We are going to put it in a Geocache in CA since it's never been there
Our next stop was at a friend's house (Nolan and Alisa), which we would be staying at until the reunion was over on Sunday. We got to Murray, Utah around 1pm on the 2nd. Since Nolan had to work, we just relaxed a little and let the kids play. We left at 5pm for dinner which was the start of the Evelyn Family Reunion. We had hamburgers and hot dogs, then a game and s'mores.

Base camp for the reunion was at this campground!
Saturday's reunion activities started pretty early, which was great since the kids wake up at 5am. First was the Provo Hot Air Balloon Festival. We didn't get to see all the balloons take off (it got too windy) but we were able to see 3 of them in the air.

After the Balloons we went to base camp for pancake breakfast and then to one of the parks in Provo where they reenacted Ellis Island.

We arrived at base camp around noon. Luke was tired so we took a nap :)

After our naps, we went on a rafting trip down the Provo River with Uncle Robert. The 8miles rafting trip was pretty neat, Ian loved it and Luke cried...well until we flipped and then Luke loved it and Ian wanted off (Ian was a good sport and finished the ride). *don't worry we're all ok, the river was only 4ft deep and we all had life jackets on!

When we got back to camp, drenched from the river, we decided to hike up to Bridal Veil Falls. The walk wasn't very far from camp, But then Ty got this crazy idea to hike UP into the falls. Which I'm glad he did, it was awesome up there and the kids loved playing in the water.

That night we had an awesome chicken dinner, and then left for Nolan and Alisa's. Sunday morning, we were suppose to go check out Temple Square and the Capital Building in Salt Lake before heading to our next destination, but Ian and I came down with the flu (Ty didn't get it until Tuesday morning).

So, around noon (Ian was feeling much better, I was still a bit under the weather), we packed up and headed to Cottonwood Cove, Nevada. We got there around 7pm on Sunday night, so we just ate dinner and went to bed. The next morning, we went out on the River!!! Super fun. My Aunt, Uncle and cousins were there (and Emily's friend Ana). Around noon my Grandparents arrived.

(left) Ian, Luke and Ty (right) Ian, Me, Aunt Tammy and Luke

On Tuesday, we went out on the river for a couple hours while Ty slept a little, then we headed back home...I was so happy to see my bed, and Jaina!

Thanks again to Amber, Kenan, Nolan and Alisa for letting us crash with you 'cause we are too cheap to get a hotel

(and we're so sorry if we got you sick)